What Would You Change about Digg?

I definitely second the suggestion for threaded comments. Right now the general tone of Digg comments is childish at best. Threads might encourage more substantive discussion, provided a slightly more robust comment rating scheme is put in place. I know it sounds like I'm saying "make Digg more like Slashdot" but the Slashdot model works, Digg's is kind of crippled without threads.

I think digg is great and I visit the site everyday. That being said, the only suggestion I have would be this:

FIX/ADD the blogging feature for Typepad Blogs.

I have tried for months to get this feature to work with my typepad blog and so far no luck. I have even emailed digg to tell them that the feature isn't working with Typepad. So far... No Change.

Threaded comments plus a category nomination and selection process. Better dupe handling and search with a digg threshold. A variety of themes would be nice.

The primary problem that digg faces is duplicate stories and spam. I think that there should be a group of moderators who's only job is to check stories for accuracy and relevance, and also to check for duplicates.

I like Digg but sometimes I think they should make you do an IQ test before you can post...

It would be nice if the numbered page links at the bottom were time-based instead of just arbitrary pages. The reasoning for this is that I'm new to digg, but I love the stories so I'm trying to catch up on past posts. I may get to page 25 today, but by tomorrow or next week I can't tell where I left off anymore, without going page by page looking for the last post I viewed.

And being the lazy type, I'd also like a little "open in new window" icon so I don't have to press shift all the time while clicking links. At least that's not an issue at home where I can middle-click. :)

perhaps a persistant link checker so nobody is clicking on dead links...

this could take them down and put them back in when they are up...

a link shouldnt be able to be dug if the it's dead.

DIGG RULES!

And there are many more Digg tools too.
http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/09/complete-digg-tools-collection.html

Digg needs to expand. It's great, and can be applied in a bunch of interesting areas.

I wrote an article yesterday on how an Enterprise Digg could be used to foster innovation in a company.

If 200 people like your idea, the CEO has to listen.

I would also love to see a DiggNews or a DiggPolitics site.

different people, different taste. At the moment the digg community is technology focussed. Why not provide multiple diggs with each a different angle? Each they will draw a different audience, and though one can post a story to multiple diggs, the audience will shift through them and keep the diggs different.

So a digg for technology, one for tupperware fanatics and one about lama races in the Andes for starters. why? because they will draw a completely different audience, of course, and a digg on those subjects are much needed...

you get the point :-)

I'd like to see a colour and/or icon system for the categories. I find some categories more interesting than others, as I'm sure do most other people. I think a colour and icon system would help me find relevant links much faster and easier. Perhaps also make the categories more specific, for example, add "Astronomy" as a separate (or sub-) category to "Science".

How about stop over censoring.

Let's just make digg automatically cross-post any story that makes it on Engadget. I mean, they ALL end up there anyway.

I enjoy digg tremendously, but the incestuous relationship between it and some of the other tech news sites is getting a bit ridiculous.

I hate having to log in each time I launch digg.

Digg needs to organize comments better. Some stories recieve hundreds of comments and it's impractical to read them all, paticularily when people are responding to other comments. A reply feature for comments similar to Slashdot's would be useful, but needs to be unique as not to become another Slashdot clone.