DISQUS

Vlad · 2 years ago

Jim what a great review of oour favorite community. All of that only with one industry. Buh-bye Digg!

HMTKSteve · 2 years ago

Digg was cool until they added the extra categories and all the non-tech folks showed up. What is in place to stop the same thing from happening with BumpZee?

Vlad · 2 years ago

>>Digg was cool until they added the extra categories

Steve,
I personally do not remmeber Digg before they added extra category's. But I do know that it is possible to "game" Digg. BumpZee is still young and I am sure Scott is working hard to prevent it from being gamed. If Digg had only one person like Scott they would still be "cool". ;)

Vlad · 2 years ago

Jim,
When are you going to install the widget so I can bump your posts right from your blog?

jda · 2 years ago

I can get behind the extra-features and easy to use / meaningful widgets, but how will Bumpzee prevent itself from the fate of Digg? If it becomes as big as you suppose it will, it will more than likely run into some of the same problems. The key has to be in limiting - which rarely happens. Either they limit it to a few professional groups which won't bring the desired growth, or it opens up to a new host of categories that create more buzz / growth, but bring in the typical diggers. It seems that anymore web companies are so obsessed with wanting to be the next big thing, they forget how to be the worthwhile niche thing. Hopefully it works out.

And are the widgets really better? The widget in your post says it has 0 bumps, yet in the sidebar 20 bumps are displayed.

Jim Kukral · 2 years ago

@Vlad, installed :)

@jda, How does it prevent the same fate? Because it's not just a "submit and bump" system. First reason, it will work in niches (search, email, blogging, tech), and each set of included blogs will build a community, similar to techmeme. So what you'll have is the people who are feeding the system (the blogs that are included) policing the system on their own, through bumping and dumping of good/bad stuff.

The typical diggers will stay away, why, because it's not the same "feel". People won't be submitting stories, BZ aggregates blog listings, so the content isn't forced into a "diggable story/headline".

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's 1000 times better.

Yes, the widgets are better. Not sure what is up with that counter?

Vlad · 2 years ago

Jim,

If you have downloaded the latest BumpZee widget you may need to configure it via wordpress "Options". You need to enter your API key, which I believe can be found within your account on BumpZee. I think that may be the problem.

scott jangro · 2 years ago

Thanks for the wonderful compliments, Jim.

What's to save it from the same fate as digg? It may not be possible, but I am hoping that what Jim says, smaller communities, will help. It'll be interesting to see, to say the least.

The bump button isn't working because it's not configured. Since this is a WP blog, get the latest plugin, and take a look at the instructions in the options page for putting the button in the posts. Not only will the correct number of bumps show up, but your comments will show up properly as well on BZ.

iTribe · 2 years ago

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pogung177 · 2 years ago

When vote system become more popular, Digg still the pioneer the inovation.

J.B.Slife · 2 years ago

Wow...I was wondering why I joined BUMPzee. This article really makes me feel better about my choice to remove my digg widget and replace it with the BZ button.

Mike L · 2 years ago

I never felt "at home" ( You know what i mean) at digg. Bumpzee is comfortable. Agreed Jim let's see how it does in future.

Disappointed · 1 year ago

I thought so at first too..but then you realize it's not truely a do follow blog community anymore and trying to appeal to every blogger...basically it was growing because of what it was; now it is nothing more than a blogspot spam fest of MFA blogs that don't follow....community has no identity.

IMFreakz · 1 year ago

I think mixx will dominate

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