Welcome to Drigg!
Drigg is a powerful Drupal module written by Tony Mobily, that allows you to promote stories automatically based on your users' votes. Unlike other Drupal and non-drupal solutions, you can do this with amazing simplicity.
For a test site, see: http://www.drigg.org or http://www.fsdaily.com
Drigg was written in partnership with Applicom SRL
This site and this whole project are dedicated to my friend and inspiration Pamela Jones at Groklaw ( http://www.groklaw.net ). She saved the free software world from fools who wanted to steal our hard work. I dedicate Drigg to her because Pamela was my inspiration to work harder. To work better. And then, every now and then, have a deserved rest.
DRIGG: Feature freeze
Posted April 29th, 2008 by admin
Hello everybody,
The current version of Driggi s a disaster. For the next 2 weeks, there will be a strict "feature freeze": only bix fixes will go towards Drigg. [UPDATE: OK, it's no longer a disaster. I fixed the bugs that afflicted so many users. However, the "bugfix only" policy stays]
Right now the Javascript is slightly broken (that needs to be completely fixed) and Drigg is showing problems with IE in terms of IE's cache.
Have a watermark image on videos
Posted April 16th, 2008 by admin
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Watermark on Drigg video uploads
Create a watermark image of a camera or a film-reel, or something like that. Make sure that watermark’s background is transparent. Put that image in your theme’s /img folder. NOTE: make sure that the image is small , like 16x16 or something like that. This is because this watermark image will be displayed ON TOP OFF your video thumbnail, and therefore will not link to the actual video node that you want to watch.
Go to Admin -> Settings -> Drigg -> Embedded Objects and add this where it says “What to show after embedded objects:”:
- admin's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- Read more
What's the best way to sponsor Drigg?
Posted April 12th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
Drigg is a lot of work. Kevin was a godsend, literally. However, the problem remain: what's the best way to sponsor Drigg?
We have a few ideas in the pipeline. Mind you, we don't _need_ sponsorship to develop Drigg. The current codebase is solid and easy to understand, and there are already two more people familiar with its code. So, if I quit tomorrow, the project would slow down - especially initially - but eventually it will pick up again.
However, knowing that I am paid at least a little bit for the work I put in would be nice.
Drigg's 24 hour rewrite complete
Posted April 10th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
Well, it's not quite a rewrite, but the headline got your attention :-D
Basically, Drigg had become a bit of a monster: a 7000 line module, which did pretty much everything - and that was far too much.
I worked all day today (a nice 14 hours, no breaks) to convert the monster into 12 self-contained modules. Drigg makes a _lot_ more sense now; things can be fixed and improved much, much more easily. The codebase looks _very_ different now!
Kevin Mathis joins Drigg development
Posted April 9th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
It's finally happening. More (MUCH needed) developers are finally joining Drigg.
Kevin Mathis is a very skilled programmer who is now officially a Drigg developer. He was granted CVS access last week, and has already started to contribute considerably to the project.
I want to say:
* Thank you Kevin, from me and the community as a whole
* Welcome!
IMPORTANT: Tony Mobily taking 2 weeks off!
Posted March 7th, 2008 by admin
Drigg's developer, Tony Mobily, is taking 2 weeks off after nearly 4 months of continuous development. He will only fix urgent bugs and problems. So, he will not be available from Monday, 10th of March to Sunday, 23rd of March. Feature requests will be unanswered. Tony expects to start working of feature requests when he's back.
Drigg users: please try and help Drigg newbies in the forums. Tony won't be here, and your help at this point will be much appreciated and invaluable.
How to Set Up the RSS Feed Importer
Posted February 24th, 2008 by babblin5
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This tutorial explains how to import news from RSS sources straight into Drigg.
- Go to Admin>Build>Modules
- Enable the Drupal module News Aggregator.
- Enable the Drigg RSS Feed Importer.
- Go to Administer>By Module>Drigg RSS Feeder>Drigg RSS Module General Settings.
- Set the time in seconds which will be used to randomly place scoops into your content.
Add any keywords which will be used to match to imported RSS feed stories, comma seperated, with NO SPACES.
Go to Administer>By Module>Aggregator>News Aggregator. You will see List, Add Category, Add Feed, Settings tabs.
New Drigg released! (1.15)
Posted February 18th, 2008 by admin
Hi,
I've just released the new version of Drigg.
In a nutshell:
* It now uses Drupal 5.7 (yay!)
* It includes the undocumented RSS importer. This had never been used in a production site. Please give it a test and let me knog
* TONS of new youtube-like formats (metacafe, for example [yes, I am a fan of Metacafe])
* Completely new karma infrastructure. This is actually huge... Drigg now has a plug-in architecture for Karma. Now for example it's possible to set the system so that anybody who votes gets 0.1 karma points.
* Bug fixes
So... go get it :-D Remember that if you upgrade you will need to reconfigure the User Karma module.
This was done in about 45 hours in 3 days (Saturday, Sunday and Monday).
Tutorials section now open!
Posted February 13th, 2008 by bohimt
Tony and I are pleased to announced the tutorials section! Visit it and check it out! It will be updated daily!
All the tutorials will be managed by me, Justin Germain, or bohimt.
If you have any questions or tutorial requests please feel free to drop them in the tutorials forum.
Thanks, and happy theming!
Justin
