Metafilter and other social media sites are excellent places to learn new things. Yet it's probably true for everyone that most of the world isn't like me and doesn't like the things I like, and I don't have the time to check every topic for interest value. How do you use Metafilter and similar sites to most efficiently find topics/people that interest you? [more inside]
posted by vizsla on Jul 21, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me find a simple web app: Users are able to enter items, other users are able to rate those items, and the aggregated rating score is used to display the items as a ranked list. Like digg/pligg, but without the bells and whistles. The app should be open source and installable on any major server.
posted by lord_yo on Jul 3, 2009 - 2 answers

since Digg changed its algorithm last year, how much influence do the top Diggers have? is it still an oligarchy? I remember reading a lot about how top diggers could easily get their submitted articles to the front page, while the average user could rarely do so. Then in January 08 Digg changed the algorithm to increase the diversity necessary to promote an article to the front page...did this solve most of the problems? Is there still some controversy about it? Are people still abusing digg, and how?
posted by alohaliz on Apr 3, 2009 - 2 answers

I'm trying to figure out if a server I'm working on can withstand being linked to by very high traffic websites. Can anyone tell me the basic traffic characteristics of, say, a front page link from: Drudge Report, Yahoo! Buzz, Huffington Post, Slashdot, Reddit, or Digg? I'm using ab (ApacheBench) and I'd like to have some idea of how many requests, and at what level of concurrency, I should be trying to make this server capable of pushing out. Thanks! [more inside]
posted by evariste on Oct 24, 2008 - 5 answers

I've become bored of digg, slate and reddit. I'd like some substitutes (but not too close of substitutes that I get quickly bored again). [more inside]
posted by survivorman on Nov 15, 2007 - 21 answers

We are in the middle of a redesign of a community voting site - and we're lookng for examples of good voting buttons. [more inside]
posted by Dag Maggot on Jul 31, 2007 - 2 answers

Weirdness with DIGG and IE7 [more inside]
posted by zooropa on May 1, 2007 - 3 answers

I need to set up a community site that also has a Digg-like community news section, and am trying to find open source packages that will do the job. I looked at Pligg, but am wary of using it (reasons inside). I wonder if Drupal will work. Can you folks shed some light? [more inside]
posted by madman on Nov 7, 2006 - 1 answer

You know those little icons for digg, delicious, reddit, etc. that are appearing on blogs and websites practically everywhere now? Which site has the most in a row? Or: What site caters to the most types of social tagging software? [more inside]
posted by mattbucher on Sep 26, 2006 - 5 answers

Diggfilter: I see a lot of digg-like sites out there, and I'm assuming there must be some Open Source software to implement a digg-style social filtering site. What's out there and what's good?
posted by delmoi on Jun 10, 2006 - 2 answers

I'm trying to get into the spirit of "Web 2.0"-ish news sites -- the ones that let users tag, vote on, share and produce their own stories. But contrasted with the fireside feeling of reading blogs, the news-aggregator experience has seemed sort of cold, fragmented and short on users. What hot, promising or lively user-generated news services have you discovered?
posted by johngoren on Apr 19, 2006 - 2 answers

Best open source cms for a digg style review site? For linux based servers. [more inside]
posted by Fishing Nut on Jan 9, 2006 - 5 answers