[Tfug] Can somebody check something for me?

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 17:26:50 MST 2007


Digg pages lacking that Sony ad are fine.  Those with, suck.
Regardless of other content.

Ghaaaa.

Jim

On 9/10/07, johngalt1 <johngalt1 at uswest.net> wrote:
> Without really answering the question, consider that digg sucks. Their
> comment feature is screwy. digg makes my browser peg at 100%
>
> If you look at comments in digg and there are more than 50, good luck trying
> to find your comment after you post. (at see all comments by date setting)
>
> I'm on a 'doze box right now. digg makes both Firefox and IE peg processor
> resources at 100%..
>
> digg content was better when it was a tech only portal. However, now digg
> sucks.
>
> What are other link aggregator alternatives?
>
> IMO reddit is OK. But it is also prone to ignorant popularity lemmings that
> didn't RTFL as well.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim March" <>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 4:23 PM
> Subject: [Tfug] Can somebody check something for me?
>
>
> > For some reason, when I go to digg.com Firefox (2.0.0.6 on 32bit
> > Ubuntu Feisty) goes creepy-slow.  Process monitor says the Firefox
> > process jumps to as high as 97% load.
> >
> > Yet when I go into the comments on a topic, it's all good.  Gmail is
> > fine, various forums are fine, it's just Digg that bogs me down
> > bigtime.
> >
> > I went so far as to try Swiftfox - it helped a hair but still the same
> > issue.
> >
> > Now I'm trying to see if it's just me?  Maybe it's calling Java and my
> > Java install is insane in the membrane or something...
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Jim
> >
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