Some websites are just plain Digg-norant
Yesterday, I decided to sign up for an account at Digg. When I filled in their sign-up form, I noticed that it said they would send me a ‘Welcome’ email after I finished registering, and I would have to click on a special link in that email in order to confirm that I really did want a Digg account. This often happens when you register to join a forum or online community, so I was not at all surprised by it. Their form also says that you have to click on the confirmation email link within 3 days, otherwise your request for an account will not be accepted.
That was yesterday afternoon.
By yesterday evening (six hours later) I had still not received a ‘Welcome’ email from Digg, so I clicked the ‘Lost Password’ box on the Digg site, gave them my email address and requested that they send me an email to confirm my ‘lost’ password. (I hadn’t really lost my password at all, but this method is often a good way to get someone’s attention if they are a bit slow at sending out ‘Welcome’ emails.)
It is now a full 24 hours since I signed up with Digg and I have not had even one email from them. Surely, in the 21st century, it should be possible to send out a confirmation email in less than 24 hours, shouldn’t it? Somehow, though, I can’t believe I am the only one who has had this problem with Digg. But perhaps there is a simple explanation:
Maybe they are just being Digg-norant!
Update:
It’s Monday 18th Feb and the Digg validation email has still not arrived. How rubbish is that?
[…] i wanted to ask whether we can include the comments authors’ url in the recent comments in the sidebar? if yes how? tq
March 19, 2008
As far as I know, this cannot be done. Recent comments in the sidebar usually only shows a snippet of a comment. If a reader is interested, they will click through to read the rest and can use the comment author’s url from there.
Therefore, if you want people to click through to your site, it pays to write interesting comments, doesn’t it?
April 25, 2008