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How Obama Helped Digg Fix BugsNovember 21

A historic moment in history has occurred with the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. For many, this moment was shared with the digg community that included a furious level of digging and commenting. In fact, election night generated the most traffic and activity in the history of Digg.

At about 8pm PST, most TV networks called the election with Obama as winner. Some interesting stats for the 8pm hour (PST):
Submitting was 108% of normal.
Digging was 202% of normal.
Burying was 137% of normal.
Commenting was 278% of normal.
Comment Digging was 619% of normal.
Comment Burying was 689% of normal.

Note the resulting traffic on one of our DB chains:


Wow. Talk about making the DBAs sweat. If you were on digg at this time you might have noticed a couple of annoying issues. Logging in wasn’t pleasant. Page load times were longer than usual. Digging was… a bit… unresponsive, submitting a new story may have been prone to failure.

If you recall the previous blog from our lead DBA timeless, you’ll remember we have a concept of ’selectors’ where developers will select a pool and purpose f

Next Digg Meetup this Wednesday 11/19 in San FranciscoNovember 17

Hey guys -

The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year. Come raise a pint, take a picture or two in the Photoboof, and hear some cool announcements - the perfect way to spend your Wednesday night. In case you haven’t had a chance to attend one of these events, check out some of the footage from our Meetup a few weeks back in London.

We’re also excited to announce some more dates and cities for future Meetups. In the first few months of 2009, we’re heading to LA, Austin, and Seattle - details on the venues and other 2009 events coming soon. As always, for all the latest up-to-date information, make sure to keep an eye on our Meetups page.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon,

Kevin

Call for Questions: Digg Townhall next TuesdayNovember 13

Hey Everyone,

Our next Townhall meeting is Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm ET/5pm PT and we’d like to hear from you. Similar to past Townhalls, you submit and vote up the questions and topics you would like to see answered. Jay and I will then address the most popular questions from the community live via webcast here on the Townhall page. It will also be available to view anytime afterwards.

It’s been a crazy few months here at Digg and I’m sure we’ll have lots to talk about. So, please submit and digg up your favorite questions in this thread.

Looking forward to a great discussion,

Kevin

New Digg Store Wants to Hear From YouNovember 11

The newly remodeled Digg Shop is now open for business! We’ve updated our most popular hoodies and tees, and added new styles, colors and other cool stuff. Also added are laptop messenger bags, 1337 Digg t-shirts and boxer shorts.

If you have more good ideas for new t-shirt designs, we want to hear about them. So, post your designs and ideas in the comments.

Thanks,
Matt

Digg Dialogg with Al Gore & Election Week Follow-UpNovember 10

Hey All,

Last week, former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore was our second Digg Dialogg guest. For those of you who didn’t catch the program on Current TV this weekend, you can watch it online here and at Current. The Digg community submitted over 1,000 questions, ranging topics from the election to Al Gore’s Twitter account. We’ve included a quick highlight below (the full version is available at the links above).

Last week’s election was definitely one of historic proportions and many folks joined us for the Election Night party, hosted by Digg and Current. It was Digg’s highest traffic day in history and a historic day for democratized media. I want to personally thank all of you for helping Digg and the community be part of such a memorable presidential election.

Thanks,

-Jay