Anyone want to make a "Digg" variant of Drupal?

Posted by jesusphreak on June 9, 2005 at 8:37pm

I'm not sure how many of you are aware of Digg.com.

Basically, its similar to Slashdot in that stories are submitted and moderated by the community. The difference is that the story itself on Digg is just a very simple summary and it links directly back to the article it refers to.

Its very simple, very elegant. Drupal would be suited PERFECTLY for something like this, it just needs a little work.

Anyone interested? I'd like to do something like this for my site, and I'm sure it would be great for the community as a whole.

Thanks

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Also I´m interesting in

Posted by sabbat on October 18, 2005 at 2:14pm

Also I´m interesting in some similar to this web (digg.com). Have somebody any idea?

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si te aburres ya sabes
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I just saw this

Posted by papandrew on December 7, 2005 at 8:27pm

I thought the community might be interested or be able to use it as a starting point:
http://www.talkingpixels.org/diggclone/index.php

The downloadable code:
http://www.talkingpixels.org/diggclone/diggclone.tar.gz

I'm no programmer, but the tar file includes php and sql files. Be curious to know if someone savvy is able to get it up and running and/or determine ways to hook it into Drupal.

I've created a drupal

Posted by startplane on October 20, 2005 at 8:23pm

I've created a drupal website similar in nature to digg (with tags) at http://www.startplane.com

I'd be happy to share the module if others would be interested (I can't make any guarantees about the "cleanliness" tho!).

BTW, I'm pretty sure digg is based off of drupal.

http://www.startplane.com - Community News

Your module have some good

Posted by sabbat on October 21, 2005 at 3:51am

Your module have some good points for me.

but I see it a little confused becouse all news are display in the homepage. It´s posible see only the news with enought number of recoment?

it´s posible combine this module with other?

some similar proyect is in www.SpinSpy.com (check http://drupal.org/node/31662)

I need the script for a spanish site perhaps we can collaborate. do you speak spanish?

si te aburres ya sabes
www.aburridos.info

Hi Sabbat,Yes, I am

Posted by startplane on October 22, 2005 at 12:46am

Hi Sabbat,
Yes, I am planning on adding the ability to only promote stories to the homepage if they get enough recommendations from the sub (tag) pages. I will be implementing tag clouds to facilitate this.

Right now I don't have enough users so it's not that big of an issue. (Feel free to post stories you find interesting for others to comment on). I'm trying to create a community news type website.

I'll make plans to package up the code and release a module once I add the additional features. I hope I can help create an open platform using drupal that alows users to blog and chat from any website to any other website using open apis.

http://www.startplane.com - Community News

By the way, I just visited

Posted by startplane on October 22, 2005 at 12:49am

By the way, I just visited your abburidos site and was very impressed!

Y, si yo hablo un poco. Voy a vistarlo cuando estoy abburido :)

http://www.startplane.com - Community News

Thank for this comment about

Posted by sabbat on October 22, 2005 at 7:20am

Thank for this comment about my web (gracias por el comentario sobre mi web) ;)

and good loock with your proyect
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I am very interested in this module!

Posted by chopcow on November 12, 2005 at 12:43am

Hi Startplane,

I would be very interested in getting my hands on such a module. This is exactly what I've been lookig for. Let me know if it's possible for you to send it to me.

Much thanks!
-chopcow

Which version of Drupal is

Posted by ArunK on November 12, 2005 at 1:23am

Which version of Drupal is installed here and also which tag module is this site running? awTags? folksonomy?

I'm also interested in this

Posted by pamphile on November 23, 2005 at 2:55am

I'm also interested in this digg-like module.

http://goingtochina.com - I love China - Chinese Tourism and Business
http://01Business.com - Business 2 Business Directory

This is precisely what I

Posted by slidenby@techta... on November 24, 2005 at 8:42pm

This is precisely what I have been looking for to extend Drupal for my purposes. I have been a long time user of Drupal and was affraid I was going to have to look at another CMS for the functionality I needed for a new project.

I really love what you have done here and would very much like to have access to the modules you have created.

I see no way to contact you through the Drupal site or your own. I do hope you will let us know should you release your code.

Thanks.

I agree

Posted by mork on November 24, 2005 at 9:26pm

BTW, I'm pretty sure digg is based off of drupal.

I suspect the same. When I first ran across Digg Ithought 'nice to see someone succesfully using Drupal's moderation queue' :)

Also, to the original poster, isn't Drupal digg-like out of the box? What would need to be changed? I don't quite get what your after. They've added some bells and whistles, but drupal's got the moderation queue already built into the core.

I don't think a 'variant' (if you're meaning a fork) is a good idea personally.

Let users create articles in various categories. Have those articles go into the moderation queue. Others vote on it to be promoted to the front page. Is this not possible to achieve simply by correctly config'ing a stock drupal installation?

startplane? is ur site down??

Posted by msksatish on April 8, 2006 at 7:05pm

Startplane?

i cant see u r site up & working..
is it down? can u enable it ?

thanks
MS

Also Keen

Posted by mikejeffs on October 22, 2005 at 3:02am

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I've not actually used drupal before, but I'm essentially looking for something with digg.com fuctionality.

My php skills are very low, but I'm happy to help test anything that gets produced.

http://17dig.com

Posted by mophead on December 2, 2005 at 8:59am

A Chinese digg clone using drupal.

http://17dig.com

Digg Clone

Posted by lincs on March 10, 2006 at 9:26pm

That looks great, from what I can understand of it! Anyone have the code they can send me? I'm doing a fundraising site for a nonprofit charity organization and we could sure use a good Digg plugin for Drupal. Thanks!

Yes lets make one

Posted by Zethris1 on December 2, 2005 at 9:52am

I think a digg module would be great. One step further, if the story gets promoted to your front page, how about if it auto-submits it to digg too. So it's kind of like a second filter for news to go onto digg.

Visit http://www.thinkingpost.net to add your thoughts and ideas to the community.

RSS enabled search

Posted by toemaz on December 5, 2005 at 2:21pm

Does drupal has a RSS enabled search like digg?

For more details, read their post:
http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/digg-search-now-with-rss_26.html

It's a very nice feature I am planning to make myself next year if it is not made yet.

I would be interested. I'm

Posted by Saudi on December 14, 2005 at 10:23pm

I would be interested. I'm considering starting an Arabic website similar to digg. Might pay for such a feature if anybody interested.

I have a half-developed.

Posted by sabbat on December 18, 2005 at 6:38am

I have a half-developed. Contact me if you are interested in purchase a similar code or if you think we can colaborate

si te aburres ya sabes
www.aburridos.info

We can do better than digg!

Posted by greggers on January 7, 2006 at 3:10pm

Hey.

I'm interested in augmenting traditional news structures with democratic/participatory ones.

For this purpose, we can do better than digg.

I have an embryonic outline of a democratic/particpatory news system I have devised here:
http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~gfcoppol/omnicentric/omni_brief.html

Here are two important differences:
1) Readers develop lists of people that they want to "associate" with. The meaning of the word "associate" differs given the application. For example, I could have a list of people whose "diggs" I want to pay attention to. That is, I can develop a list of people with similar interests, and who I trust to only digg quality stories, and only listen to their diggs.

2) The main way that news delivered is not by "diggs" of sorts but by "Portals". How it works is, you would have a list of "Portals". Portals are other readers who "recommend" stories. The difference between the Portal system and the digg system is that you see all the stories "recommended" by all of the people on your Portals list. The stories you see do not depend on a vote count or volume in any way. If one of your "Portals" recommends a story you see it. I think this is an advantage for several reasons. First, it's based on personal relationships, so you find "Portals" that you really like and see every story that they found important. When some "Portal" starts recommending a lot of drivel, you remove him from your list. Also, voter "fraud" (people digging stories they wrote with multiple accounts to gain more attention) will never be an issue.

Also, there are several clever mechanisms to allow Portals lists and the lists of to grow quickly and be edited to maintain quality.

The thing is, I was hoping to build a Napster-like client (instead of a web page) so that certain computations can be distributed to the computers of the readers. I don't know the relevant computer languages but I would be willing to learn them (I study mostly theoretical computer science at my University). Does anyone want to collaborate on such a project?

Good idea but why napster-like?

Posted by robsteranium on July 19, 2007 at 6:12pm

Robin Gower

This is a good idea that addresses the problems with digg that you mention (vote fraud and lack of qualitative digger ranking - i.e. all diggs are equal). I would be interested in collaborating.

I'm not sure why P2P technology is useful. The low barriers to entry into this sort of community-site are vital, requiring a client outside of the browser would surely put people off...

Robin Gower

Vote up/down Package

Posted by frjo on April 23, 2006 at 4:43pm

Vote up/down Package at http://drupal.org/project/voteupdown for Drupal 4.7 (cvs) is an attempt to build a digg.com/reddit.com clone.

Demo site at http://vigillar.se/.

AJAX functionality is used for voting if the browser supports it (using drupal.js included in Druapl 4.7). Bookmarklets are supported for quickly submitting new story links. A number of RSS feeds are available.

Suggestions, bug reports and patches are very appreciated!

Looks cool

Posted by skor on May 16, 2006 at 12:16pm

I like it.
Just a preference, I prefer the side-by-side controls. The above below (especially with the arrows) looks like it's a location control (allow the user to move content up/down the list).

EDIT: Now that I've played with it a bit, it's not so much the above/below vs side-by-side. I guess it's more the arrows as indicators. To me, anyway, they imply location control. I like the thumbs-up/thumbs-down (maybe it's the TIVO owner in me).

Also some alt-text would be helpful for the less tech-savy users.

Great job!

Good to here you like it

Posted by frjo on May 22, 2006 at 10:07am

The function that generate the voting widget is themabel, you can also do a lot with only css and a change of images. The current look is from reddit.com.

If someone contribute alternative looks I will consider including them as options.

The lack of title text (that pop-up when you hover over the arrows) is due to how AJAX is implemented. Turn of JavaScript and you will get title text (Vote up/Vote down by default).

This is a drawback but the benefit are a clean and neat AJAX implementation that cause no problems for clients that can't handle JavaScript.

I'm trying to learn themeing/css

Posted by skor on May 25, 2006 at 2:26am

But for now, I just replaced your arrow images with thumbs up/down images. I've probably leaned enough css now that I could do it that way, but right now I need to look into the actions api/module so I can do some things based on the votes.

vigillar.se

Posted by boytaichi on October 23, 2006 at 6:33pm

hi, i'm trying to see the demo site to decide if i should upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7 to install the up/down package. but i cannot figure out the math problem at the new user sign up because it is not in english. are there other demo sites i can see? thanks, erick

Swedish addition of positive

Posted by frjo on October 24, 2006 at 10:57am

Swedish addition of positive integers closely follows the English style so you should do ok ;-).

Matematik-fråga: Vad är 3 + 10?:
Math question: What is 3 + 10?:

You answer by entering the sum, in this example 13.

When you have an account you can switch language to English.

http://drupal.org/project/voteupdown

Posted by boytaichi on October 29, 2006 at 3:57pm

tried your link http://drupal.org/project/voteupdown. nothing is there. can you tell me where i can down load the module? thanks, erick :-)

Try this

Posted by zoon_unit on October 29, 2006 at 5:21pm

http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down

use this module

Posted by boytaichi on November 7, 2006 at 5:32am

hi, i loaded this module. but i could not figure out how i can rank the news based on the number of votes instead of time stamps. appreciate if you can give me some hint. thanks, erick

Currently not available

Posted by zoon_unit on November 8, 2006 at 5:54pm

The vote_up_down module does not allow you to rank the nodes by number of votes, but you CAN use it in conjunction with the actions module to automatically promote a node to the front page based on number of votes.

I question the pure value of ranking nodes by number of votes. Digg does not do this for obvious reasons. If you rank by number of votes alone, then old but popular articles will dwell at the top of the page for far too long. Digg uses a combination of node date, number of votes and other factors to rank posts.

To accomplish this, you might be able to use the views module. (I plan to experiment with it soon)

yes, if you figured out how

Posted by boytaichi on November 9, 2006 at 6:41pm

yes, if you figured out how to use view, please let me know. i tried views without much luck. i particularly like digg's two folder like view with "popular stories" and "upcoming stories" that user can toggle between the views.

i assume i can use voting_actions to do the "popular stories", and use the regular view for "upcoming". but not sure how to put both up there for people to choose from.

also, the "digg manu" is cool. not sure how to do it.

thanks,
erick

The address has changed to

Posted by frjo on October 29, 2006 at 6:22pm

The address has changed to http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down

Digg like community with Drupal

Posted by StubbyElvis on June 3, 2006 at 7:54pm

I'm intending on doing a Digg like commuity for voting on weird videos on my humor site. Drupal looks a little overwhelming. I'm considering just doing it from scratch in perl since I probably wont need extensive features.

How difficult do you find using Drupal for a project like this?

there is also

Posted by ezichko on October 17, 2006 at 5:30pm

there is also pligg
http://demo.pligg.com/

install and you have a digg clone

new module

Posted by iandit on April 25, 2007 at 5:19pm

There is a new module that enable you to do "digg" like voting system. http://drupal.org/project/drupalit

I saw their demo on www.renmenbi.com and it seems nice. So maybe that would help you guys to do what you intended to achieve.

--
IandIT

currently working on http://www.adluk.com

check out

Posted by secgeek on November 10, 2007 at 3:17pm

check out http://newskicks.com it is using drupal.

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www.secgeeks.com
www.newskicks.com

how do i put highest vote first

Posted by boytaichi on November 8, 2006 at 5:15am

hi, anyone knows
i) how can i list the news in the order of highest vote first?
ii) can vote_up_down not only include story_links, but also stories?
iii) is there an achive module similar to digg.com -- a table list of categories?
thanks,
erick

subscribing :P

Posted by jacauc on December 30, 2006 at 12:55pm

subscribing :P

http://www.dieinter.net

boytaichi: 1) use views to

Posted by patchak on January 12, 2007 at 9:11am

boytaichi:

1) use views to create list of nodes and sort them by voting result

2) yes

3)You can use tags with vote up down module to categorise the links. I use views on my site so that each category has a popular/recent tabs.

see: www.notreactualite.com

patchak

Drupal development

use views to create list of nodes and sort them by voting result

Posted by yipee on February 3, 2007 at 5:14pm

Could you describe how to do this step by step. I cannot find any item on voting result from criteria.

Sheng

tabs

Posted by ola90@drupal.ru on February 22, 2007 at 7:31am

patchak: could you please explain a drupal newbie how to put those tabs on the frontpage (and other pages)?
for example, i want to have tabs for recent posts and most commented posts.

merci!

read

Posted by patchak on February 22, 2007 at 10:20am

read this!

http://drupal.org/node/87195

Hope this helps,
Patchak

Drupal development

thanks

Posted by ola90@drupal.ru on February 23, 2007 at 6:18am

patchak: i have finally figured it out. the problem was that i did not tick the first checkbox ("provide menu") and only ticked "provide menu as tab".

Another question

Posted by ola90@drupal.ru on March 1, 2007 at 5:50am

Patchak: May I bother you with another question: how did you set up the exposed filters so that they provide drop-down menus and not just fields? I could not find that information anywhere.
I want the user to be able to choose if he wants to see all nodes/nodes with rating >= -5/nodes with rating >= 0, etc.

Does anyone have any working

Posted by pcoskat on August 8, 2007 at 3:05pm

Does anyone have any working examples of this?

I want Drupal!

You would have to use the

Posted by patchak on August 17, 2007 at 6:19pm

You would have to use the cck widgets... (multi select as a dropdown for example)...Or simplt use the regulat taxonomy fields.

Drupal development