Sunday, August 29, 2010

The new Digg sucks

So, what's up Kevin?  Why the changes?  Do you have to keep up with the social movement that badly to lose some of the features and usability the site had?  I've been a member since the site switched over to the "new" style in mid 2005.  (*Somewhere around Aug/Sep 2005).  That said, I'm pretty familiar with the site and how it worked.  Here's why the new digg sucks:

  1. Where are my links?  Where are the stories I've been "digging" for the last 5 years?!?!? WTF??
  2. What is with the Twitter style, "Load More"??  I mean, Digg, you set the standard for "Next" and Pagination buttons.  So many sites use the Digg style pagination buttons.  Google reports 80,000 articles related to "Digg style pagination".  You used to set the standard, now you're following another.
    1. The page buttons allowed me, and a lot of other users to see how much news we've missed since our last visit.
  3. What happened to "open links in new tab"?
  4. Not everybody is into the social networking movement!  While I can't deny that 500MM people is anything to ignore, there are a lot of people that don't have a facebook account, a twitter account or other inane social networking crap.
I'm taking the digg newsfeed off this blog and I'm off to reddit.

Update 9/1/10: It seems I'm not the only one that was displeased with the new Digg.  This TIME article talks about how the users lashed out and moved to Reddit.  According to the article, Reddit is loving it and even updated their logo to look like Digg's.  Or at least make fun of "digging" to make the reddit alien look dirty and holding a shovel.  And what I consider to be the funniest thing, one of the Digg users created a feed to autopopulate Reddit articles on Digg which in turn allowed reddit to take over the digg home page.  Comedy.

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