Design Meme

Hello to everyone visiting from Digg.com and Del.icio.us today!

After publishing the X-Ray extension for Firefox last week I wasn’t exactly sure how to let people know about it. I applied to have it listed at addons.mozilla.org, but they’ve recently updated their policies and no longer accept extensions with external update URLs. That meant I’d have to republish the extension, and I hadn’t really wanted to do that unless I was adding some new features as well. So for the time being, mozilla.org wasn’t an option.

This morning I was checking out the new links at digg.com—a great social bookmarking site that’s very nicely designed too—and thought “what the hell—I’ll submit the link and see what happens.” While I figured that submitting a regular blog entry would probably be bad form, and wouldn’t have very many other people “digg” it (bookmark it), I really thought some people might like the new extension. The people I’d mentioned it to over on the blambot forum all seemed to like it, so I set up my new digg profile at and submitted the link.

I thought I’d get a few extra visitors and a little more feedback. I got a ton.

Today, the X-Ray Extension for Firefox was on the Digg.com homepage and currently has almost 1,000 people digging it. Del.icio.us users must have seen the link on Digg, because the extension also made it’s way to the del.icio.us popular page. Even better than the number of visitors was the great feedback. Lots of people emailed to say they liked the extension, and Thom Wetzel was nice enough to suggest a CSS fix for the background on the site! Thanks everyone.