techcrunch.com— In the debate over whether or not URL shorteners are evil, one service in particular has been singled out: Digg?s new Diggbar. The Diggbar is more than just a URL shortener, but that is one of its main
Apr 9, 2009View in Crawl 4
f**k you, two of my friends died because of this toolbar.>It's funny how people fear change. [...] This makes me almost as mad as everyone saying "I hate the new Facebook!"Hahaha. This is not the same as a facebook redesign.>Who gives a s**t?Me. When a friend of mine posts a link on facebook... it gets the facebook toolbar, AND the digg toolbar. BAM! A significant portion of my page height GONE because of these "useful tools." In-page toolbars are the new browser toolbars. It's not even small. People with smaller screen resolutions are probably much less enthused than you are.Honestly, what I hate most about it is the site growth that the admins surely want to get out of it. Digg is terrible at scaling. This place will soon become the next youtube (as if the comments weren't bad enough these days). Fame and fortune is all the admins are going for, regardless of what the quality of this place becomes. It's an uncomfortable truth.
Evil is kind of a strong word. That being said I've yet to see any major use for it as I'm not a big submitter. As long as the power user issues and having to go through 3 pages to see if you have a duplicate stick around there's really not much use for this bar. Also if there's so much as 1 user lost because of the digg bar you can expect counter measures.
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f**k you, two of my friends died because of this toolbar.>It's funny how people fear change. [...] This makes me almost as mad as everyone saying "I hate the new Facebook!"Hahaha. This is not the same as a facebook redesign.>Who gives a s**t?Me. When a friend of mine posts a link on facebook... it gets the facebook toolbar, AND the digg toolbar. BAM! A significant portion of my page height GONE because of these "useful tools." In-page toolbars are the new browser toolbars. It's not even small. People with smaller screen resolutions are probably much less enthused than you are.Honestly, what I hate most about it is the site growth that the admins surely want to get out of it. Digg is terrible at scaling. This place will soon become the next youtube (as if the comments weren't bad enough these days). Fame and fortune is all the admins are going for, regardless of what the quality of this place becomes. It's an uncomfortable truth.
jstohlerApr 10, 2009
Failbar is failing.
aeronApr 10, 2009
I like it, the short URL is helpful for twitter
ifonlyApr 10, 2009
People gaming Digg for SEO linkbacks are SEETHING.
hcviolenceApr 10, 2009
Evil is kind of a strong word. That being said I've yet to see any major use for it as I'm not a big submitter. As long as the power user issues and having to go through 3 pages to see if you have a duplicate stick around there's really not much use for this bar. Also if there's so much as 1 user lost because of the digg bar you can expect counter measures.