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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Unknown Target on August 28, 2010, 11:01:57 am

Title: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Unknown Target on August 28, 2010, 11:01:57 am: As some of you may know, Digg has launched a "V4" of it's social news site. Any thoughts or opinions on this?

Personally, the auto-submit of major news sites is what's really gotten me. I scroll down the front page and there's only one of maybe 20-30 submissions that's not from a major site. Yuck. :(
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Turambar on August 28, 2010, 11:03:42 am: not a fan
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Sushi on August 28, 2010, 01:27:16 pm: It's a steaming pile.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Kusanagi on August 28, 2010, 01:36:48 pm: It really, really sucks.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: S-99 on August 28, 2010, 05:02:40 pm: All the people who like to censor things will bury your submitted story fast. People trying to get their story as number one on the site is no longer the purpose. Digg today is all about this new repurposing.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Mongoose on August 28, 2010, 09:18:26 pm: Can't say I've ever used Digg in the first place.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Aardwolf on August 28, 2010, 10:55:43 pm: Speaking of "the new ___", does anybody remember "cuil" ?
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 28, 2010, 11:07:59 pm: Quote from: Sushi on August 28, 2010, 01:27:16 pm
It's a steaming pile.

It was always a steaming pile.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Snail on August 28, 2010, 11:24:54 pm: Quote from: Aardwolf on August 28, 2010, 10:55:43 pm
Speaking of "the new ___", does anybody remember "cuil" ?
Yeah. Two letters away from fail.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: S-99 on August 29, 2010, 02:43:35 am: Not joking about the digg censorship (http://blogs.alternet.org/oleoleolson/2010/08/05/massive-censorship-of-digg-uncovered/).

Blame the digg patriots.

All that whole thing with the digg censorship put forth was that anybody with some friends could be very successful at keeping stuff from appearing on digg.

I never used digg before, but the whole thing is now abused and sucks and will now never be unabused.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Sushi on August 29, 2010, 03:12:02 pm: Digg was good back when it was mostly tech-oriented, before every other article was "GLEN BECK IS SECRETLY GAY" or "OBAMA: KENYAN SPY OR TERRORIST SLEEPER AGENT?" As popularity went up, incentive (and ability) to game it for stupid politics went up as well. Meanwhile, the website continued to get more ugly, less usable, and more like Facebook with every version.

The only reason I stuck with it until this week was that there simply isn't anything better. There still isn't, but now it's just turned into RSS+Facebook, and lost what value it still had to me.
Title: Re: So...the new Digg?
Post by: Unknown Target on August 29, 2010, 03:15:13 pm: There's a Digg v3 skin for Reddit, which makes it not ugly enough for me to finally use. Wish the users were less full of themselves though.