The Slick Network

 

Many people visit the popular social bookmark site called Digg.com .  I find it to be one of the best solutions for finding interesting news articles without having to search around.  One of the most disappointing things about Digg is that once a site becomes popular enough to hit the frontpage, it gets slammed with traffic and often crashes.  This leaves many frontpage stories that lead to error pages.  This leaves me with only one option…to digg the story ,so I can save it to view it later.  I know that digg allows you to undigg stories, so I could digg and then just undigg later.  That just seems like it would eventually just leave thousands of people digging a story that they haven’t even had a chance to read. 

My solution would be to create a “saved bookmark button” without a vote and it could hold those stories in your profile section.   You would then be able to read the article after the craze of the Digg Effect has died down a little.  Once you read the story, you could choose to delete or digg it. 

Below is an example of how it could be incorportated in to the site.

 

 

 

 

 

It is quite a simple solution, but I am sure that the programming behind it is more complex than it seems. Digg is constantly adding wonderful features that ”wow” the users, but this would be a simple solution that could bypass the need to start a service to cache a website for later viewing.  I miss out on getting a chance to see many of the stories that make it to the frontpage , so this would really be a wonderful feature to try out. 

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