Digg’s down?
Those new Digg features might be nice, but I can’t get to the site to check it out.
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December 19th, 2006 at 1:55 am
Yeah I’ve noticed the same, it was up for a few hours I believe, but so far it’s been down about an hour.
December 19th, 2006 at 1:56 am
No luck here in Bangalore either…
Jay. from Bangalore
http://ideaburger.blogspot.com
December 19th, 2006 at 2:18 am
Yup. Seems borked. Worked for a while in the morning but it’s dead now. Rather, there’s a message saying they’ll be back shortly.
December 19th, 2006 at 2:55 am
Seems to be up again, or is it? :)
December 19th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Scoble - when did you post this? 1.44am your local time, or 1:44GMT. This is one of the problems of many webpages/blogging platforms - they don’t appreciate international readers!
Anyway, it’s still down and it’s 1000GMT. That’s a big outage for a big site like Digg.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:02 am
ok I can tell by my last comment (I posted it at 10am in the UK) that your timestamps are all in your local time. I’m going to check on my blog now as I want to make sure all times are displayed in local times for readers.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Doing a quick experiment with WordPress hosted blogs
December 19th, 2006 at 3:51 am
yes its down for more than 3 hours i have been watching. and check this link for what the message was
http://irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=592
December 19th, 2006 at 3:59 am
And it’s back.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:22 am
The new features are nice — but the person who designed the lay-out seems a bit brain-dead. And, the new features and changes seem to have killed the performance of the site. The site is extremely slow.
December 19th, 2006 at 5:32 am
http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Unveils_New_Features_Kevin_s_Blog_Post_Explains_with_Video
here are the over 400 comments by members from today’s homepage topic, most like it - but some a quite cynical and vocal about it. yOu always find an interesting mix or reactions on something like this.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:27 am
I work in the very conservative investor relations technology space. I would love nothing more than to see companies adopt social media and Web 2.0 technologies. There is lots of potential for these new technologies to democratize what has long been a lopsided field where a select few with special access to information profit at the expense of the masses.
So I’ve been trying to promote RSS, blogs and new Web 2.0 technologies and sites to my audience of conservative business types. They’re just now getting interested.
But there’s a big problem.
And that’s the lack of reliability of a lot of the services I see. At the same time that Digg was down, I was getting errors from Technorati and from Blogbeat. This is not unusual.
How can I promote these tools to my audience in all good conscience when I know there’s a chance they’re a) going to be down when my readers try to view them b) they might be out of business in a few weeks or months or c) they have no clue about the needs of big business.
It’s really frustrating because there is so much potential for many of these companies to do some good in the world of finance.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:31 am
I like the new features that were added especially the podcast section. Hopefully it will digg up some interesting new podcasts (no pun intended LOL).
December 19th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
By looking at the domain registration info, it looks like digg is probably hosted at GoDaddy. We also have servers at Godaddy and had an outage today (along with a bunch of sites I visit that are hosted there). Interestingly enough, I can’t find any acknowledgement from them that they were down. How lame.
December 19th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I have also hosted my site at godaddy, and I at times get complaints that the site is quite slow.
http://www.irintech.com/x1
December 27th, 2006 at 6:05 am
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