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techipedia.com — I cannot read this story description here! Digg is a social news site, not Facebook or MySpace. UGH!

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  • tomboy501, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Major first impression issue for me: they've crippled friends submitted stories....the heart of this site. Two clicks away and no description. You have to back out of your profile to surf the site in a normal fashion. All these social upgrades...but, now it's harder to use your friends content feed?
    • radicaldementia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9totally agree, the title alone isn't usually enough to tell me if the story is read-worthy, and I'm not about to start clicking on every single link twice.

      Adding some social networking features like user bios and whatnot isn't going to kill digg, it's up to you if you want to use them. But removing *important* functionality like that will.
      • tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I can see it coming now. 'Friends submitted' is such a pain in the ass now....everyone will starting using the shout feature to spam submissions and get diggs. Lame. Has anyone tried to post digg links in a shout yet? Does it work?
        • tomboy501, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Oh no you didn't ,Chris. Thanks for the shout. I see it works fine :(
    • Albionshores, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Agreed. Surely the lifeblood of Digg was being able to Digg. There have been some cool changes but it is now much harder for a story to get out. The net effect will be to polarize the frontpage. Controversial/suppressed/irregular news will invariably be harder to publicise which DIGG used to be great for.

      • unitedstatians, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I disagree, why do you think shout allows links?
  • spinchange, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The reasoning behind hiding comment replies with AJAX was that It would create much faster page-loads. I'm not sure if that's the case here -or- not, but if it is, I'm sure they can add the ability to display story descriptions in these sections as an option. If it's purely a design decision, than it's a bad one for usability.
  • decepticrat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14It's not a positive change to remove story descriptions from your friends activity list. I'm really having a hard time conjuring up a logical reason for it. I honestly can't think of any. Unfortunately, I am NOT going to click on every single one of my friends submissions just to read each and every description that I previously was able to skim over the course of a few pages.

    I'm sorry but that's WAY too many clicks for a digger with over 320 friends. This will result in me digging A LOT less, and inadvertently skipping stories that may have otherwise caught my interest.

    I'd advise the digg UI team to reconsider this one.
  • graphicspecial, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I just checked the upcoming section for this story's category, and it's not there. Yep, it's been buried.

    Suspicious?... one does wonders.

    I think now would be a great time to use the new SHOUT functionality on digg to tell every one of your friends to digg this deceptively BURIED article.
  • pictureDIGGER, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Digg just wanted to be able to brag about page views for a buyout. If this is a community run site, and majority of the community dislikes it, the site should do what makes the community happy. Digg adding all this functionality will attract that "MySpace, want to be cool on the internet crowd." Which generates lots of ad clicks because most of them are easily tricked... naw, they are retarded. Good move for Kevin Rose, unless there is some kind of change traffic/user wise.
    • ellynet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I totally agree with you. Smooth move in regards to the social site race for user pageviews, but I think it's going to piss off its loyal user base.

      I just invited a couple of friends who visited Digg before but never quite got the gist of it. I'm sure those people will love it now, but personally, I'm frustrated.
  • djmadscribbler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Perhaps the changes to the friends page is an effort to make user actually read the stories instead of just reading the tease and going - "that sounds interesting and my friend dugg it so I'll digg it too". Maybe they thought it would be easier to click the headline and read the article then go two layers down to get the description and the digg on the friends page. That's why I think they did it anyway.
    • graphicspecial, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The problem with your logic is that clicking the headline brings you to the submitted page where the description is, not to the ACTUAL story. So you're forced to click TWICE from your friend's submitted page to get to the ACTUAL story no matter what.
  • ellynet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10MOST IMPORTANTLY, let's not forget the massive amounts of "Unknown Fatal Error", "Digg not submited", and "Session has expired" alerts.

    If my comment goes through this time, it will have been my fourth try.
  • xxxana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3All we need is a "favourite" and "own recent activity", nothing more.
    • tamar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Where would you find new stories then?

      What about the spam that *always* gets put in upcoming? Have you ever seen it? http://digg.com/news/upcoming

      People trust their friends because they can weed out the crap knowing that their friends won't submit it. They don't necessarily Digg everything their friends Digg. But having that system where like-minded individuals can see similar stories is what made Digg popular in the first place.
  • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I consider myself a heavyweight Digg user. I comment more than I submit or Digg for that reason. I us Digg as a forum. I also use the third-party app that tells me how my comments are being received by the public (are my comments being dugg up or dugg down?). That app is now broken because of the change and I feel will prevent me from caring about commenting anymore. The social network Idea is alright (although uses alot of Pownce features and I am a heavyweight Pownce user aswell, so whats the point) I am completely dumbfounded that there is still no instant messaging on digg. It is the pinnacle feature of a social network and right now only Facebook knows what I'm talking about... they don't seem to doing well do they?

    here is the link to that comment app - http://garycarstensen.googlepages.com/comments7.ht ...
    There are only 2 things
    • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Update..the app is slowly working now. some features are missing. I still cannot stress the importance of an inbox though.
    • tamar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's a good app. It better not go anywhere.
      • MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you used to be able to download the .exe. I still have it. Get a hold of me if your interested
  • lunchbox170, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There are some things I like and some things I don't like. I do like that I can now see all the stories I commented on, and when I click on the comment it takes me directly to my comments (finding your comment among 150 comments is next to impossible so thats nice). I kinda like the shout thing, maybe not so much for sending messages but it is nice to be able to send a friend on digg a story with out having to email it to them. The bios and links in the "about me" kinda section thats i dont really care about its not a plus or negatives its just kinda whatever. The uploading photos is stupid as stated this is not facebook so I really dont see the point in that feature. Avatars are nice but we dont need to upload our photos to 900 places on the web. I wish they didnt change my # 1 to favorites i liked how it was called my # 1.
    Thats about it, I dont really use the whole profile/friends thing that much so I dont really care, but i guess if you rely on your friends to get your news this would be a big deal.
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