Democraticunderground.com is a self-proclaimed left-wing website and "represents a variety of progressive viewpoints". The home page displays news stories and politically-themed video clips that have been submitted by staff members and registered users from other news sources. Each article contains a link to discussion comments that have been posted and a link to the original source. The number of discussion posts is also displayed. Discussion post links displaying the number of posts are also shown for the video clips.
Members may create journals to highlight favorite personal discussion posts and create direct blog-style posts. A sampling of journal posts are displayed in a sidebar on the home page. Links are also available for the most recently updated, newest and most viewed this week journals. Other home page features include link lists to site groups and various forum threads. Forum links are listed by 'Top Forums', by topic and by state & country.
'The Top Ten Conservative Idiots' journal is a weekly feature on this siteThe page for this list may be accessed from the home page. The lists are listed by date and by post number. Users may nominate conservatives for this list via email. Users may also submit original content articles for this site. A link to requirements for article submissions is found on the site's 'About' page.