Dear Digg #1

My first “Dear Digg” was a smashing success.  It’s now climbing it’s way up the “Most Popular” charts, after having been frontpaged and heavily dugg.

I’m going to do a “Dear Digg” every few days to focus on areas where the site can be improved with almost no effort.

 Dear Digg #1

A very simple request, just do an http request of Coral Cache on stories that are about to be frontpaged.  There’s no better time to do it than when the digg servers are changing it’s status from “whatever” to “frontpaged”.

 2 lines of code, done.  Adding a link to the CC version should be as simple as editing an included file and distributing it to each of their web servers – the CC version of a domain is just adding “.nyud.net:8080″ to the url, for instance http://www.wordpress.com/ becomes http://www.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8080/.

With luck some of my suggestions, and I’m full of them, will be implemented.  Despite what I might write about digg, and despite my dislike for most of the users, I do like using the site and I waste loads of time on it.