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tyg10Oct 1, 2010
Nope. It's not too late. They're working hard to make changes....let's give them time.
jimhobbsOct 1, 2010
I've been a digg user for a long time and I'm not going anywhere. Sure I miss top images and top videos sections hopefully they will be restored.
nihilanth41Oct 2, 2010
Indeed, the site isn't the same without them, but I have faith in the digg developers, and most importantly, the community.
SnecksterOct 2, 2010
I'm less concerned about them getting the nobs and whistles back and more interested in the site not giving me an error every time I try to do anything. It might look like no one is digging anything, maybe they are trying but it won't let them. All I get is errors!
docholiday22Oct 2, 2010
It's too late. The Digg community model has changed, users have flocked else where and this site is just a shadow of what it once was. It might get better in a year and a half but who wants to hang around for that long? In addition to this, we are hearing that Digg core employees have lost faith in Digg and they're moving too - Kevin Rose springs to mind. He's gone at the end of this year.
It's like trying to revive an 80's fashion trend, it had its time and now it's over. The rest of us will slowly realise that it's time to move on.
samwise86Oct 2, 2010
thats my biggest complaint as well
caramba421Oct 1, 2010
I don't really give a s**t about the sections, or the new algorithms, or the lack of the bury button...
I just think the new comments system is ugly and cumbersome, and I'm sure a lot of people feel similarly. If the s**t just *looked* like the old Digg, I'm sure a lot of folks would come back.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rickpdxOct 1, 2010
Not sure. But I do know that I only check it once every couple of days now when before I used to check it almost once an hour! I never heard of Reddit before and now I check it 3 or 4 times a day. I like it way more than Digg.
babywookieOct 1, 2010
Reddit sucks. Why don't you just stay there?
ubercooldaveOct 1, 2010
you checked submissions on digg almost once an hour but never heard of reddit? huh?
daimposterOct 2, 2010
rickpdx has only 166 comments and 33 diggs. That to me means that this user doesn't go to the comments section often and seems to only view the material with little care about digging. I can buy it....maybe.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
refriaireOct 2, 2010
Same here. This is the first time I have been back on Digg in 5 days. I pretty much stay in Reddit the whole day.
mrmoenOct 2, 2010
Logged back in to digg this. I've been around here a number of years so I hate to see it so barren. Still have to get my fix though...
7m7ufOct 2, 2010
I'm there with you -- i used to visit digg all the time, now i check it Maybe once a week. It's kinda sad that they f**ked up, then Kevin acted all douchey about it; acting like it was the errors that were pissing off people. I've never been a power digger and i'd never be one either -- but giving all the power to the publishers which were gaming the system themselves wasn't a good idea either.
I wouldn't call myself a redditor -- but i have been spending a lot of time over there. I've actually submitted a story and it actually got upvoted; i could submit a story here and it would go no where. I'm not going to say that reddit is better then digg; but i would encourage diggers that are disappointed in digg v4 to give reddit a week or two. There are many different styles for reddit, because digg's ui (even the new one, which i don't like) is way better then reddit's, but if you really give it a week or two, you'll be used to the interface and it will grow on you.
rmxzOct 1, 2010
It's not a question of too late or not.
It's a question of willingness.
At any time, they could roll-back to V3[*], and gradually ramp back up to were they were before launching V4. But they don't want to -- presumably because V4 lets them hide articles from their "partners" (which I assume are paid) among articles submitted by users.
I think V4 was a financial decision trying to drive people to paid links off of the site (which both makes digg money and doesn't cost anything), and away from the comments section (which have a cost to digg, and doesn't make money).
Digg has a high page-rank -- higher than many of their media partners -- so I imagine they still get a lot of incoming traffic from google searches for recent news. And the faster they flip those google users to the media partner sites, the more profitable digg is.
What to they care about traffic (== cost), when they could instead focus on flipping google clicks over to media partners as fast as they can.
Sadly, every article bashing digg v4 just increases their pagerank more, encouraging that strategy even further.
[*] - I know Kevin said they couldn't go back to V3 because it couldn't handle the traffic, but thanks to V4, traffic is now way under what V3 handled easily.
whateverhesaidOct 1, 2010
"I know Kevin said they couldn't go back to V3 because it couldn't handle the traffic"
Seemed to handle it a lot better than v4. I've lost count of how many times I've gotten the "We were unable to complete the request" message since moving to v4.
mintOXOct 2, 2010
Wow you just went into this whole "i have my finger on the pluse of digg.com" tirade and tried to sound like an expert but you really have no idea what you are talking about.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
adrianneOct 2, 2010
I actually do like the new page that lets me look at my activity, but I think it could be better. For all the effort to create more of a social networking community I think digg has always fallen short when it comes to keeping track of commenting. One of diggs best features is the comments page, but if you make a comment it just sits there. There isn't an easy way to know if your comment has generated much activity other than just going back and checking. It fails to create a back and forth dialog. Since I don't converse with individuals I'm not really sure why I would want to be connected with other members.
That's where a lot of these efforts to follow and connect people fail. There's no motivation for me to want to do that. Digg works well when the stories have an anonymous mass creating the popularity by sheer numbers. I don't have enough of a community here to give a s**t what a small sample of people care about. I have facebook for that.
I think if they want to go in this direction a lot more has to be addressed about how the community works, but if they do that I'm not sure it's really digg anymore.
/aimless rant
mahlerOct 2, 2010
"Since I don't converse with individuals I'm not really sure why I would want to be connected with other members." - This is a really good point. How can you find people that you find interesting to follow? Right now it's only based on a list somewhere ... or comments that you agree with.
cyber2uallOct 2, 2010
I've eaten turkey... I've been the turkey that was ate. Long story short, I've ate. I'm finally to the point where I would eat anything that's shoveled in front of me. I'll watch your news that's fit to print. I'll get along with the people you want me to. I'll be any color represented on the planet. I'll even be one of those blue people I've seen the the pictures. Just don't make me pay my mortal soul to live in a wood and plaster hut to watch you kill without reason. Maybe I need more education... but my enemy better be as educated as I have been. And if they're as educated an I am, they better be equally armed.
In order to arm you, I have to le you know. I was given parents that cared more deeply than I could ever give respect; I've always believed they didn't give enough. And truth be told, they can't/couldn't. It's a big f**king planet. You can't force me to believe what you believe, no matter how much money you throw at me. You can force me to believe it no matter how little you have given, I was once thrown food in a basement in the seventies (1970s) while getting beaten. That once latest for many years, Did this feed me? Did it shape me? I now share this publicly. Am I alive now? Sure. Am I a whiny bitch? Do I see your response? Only if I bother to look back. Can we ever connect? What does that even mean. It's a big f**king world that's been shrunk to a pinhole. What does karma matter when none of us can hope for barely more than a splatter? It's a big f**king world.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rolfOct 2, 2010
It's been a f**king month already.
blaze03Oct 2, 2010
This is like saying "it's not too late for MySpace to come back."
The internet is always changing...once you blow it, you're done, because internet users move on and don't look back. And Digg blew it.
kploOct 1, 2010
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald declared, "There are no second acts in American lives," but that was before reality TV taught us that, no matter how washed up someone or something is, there's always a chance to regain the spotlight.
TaS291Oct 1, 2010
And history, as it always repeats itself ...
amyvernonOct 1, 2010
So are you comparing Digg to Mickey Rourke?
momsshizzleOct 2, 2010
Yea, Digg will make a comeback in 20 years, just like Mickey Rourke's career.
HoopDoctorsOct 1, 2010
....Don't call it a comeback, been here for years....
esornosoOct 1, 2010
#DiggForever
adesOct 2, 2010
FOREVER ALONE!
wussOct 2, 2010
I've been a digg member since march 2005, roughly 5 months after it opened for business. I've been around the block. I used to follow Kevin during the ZDnet days when his dark tips on the screensaver segments lasted 5 mins and had a viewership of 65.
I'm not going to make some blanket radical statement on whether or not Digg is going to make it or not going to make it. Guess it depends on your definition. Myspace is pretty much internet history, but it still gets millions of visits, so take the definition of failure or success as you will.
But me personally? I've been visiting Digg less and less gradually for well over a year now. No, it's not because of the onslaught of separate content outlets like Facebook or Twitter (which I don't even use), it's because the age old saying that "content is king", and frankly, the content for the last couple years has been absolute s**t.
Digg USED to be a resource. Especially in the tech only days. It build one of the most loyal and knowledgeable user bases of any site in history. IMHO, I think the failure started with opening it up to all topics. I'm not saying it was a bad idea, because it wasn't. What I'm saying is that it was the catalyst to where we are now.
Open up all topics = attract un-focused casual users = s**t content generated = more idiodic and nebulous users = even worst content = MORE unproducitve users = Digg saying "hey, look at all the traffic! let's change the model and sell out! = original core users displeased = Digg with no good users to hold it together and just a bunch of s**t content generating user base.
I used to hit Digg probably 100+ times a day. Now, 3, maybe 4 times a week.. if even.
I'm not sure how much of the v4 decisions were made in house vs controlled by investors, but Digg plainly comes across a stepchild of the internet trying to model itself after the cool kids (Twitter, Facebook, share this, share that, whore s**t content!).
I guess things have come full circle, because I'm exactly where I'm at before Digg was born. Visiting sites manually. Ironically, they're mostly all sites introduced to me through Digg, and honestly, I'm finding that taking content in straight from the source is a lot more rewarding and comprehensive then depending on a bunch of strangers to tell me what's interesting or not.
Ill bet you 5 bucks, web 3.0 is going to be a bunch of people f**king sick of sharing anything and everything, and it's going to be a bunch of websites offering services to lock you in a cave hole for the rest of your life.
sham1969Oct 2, 2010
My profile also goes back to 2005. I hated every redesign at first, but then came around. But this is getting to be too much F-ing work.
nitropyeOct 1, 2010
Loading this page caused an error twice. Lol.
themachine1Oct 1, 2010
Yeah whats up with the errors that force you to reload the page (usually one time to correct it)? I bet if someone wrote a GreaseMonkey script to detect a failure to load error message (various types) and it automatically tried a second time it would remove most of the errors I get on Digg V4.
Closed AccountOct 1, 2010
is greasemonkey allowed of sudden ?
was one of the safest way to a ban b4
themachine1Oct 1, 2010
Not sure how other people were using it in the past but I assume if your not trying to abuse Digg there is no problem with it.
amyvernonOct 1, 2010
Greasemonkey was never banned, just certain scripts that ran off greasemonkey and did automated things on Digg.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
it was generally disallowed when using
automated scripts on digg. - boy gawd !!
if ya'll wear a shorter necktie I won't step on -
or disturb some stinking digg-abuser bastards.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
we WERE talking of digg here right ?
I recommend to leak off my comments
if it is just sucking over basics OKAY ?
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
what next ? I ask for the time and
someone brings up the calendar ?
did somebody use greasemonkey to
have hey kittie in one corner ?? *bleep*
firewall1Oct 2, 2010
I haven't logged into or even come to Digg in many weeks...maybe a month or longer.
The redesign is horrible - where are the Science subsections (space?)
I thought I would stick it out, but the page load errors were the final straw.
niatishOct 1, 2010
Nothing to come back to.. it's a new beast both over and under.
TaS291Oct 1, 2010
First and foremost law of computer science: Never *ever* change a runing system!
Secound law: Every "enhancement" is perceived as an assult by the user
Third law (stressing the first one): If anything appears to work - don't touch it
danbarkerOct 1, 2010
Ive learnt that last law making a game in XNA.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
You are missing the point...The old Digg may have been better...but it WASN'T working. Not in the one way that ALL businesses require. After almost 6 full years, Digg still had not even come CLOSE to turning a profit. And they had no idea how to do so.
rolfOct 2, 2010
Reddit does with far less employess (6 fulltime + 2 parttime iirc vs Digg's 60-80) and servers. Maybe the code is just bad and bloated, it has less functionality than reddits.
Also, they could have seamlessly changed the engine underneath first as phase one and not change the UI at all. That way they could have rolled back to "v3" like interface while having a modern engine still instead of the massive f**kup they created.
These aren't even novel ideas but common sense ones long in the industry.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
Don't talk common sense when it comes to Digg. It was founded and run by guys with ZERO professionalism. Guys who are now in their early 30s who still act like frat boys, which is extremely pathetic.
Anyone who thinks it is still cute to ALWAYS be drinking whenver seen on camera or whatever is not someone who is going to run a successful company. It is just sad that Kevin was never invted to parties when he WAS in college so now he is trying to live that experience when he is far too old to be doing so.
danbarkerOct 1, 2010
Yes, it still gets 1.4(ish) million uniques per day and the buttons are all over the internet. And I'm fully confident that the site will grow again in the very near future.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
Yes...and you are basing that on such expertise. The expertise of a 12 year old. One that needs not show any actual facts to back up his opinions.
danbarkerOct 7, 2010
good.
fakerepublican1Oct 1, 2010
Spring Cleaning...later fairweathers
x9002Oct 1, 2010
Why the hell are you **** still posting on the site? The fastest way to change digg is to deny it page views. f**king idiots
nullcodesOct 1, 2010
Umm, starving them won't work. You can't fix a website on an empty stomach.
decentbOct 1, 2010
Good point, x9002. Now why don't you start by following your own logic and not posting.
nullcodesOct 1, 2010
Why can't they get the old way back ? They need to swallow their pride and switch back. The new digg has so many little things that annoy me and it all adds up. For example when I click someone's profile I can no longer see how long they've been on digg. Also it doesn't show the correct number of prior comments etc. WTF is up with that?
rolfOct 2, 2010
You really want to know why? Here's why:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg
The site peaked in 2007. Since then, interest went down by more than half. Social media ate Digg's lunch.
Investors bought into the site based on a higher valuation and projected growth. It did the exact opposite. They're not happy with the status quo, they lost a metric f**kton of money.
That means the vested interests that run this place will either do radical s**t so it takes off like a rocket (notice Kevin always talkng about having 5x current users or some such while chasing the latest social media fadsite) or plow it into the ground like a 16 year old kid that just got his dad's 20 year old college car.
I suspect the latter will occur.
arschgaudiOct 1, 2010
"As I look back
over my life
I am struck by post
cards
Ruined Snap Shots
faded posters
Of a time, I can't recall"
"This is the end, beautiful friend.
This is the end, my only friend. The end
Of our elaborate plans. The end
Of everything that stands, the end.
No safety or surprise, the end.
I'll never look into your eyes again."Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dannyerisseOct 1, 2010
Anyways... your profile picture is queer.
arschgaudiOct 1, 2010
Well duh...........
cowboy1015Oct 1, 2010
If they are listening... it's just an easy fix.
Swallow your pride and rollback to Digg v3.0!
Because... New DIGG sucks!!!
dannyerisseOct 1, 2010
IMHO, Digg failed as soon as they allowed "followers". The "follow" feature created bubbles and popularity wars rather than the model originally designed.
vigrocoOct 1, 2010
But at least power users no longer drive things.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
Sure they do. Every front page article now is still either circle jerker submitted, or auto-submit spam. What is the difference?
skiingpowder10Oct 1, 2010
Why the fcuk did they change Digg this summer? Change it back!
bravo315Oct 1, 2010
Oh yeah, it'll come back. Digg actually offloaded it's whiniest users when Digg v4 came out and learned not to bend over to big brand publishers at the same time.
In fact, the only annoying people left are the ones that constantly post "NEW DIGG SUCKS" with no feedback.
Thanks Digg for making 4 in the afternoon less boring! :)Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
linuxwesOct 1, 2010
NEW DIGG SUCKS!
anillopOct 1, 2010
New digg SUCKS
auxi217Oct 1, 2010
is never too late for u guys stay put................
cmostOct 1, 2010
The Digg redesign fiasco is a perfect example of the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" I've been using Reddit lately and find that it's a good alternative to Digg.
rolfOct 2, 2010
Reddit adds features all the time. What it doesn't do often is take features away or treat it's user base suspiciously as if we were a bunch of 5 year olds with razor sharp samurai swords. It treats us like adults.
Digg, otoh, has a retarded concept of the bury button where, on a story, 1000 diggs can't undo 50 buries instead of having 1 or 2 or some other sane proportion of diggs counteract each bury. Just like the comment system itself does.
No, Digg has to "fix" bury brigades by taking it completely away when the abuse was caused by their idiotic design in the first place.
The lesson is not to let idiots design the s**t and always test the hell out of it before putting it out there.
tnoyOct 1, 2010
I feel it is far too late. The only thing that could save it this point would be a dramatic change back to something more like v3 and a very public statement about the fact.
I frequented Digg because of the community. I used to end up spending a couple hours a day browsing Digg. Now I probably spend less than 5 minutes.
Also, why does the "Load more" comments button show if there are no more comments to load? That's the kind of bulls**t people program around when they first learn how to program.
bdbrOct 1, 2010
I wish I could digg you twice for that last item. I'm sick of clicking on "load more" and getting an error that there are no more comments to load.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
A good rule of thumb....99% of the time, there is not going to be more comments to load. This isn't the old Digg were threads with 100+ comments is common. When threads are getting just 12 comments, there is no need to load only some at a time.
snowrailOct 2, 2010
I'd guess that the technical reason is that the web page in your browser doesn't know until you click the button if there are comments to display. Since people spend some time reading the comments, quite a bit of time may pass in between loading the page and getting down to the "load more" button. Then when you click the "load more" button, it asks the server for more. If there are some, it renders them, and if not, it gives you the error message. I don't see any efficient way to get around this without losing the functionality.
That said, they could make it so that if there are more message available on load the button could say "load more comments", and if there are not, it could say "check for new comments", or something like that. Someone should suggest this; I'm to lazy to look and see where to post or submit suggestions. A subtle difference that would reduce this irritation.
gmensahOct 1, 2010
It's not too late, Digg needs to try different ways to organize info/feeback onto the site, and mostly make it more seamless, I'm tired of jumping from page to page just to read an article or post a comment.
momo42Oct 1, 2010
I've been an avid fan for so long, this was my home away from home but the more Digg tries to "keep up" the more they fall behind, this is no longer a community it's just a bunch of power users, bury brigades, and advertisers.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
It wasn't your home. It was a website.
tredubzeddOct 1, 2010
The only way Digg will make a comeback is if the users are permitted once again to bury submissions. Without that fundamental user power, the site will continue to provide a slew of uninteresting stories to the Top News section--no amount of (costly) human-moderation will ultimately be able to keep up with improved gaming and spamming techniques.
Also, the artificial Top News Promotion ceiling of one story every ten minutes needs to go. Let the site regain its dynamic fluidity, and the users will return.
linuxwesOct 1, 2010
Digg this comment up. The bury button is the key missing feature and until it comes back Digg won't really be Digg.
batonryeOct 1, 2010
Well, technically, it's the "Digg" button that makes Digg Digg. ;-)
masivemunkeyOct 2, 2010
Totally agree with you. It's extremely frustrating when you go to bury something after reading a s**tty submission and you realize that there is no bury button anymore.
Worst change ever, there was no reason to take it off. Just put it back on Digg engineers and we'll have one less thing to complain about.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
Here is what is funny about he Bury button....And what shows how little the Digg staff knows about its users...or cares.
EVERYONE wants the bury button back. Their talking heads counter by saying that hthe Report button acts pretty much like the old bury button.
So...it doesn'ttake a business major to realize that a simple solution would be to simply RENAME THE REPORT BUTTON! Name it Bury/Report if you want, but bring back the word "Bury" just to satisfy the visitors. They don't even have to change its function if they are telling the truth that Rrport is similar to the Bury button. Just change the name and people will be happy.
Yet they are even too stupid to do that. Stupid or arrogant. Take your pick.
tredubzeddOct 2, 2010
It's much worse than you seem to think. The "Report" button doesn't even remotely resemble what the "Bury" button used to be. Previously (v3), if enough people buried a submission for a specific reason, it popped up on the moderators' radar. Long before that, however, the story would have been removed automatically from the Front Page.
Now, the "Report" button informs the moderators, and the story is removed from the Front Page only if it's found to be offensive.
This subtle--but significant--difference is the main thing standing between Digg and a return to greatness.
snowrailOct 2, 2010
Absolutely. It seems completely bizarre that they'd remove such a button... There's been a lot of junk on the front page that I've wanted to bury -- at an utter minimum they should bring back the button so I could tweak my own site experience if not actually alter whether other users see the story. There seems near universal agreement as to bringing this back so it's odd it hasn't happened. I assume there's an underlying architectural reason to have removed it, but I can't wrap my head around why or what those might be.
tredubzeddOct 2, 2010
If you only care about your own experience, there is the "X" that you can click to hide the story. That only effects your experience, though--it doesn't subtract a vote for the submission, so everyone else still has the same problem.
The "Report" button isn't much better. It simply informs the moderators that you've taken issue with the particular story, for whatever arbitrary reason. If they review the submission, and find it inoffensive, it remains--even if it's completely uninteresting to 90% of the users.
vigrocoOct 1, 2010
Like all social media, it is all about the community. Make the community happy again and a comeback will be easy.
whateverhesaidOct 1, 2010
It's been asked numerous times already but is still worth repeating... why not just revert to v3?
Problem solved.
neonevermoreOct 1, 2010
Possibly because of the change from MySQL to Cassandra.
gamben0Oct 2, 2010
Old digg was being crippled on the old architecture. Kevin has said over and over again it would be impossible to revert back.
bdawg123Oct 2, 2010
"Old digg was being crippled on the old architecture."
Define crippled because in my eyes new digg is way more crippled than old digg ever was. And I'm not talking about features I'm talking about technical stability.
"Kevin has said over and over again it would be impossible to revert back."
Unless they physically destroyed the old source code how is it impossible to revert?
murf07Oct 1, 2010
Not too late in my opinion, it will not be an easy recovery but looks like the Digg team have learned a valuable lesson and are now listening to all feedback.
Digg is my favourite website, really hope v4 evolves into what the community what and with the community the content will follow!
Closed AccountOct 1, 2010
Probably. I just stopped by today to check out the ghost town that was digg. There seems to be little of value left here.
bashnuOct 1, 2010
Here is a good example of digg on the way to making a come back.
See comments.
http://digg.com/news/business/professional_indemnity_insurance_for_mortgage_and_lending_advisors
vtbarreraOct 1, 2010
Nice try spammer!
danbarkerOct 1, 2010
lol... lolcats and more rofl
mrstylzOct 1, 2010
The story and the front page is just utter crap. Once all the users took off seemingly so did the good content. Now it's just a bunch of crappy pictures of cats and ants and digg failure articles.
bivariateOct 1, 2010
No. Digg is back. I just programmed against their new API and I love it ..
dreamtigerOct 1, 2010
Problem is, Digg is no longer interesting. I still check it once or twice a day, hoping for a change, but there's nothing interesting. Digg used to be the place I could get get all the news on one site. Now, there's nothing but boring crap. If this doesn't change, I'll be gone.
drethedogOct 2, 2010
I Concur... Same thing here.....
vondetourOct 1, 2010
all you idiots complaining about the new digg. just think for a moment,if you can.what would it be like if there was no digg.this was Kevin idea its his company so let him run it as he sees fitComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
steviebabyOct 2, 2010
No
bdbrOct 1, 2010
It probably is too late. Digg's active community is what drew many of us here, and that is gone. The front page (Top News) doesn't look all that different than what it used to, but people aren't coming back. Apathy has become the rule now. A comment with 20 thumbs is a top comment. A couple hundred diggs will make something a top item. Most of us just peruse around for a couple of minutes and leave.
ihaveabuOct 1, 2010
This is the first time I've been here in the past few weeks. eh. same old crap
daankragtOct 1, 2010
No, it's not. Maybe it is to late for the old crowd, but who cares. I still like Digg more than Reddit :)
shinkouOct 1, 2010
Maybe it is not too late... but the fact is, I used to visit more than 3 times a day before, and my last visit? It was more than a month ago.
chickenlocoOct 1, 2010
REVERT BACK TO v3 YOU f**kING MORONS!
bgolatOct 1, 2010
No, as long as every story isn't about Digg. Sick of seeing it already.
drtriffidOct 1, 2010
I used to dig Digg until Digg dug itself into this hole. As a casual user, the tweaking process has outlasted my short attention span. Top News used to be interesting, but even today, this is the only link I followed.
I haven't gone to Reddit over this fiasco. I just haven't gone anywhere.
floydthecatOct 1, 2010
It's the rss feed. If A site post an good article i want a digg user to submit it on the Digg site.I dont like how every article a website post is spammed to Digg.
Days before v4 came out I got an article to the front page. I was so happy. Then Digg ruined everything. Not that v3 was perfect the only reason I got to the front page is because I posted a link to my submission under the comment section of a related article already on the front page.
I feel like Digg is turning into a Facebook like site and reddit is still a community forum.
If they want there people back they need to win back our trust. I feel like they sold us out for summa that internet money guy.
chavandoOct 2, 2010
I hate to say it but I am becoming more and more used to Reddit and I have find a lot more interesting stuff in the past days than I have in Digg in the past weeks. Digg is no longer my first site to visit, it has become too dumb and not ha ha dumb or smart as it was before.
Well, off to Reddit, whose format I do not like but I am getting used to.
coinspinnerOct 2, 2010
Definitely a lot more clunky, this here V4.
khirzaskOct 2, 2010
RIP Binky =(
natemartin4Oct 2, 2010
Think of how bad reddit is compared to what digg used to be...this could work.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
Probably. They were given just MONTHS to improve things. And now they have to hope for a miracle just to get things back to the way it WAS...the level that investors were pissed off at in the first place. So, they have a couple months to get back that 30% that was lost...AND make the improvements that the investors demanded in the first palce.
Impossible.
dorkstuff813Oct 2, 2010
First time I've been here since about two days after the change. Went from being my homepage to off of my bookmarks bar. Sad. Still don't really care too much for reddit though.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
im trying to have my account deleted. f**k f**k f**k f**k
kdx200riderOct 2, 2010
The Digg blows!!!! I keep checking back to see if they have improved , but the same disappointment. Considering deleting my account.
blackfrancis027Oct 2, 2010
Come on people have some faith in Kevin!
evildeadashOct 2, 2010
Why should we have faith when Kevin has lost faith in his own damn site? Face it, he wants to move on from Digg and will only stick around until he can leave without being disgraced.
Closed AccountOct 2, 2010
What has he done that has shown that he is worthy of faith? EVERY single thing he has tocuhed has been a failure. The Screen Savers (financially), Pownce and Digg. All miserable failures. He is the least professional person on the planet.
7m7ufOct 2, 2010
Uhh -- you do know that he was trying to blame the outrage on the site's errors and not the site itself? He doesn't listen to his paychecks; that's what we are, just little paychecks to him.