[Unknown Target]

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.

[Turambar]

not a fan

[Sushi]

It's a steaming pile.

[Kusanagi]

It really, really sucks.

[S-99]

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.

[Mongoose]

Can't say I've ever used Digg in the first place.

[Aardwolf]

Speaking of "the new ___", does anybody remember "cuil" ?

[NGTM-1R]

It's a steaming pile.

It was always a steaming pile.

[Snail]

Speaking of "the new ___", does anybody remember "cuil" ?

Yeah. Two letters away from fail.

[S-99]

Not joking about the digg censorship.

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.

[Sushi]

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.

[Unknown Target]

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.