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I'm no Digg apologist, I was very critical of them prior to the launch and certainly after, but at this point I would rather be an optimist than join the crowd of whiners, moaners and troll who are doing their best to take advantage of the situation, mainly to drive traffic to other sites. Digg is most definitely listening, and they know there are major concerns and problems or else they would not have fired their lead engineer today. Kevin said today that they are working as quickly as possibly to implement other/older features, but the primary focus at this point is stabilizing the site. We saw the big bounce up when the new version launched and now we are seeing the steady fall in page views, but at some point, that will likely level off. As improvements are made, those stats will improve, some older users will return and new ones will take the place of those who don't.

While Digg is not what I would call "user friendly", the group of people who do nothing to make it better by submitting and digging good content or contribute meaningful comments, yet simply post crap like "digg sucks", "f**k digg", etc. don't care about Digg. Most of them either gave up on Digg or never cared about it to begin with--and plenty of them are from Reddit.

If you are a Digg user who cares, do what you can to contribute now. If you have suggestions or identify problems let Digg know. Keep submitting content, digging and commenting. Digg might never get back to where it was, but it can only get better from where it is now if people try.

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