Current Issues + Next Steps

Hello, friends! 👋

Forest here. For those who are new here and don’t know me, I lead Product + Community at Digg.

First, I want to start by thanking you for being here. We’re grateful you’re with us and appreciate you sticking it out while things are a little rocky at the beginning of our Public Beta.

The team we’ve assembled cares deeply about making Digg a place where communities can form and flourish, and where people can have meaningful conversations with and about the people, places, and things they care about most.

We also want to call out that we’re seein’ a lot of genuinely great communities take shape already. Shout out , , , and !

Second, I want to give you an update on a few things and address some of the questions I’ve been gettin’ over the last few days. I try to get back to everyone who @mentions me, but I’m sure I’ve missed a few.

Releasing Unused Communities

We’ve noticed that quite a few prime community slugs have been claimed and have little or no activity. Any communities that remain inactive will be returned to the wild sometime over the next week or so. This will allow those who are genuinely interested in developing spaces around those topics to claim them.

We’ll eventually have a formal policy for reassigning abandoned communities, including a clear definition of what “abandoned” means. In the meantime, rest assured that we have no intention of allowing people to squat on communities without genuine plans to grow + manage them.

Releasing Unused Profiles + Addressing Multiple Accounts

Some killer usernames were claimed by folks whose behavior made it clear they had no intention of engaging genuinely on the platform and they’ve since been removed.

We’re also actively monitoring users with multiple accounts and implementing solutions to identify + remove them faster. Some of these accounts were created to get around the two-community-per-user limit.

Those will be released and made available to new users as well.

Day One Community Creation

Over the next day or so, we’ll be rolling out changes that require user accounts to be at least seven days old before the user can create a community. This won’t be an immediate fix-all. We’ll continue evolving this approach over time, including factoring in things like account activity to ensure that only engaged users are able to create a community.

Spam

We’re actively implementing solutions to reduce the amount of spam on the platform. Right now, the service we’re using to detect spam is a bit strict in some cases and is automatically moderating posts that shouldn’t be. I know it’s frustrating to craft a post that isn’t spam and have it moderated, and I want to assure you this is a top priority for us. More to come on this.

As always, if you have questions, need clarification on any of the above, or are running into issues not listed here, please let me know in the comments.

Over and out,