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Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

knud — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:48:45 -0000

I am working on a site which try to solve many of the problems with digg.com.
You can find it on http://crowdnews.eu.

The main problem with digg is the voting system.
When only top voted stories get on the front page it has
to be a subject that many can relate to,
which result in stories with a low information content.

http://crowdnews.eu solves this by using sharing instead of voting.
Every have a personal news page on which they can subscribe to other users and when those users share stories they will appear on the personal news page.

Crowdnews

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Joanne — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:51:11 -0000

Just for fun I decided to Digg this article. Guess what - the word must be out - "Cool this story has been submitted"
There was only one story and completely unrelated. It only had one Digg.
Seems like someone is manipulating Digg

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Website Marketing — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:20:41 -0000

I still don't know if I like the new style of Digg or how it works. I have'nt decided yet.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

tamar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:11:51 -0000

Actually, the question is "what happened in September?"

The answer is in the post. I hope you read it.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

oil painting photo — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:08:35 -0000

I wasnt really expecting this post. In one of the magazines Ive read, Digg has been held as topnotch social bookmarking site. But what happened now?

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

John X — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:53:14 -0000

I woke up this morning to find out Digg had unreasonably blocked me. When I tried login in to my account I got this unexpected message: Digg Hates you.

http://ezapples.com/Home/ta...

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

tamar — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:23:48 -0000

Baby: this is actually a somewhat outdated post (Digg fixed problem #3 about 3 weeks ago). The issues are a bit different now. :)

In my experience, usually the first story was submitted by my friends since they're so adamant about using Digg and timing their schedules around when stories get published. Now, I honestly don't use Digg much anymore (and I'm out of town so I don't even know what happened at the town hall meeting on Monday) but there's a serious desire to be the first submitter of the stories that are posted on a regular schedule, and guess what? My friends typically do it. Is choosing to vote for them crude nepotism or is that just a matter of serious Digg addiction? I think it's the latter and that you don't understand the mindset of those hardcore users. I can't blame you because I've been there too.

If you've read any of my other submissions, I admit that I networked with people on Digg because their submissions were interesting to me. That's why Digg is a social news site and not just a traditional voting site that has absolutely no social influence.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

baby — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:37:30 -0000

I agree with you on the first two points. We really don't need a new facebook, or new messenger service. I'm sick of those things. Just because it's the trend, doesn't make it cool, and it doesn't mean you need to implement it. It simply means that someone else implemented it. But, you should stick to what you do best. So, they should stick to social networking.
I disagree with point 3 because what I think they're trying to force you to do is digg the STORY, not your FRIEND'S stories. The latter has resulted in Digg becoming a social hangout for a select few who always get their stories on the top 10. Digg is trying to find a way to prevent this crude form of nepotism.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Research Guy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:08:03 -0000

Yep - I think you are right on again..

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

jessie — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:55:03 -0000

well for me, I haven't used Digg as much as i wanted to when i singed up. actually, i find a lot of people there rude. sorry, no offense meant.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

trademark registration — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:45:45 -0000

Im not exactly jumping for joy about many of the new Digg changes, but it will likely make things more accessible for the casual user.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Erika — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:15:55 -0000

Interesting thoughts about the "new Digg." They are now trying to increase clicks from Friend pages to articles so they can generate more views on the advertisements. Its all about impressions these days baby!

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

shawn — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:23:17 -0000

Just wanted to say; I was a digger when digg first went live, now it is just a joke. I read, but I do not digg.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

OliviaHoman — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:35 -0000

Why? DiggLeague, I couldnt agree... Not every .blogspot URL is SPAM .

In any case I want track and vote my friends.
I not like current changes in digg.com
:(

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Judah Gutwein — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:11:45 -0000

I'd really like to weigh in here...

I was introduced to Digg by Tamar (of www.techipedia.com) some time ago.

This was before Tamar became a "staple" on the Digg network.

Our company manufactures and sells diamonds and jewelry on the Internet, so I was excited about the prospect of joining this unique social community.

The "old Digg" was great; interesting and informative, easy and accessible.

If I liked something, I could go from " 0 - 60" in two seconds and "Digg" the post..ETC.

However, today's "improved" Digg ABSOLUTELY STINKS!!

I just checked in today for the first time in a while and was surprised by how much I hated these new changes..AND I AM A RELATIVELY INFREQUENT USER.

The new Digg is cumbersome, tedious, hard to navigate, too time consuming and a total slap in the face to all the people who catually made Digg waht it is today.

You have to go through multiple steps to Digg a posting, you cannot see what your community is discussing...IT STINKS!

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Charbarred — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:52:12 -0000

Plime is quite a hostile environment but quite interesting nontheless

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Ian — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:30:40 -0000

I agree with all three. I'm checking in to several other site distribution sites and so far I'm saying www.plime.com looks the most interesting. It's a shame that sites have to change so much...

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Charbarred — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:36:19 -0000

Bottom line, web sites are measured by page views, they've just found a way to create tons of page loads. More so, you are most likely to click on ads now that you are actually visiting the pages. In other words they screwed the users over to get more money.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

tamar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:26:29 -0000

Anonymous: this may come as a shock to you, but I thought so once before until I actually started using the service.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:15:13 -0000

This may come as a shock to you, but digg has always been bad.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Alister Cameron // Blogologist — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:39:08 -0000

Tamar,

I guess I have come full circle with Digg. I was fascinated with it for a while there, but I can't take it seriously any more. I have this huge blog post I've mostly compelted, where I liken it to a game. The post is long as, and to be honest I can't be bothered completing it.

Digg to me is such a waste of time. I mean, the traffic is huge, IF you don't get buried -- and I usually do -- and the kinds of people who come by leave again as fast as they got there.

I'd rather be focussed on compelling content and relationships with the ProBloggers, Smashing Magazines and LifeHackers of this world, where at least the traffic is "qualified" and interested.

I really don't care much any more what Kevin Rose does...

He's never done anything for me. I mean, where's the marketing category in Digg? He's never bothered to give our entire industry one! And yet he creates one for the here-today-gone-tomorrow Presidential election!??!

It's a load of crap, and about time we all stood up and said so.

While I'm not enamoured by the while voted news site model, I think I've got more time for Sphinn. But I haven't even been there lately, either.

Sorry. Just so over it at the moment!!

-Alister

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

webaddict — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:50:13 -0000

Well, as pathetic as it sounds today is slightly depressing. I really really liked Digg and was enjoying it more every day. I was able to find great stories from friends that had the same interests. All this talk about more usability and more friend abilities are just TREMENDOUS time wasters. Digg already loaded slow enough... Now you have to click all over in friends just to Digg a story. I was an avid user and my desire to use Digg is deflating like a 3 day old birthday balloon. I guess I'm going to search for some of the things I liked in Digg over at Reddit and Stumble. :(

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Urbanist — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:55:27 -0000

The new Digg will have a higher Alexa rank - great for Digg, sucky for all the users who don't want to mill about aimlessly forever trying to figure out where stories are they want to check out.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Glen Allsopp — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:50:51 -0000

Really hate the new look, no longer can I digg stories that my friends like quickly, as many people have said it should be about usability.

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

blah — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:18:06 -0000

I actually started using reddit over digg when i noticed where digg was going, but now reddit is becoming the same thing. the idea of social news sites is what we need with our sterile gov't propped MSM as the only source of news, but now these social news sites are all becoming the haven of childish internet 'memes' and chit chatting between users on a public forum. note to reddit users: Don't post your damn comments as news, write a damn article and submit it to reddit.

anyway, with anonymity comes immaturity in the internet age, and that's what eventually dominates these situations, i wish there was some way around it but the internet will never become the information tool which it was once envisioned as.