Digg is dead! Yes Digg is officially dead!

Interesting...what happened? What did digg change that caused this backlash and apparent exodus?

I always figured digg was doomed to die a slow death because of the way buries were so much more unfairly powerful than diggs, but that's an age-old problem. Whatever people are pissed about obviously has to do with new changes to the site though.
 
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Mini-Me said:
Interesting...what happened? What did digg change that caused this backlash and apparent exodus?
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Mainstream media outlets that were handpicked now can autosubmit all of their crap, and it appears like they make up 9 out of 10 articles making the front page.

They got rid of the bury button, and now it is impossible to get rid of anything that sucks.

It is impossible to keep track of friend's activity.

It is almost impossible to keep track of how all of your comments are doing in an efficient manner.


Well, I could add about 20 more things to this list, but I am now at Reddit and am just at Digg to encourage others to leave.
 
I dunno. This reminds me of the carping and bashing that took place at FARK when they modified the format and moved the adult material off it. The old crowd leaves, or gets used to the changes. If there's enough of a new audience that likes the format, then DIGG may continue on.
 
I stopped using digg a year and a half ago. That place turned into a shit hole. They started running it like the government runs their operations. In to the ground. I don't know if Kevin Rose still owns digg but if he does he should have done himself a favor and sold a couple of years ago when they were offering a couple hundred mill.
 
i doubt it, that looks like game over there now, every article has the same abuse trail in the comments
 
libertythor said:
Mainstream media outlets that were handpicked now can autosubmit all of their crap, and it appears like they make up 9 out of 10 articles making the front page.

They got rid of the bury button, and now it is impossible to get rid of anything that sucks.

It is impossible to keep track of friend's activity.

It is almost impossible to keep track of how all of your comments are doing in an efficient manner.


Well, I could add about 20 more things to this list, but I am now at Reddit and am just at Digg to encourage others to leave.
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I have been in reddit for two years. The problem of reddit is the political bias.
 
To be honest, I never heard of digg until 2008 when people were posting articles here on this forum. I don't know anyone else, anywhere, who talks about it or uses it. I've never seen any evidence that digg was ever a difference maker in the movement. I wouldn't notice if digg vanished and I don't believe it would be a bad thing at all. Bye bye digg.
 
Mini-Me said:
I always figured digg was doomed to die a slow death because of the way buries were so much more unfairly powerful than diggs, but that's an age-old problem.
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This was the problem and why I all but stopped using Digg back in early 2008. It's absurd that a Ron Paul article could get like 300 diggs but end up buried and unseen because of like a dozen or so organized haters. Getting rid of 'bury' is a positive.
 
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Interesting...what happened? What did digg change that caused this backlash and apparent exodus?
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I am rarely on Digg so I am not sure if they made it worse but I have been predicting this for a while now and posted it on RPF more than a year ago.

Their model is flawed as the social media has progressed. It was a cool concept when it started, but it is being trumped by the facebook "like" button and news feed as well as twitter. More important to "me" (the ubiquitous me) than what some people on the internet think about an article is what my friends and those I choose to follow think about the article. I get about 50% of my news from facebook these days.
 
I am not really a fan of digg. It seems to still work for me. I never understood why it was ever popular. I still wonder that about twitter.
 
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