Digg is dead! Yes Digg is officially dead!

[libertythor]

Read the comments on this front page post.



http://digg.com/news/world_news/why_christmas_island_crabs_dash_for_the_beach


Now look at how many Diggs the front page subs have been getting since last night.

http://digg.com/news

You may have to refresh the link a few times to get it to load!

[Andrew-Austin]

Hey you are right, it really sucks balls now.

[Mini-Me]

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.

[libertythor]

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

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.

[libertythor]

A lot of you guys were hoping for Digg's demise. Now is the time to celebrate it.

[MozoVote]

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.

[roho76]

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.

[doggings]

i doubt it, that looks like game over there now, every article has the same abuse trail in the comments

[libertythor]

Hitler comments on the new Digg!

YouTube - The Downfall of Digg (Hitler doesn't approve) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUjJmF-Rdoc)

[hugolp]

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 have been in reddit for two years. The problem of reddit is the political bias.

[Matthew Zak]

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.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

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.

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.

[WaltM]

all good things become sellouts

[silus]

I never actually understood or used Digg... God i'm getting old.

[rprprs]

I never actually understood or used Digg... God i'm getting old.

ditto :(

[BlackTerrel]

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

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.

[RonPaulwillWin]

Digg script for reddit. You're welcome.

Edit: A link would be nice http://userstyles.org/styles/35197

[speciallyblend]

digg got dugg and buried! i stopped using them months ago!

[WaltM]

digg labs doesn't work anymore? yeah, they lost me!

[libertybrewcity]

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.

[kahless]

Digg is one of the top social networking leftist propaganda site dominated by operatives from the DNC. It was about as effective as Radio Moscow during the Soviet era. Basically a joke. Nothing to see here, move on.

[libertythor]

Update! The front page hasn't been updated in several hours! Digg is now in paralysis and there are mass bannings of the worst critic.

[MozoVote]

I see this kind of like when a radio station changes formats. You get angry calls for a week, maybe a few nuts that harrass the station for a month - but it dies down and a new audience takes over.

That's not to say that the new audience will be as large, or that Digg will succeed, however.

[UtahApocalypse]

Digg led me to Ron Paul due to ABC censoring the comments after the first debate. With the new system in place i would have never found that article because there is no "front page" now unless you follow feeds just like a RSS reader

[libertythor]

That is true, but it is certain that the new audience won't be enough. Who is going to spend that much time or use a glorified RSS feed as much as they used the old Digg.

Digg has about $100 million dollars in investments to answer for!

Update! Only 4 articles have hit the front page today because hardly anybody is digging.



I see this kind of like when a radio station changes formats. You get angry calls for a week, maybe a few nuts that harrass the station for a month - but it dies down and a new audience takes over.

That's not to say that the new audience will be as large, or that Digg will succeed, however.

[Jordan]

Digg has been unprofitable for a long time. Once the VC money is gone, it'll be dead for good.

[libertythor]

Update: The site is getting super-spammed with goatse links, porn, and reddit articles are being gamed to the front page.

It looks like it is curtains for Digg. There is so much spamming going on that it takes forever to ban people.

[Bluedevil]

Check out Socratic News: www.socraticnews.com

It is similar to Digg technology wise, but is focused on politics and economics.


For full disclosure, I founded the website. I am not making any money off it, just got fed up with the news and decided to try and do something about it. If anyone has any suggestions about how to improve it, I would really appreciate it.

[Bluedevil]

accidentially submitted twice, can't figure out how to delete this. sorry about that.

[WaltM]

Digg has been unprofitable for a long time. Once the VC money is gone, it'll be dead for good.

that's very surprising to me, I mean, I thought they only needed VC in the initial stages, and afterwards, it'll self perpetuate with advertising....etc.

out of all sites, digg.

what are the alternatives? reddit, twitter, fark? anything else even come close?

[specsaregood]

http://i.imgur.com/8VcHr.jpg

[RonPaulwillWin]

http://i.imgur.com/hXTVn.jpg