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How does the new Digg suck? Let me count the ways:

The Upcoming section is gone, requiring "following" of sites and users to see unpromoted content.

Mainstream media outlets and power users have been given even more power over the front page than regular users, which is the opposite of what needed to happen.

The default homepage is now this "My News" garbage, and cannot be changed.

All your favorites have been deleted.

Comments from you and your friends automatically pre-empt the main discussion.

The yellow/green highlighting of your and your friends' comments is gone.

You can't view all comments at once. If there are hundreds, you can't view all of them, period.

The comment box is three lines high, not resizable, and types out light blue text on white.

Links to comments point the wrong way, and use longer, more confusing URLs.

Editing a comment with a truncated URL breaks the URL.

Timestamps have been removed from the main page and all search results.

The bury button is gone.

The report button is gone.

Historical submissions, like the Obama victory thread, the original iPhone announcement, the HD-DVD key scandal, etc., have had their digg counts reset and their comment sections mangled.

The color scheme has changed, junking the site's characteristic blue/yellow/green navigation bar for almost pure white.

The iconic thumbs up/down have been replaced with generic arrows.

Browsing a user's comment history, including your own, is frustratingly hard.

All usernames are now lower-case (except for mine, and only because I contacted support about it).

The RSS feeds no longer work.

All third-party tools that used the old Digg API are now broken.

Feel free to add your own and repost.

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