Digg’s App Kills Engagement

Digg’s mobile app isn’t driving engagement—it’s driving me away. Truncated titles get cut off mid-thought, thumbnails shove substance aside, and the layout feels like a spreadsheet, not a feed. It encourages snap judgments over thoughtful reading: I want to scroll, preview the first third of a post, and engage without clicking out of the flow. Instead, it disconnects me, rewarding headlines and tiny images while de-incentivizing depth.

Other platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn nail seamless immersion—you can actually finish an article without breaking stride. They’ve “scientifically perfected” dooms crolling, but in trying to avoid that extreme, Digg swung too far the other way: shallow, disjointed engagement that kills deeper interaction. I advocate for non-algorithmic feeds to cut through content farming, but this isn’t it. Unsorted content pushes unsorted chaos, and without notifications or incentives to return, why bother?

I’m giving honest feedback because I believed in Digg. This is my final warning: adapt to foster real, thoughtful interaction, or users like me will move on. Loyalty alone isn’t enough.

What fixes would you suggest?