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Posted By: DoshDosh 336 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: News Sites
Digg took a step backwards in social news and took a step forward on social superfluity. Digg is now letting you send shout outs to your friends but doesn’t emphasize the initial foundation upon which the site was created: Digg is a social news site. I already turned off shouts; I use Digg for news.
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from Rhea 336 days ago #
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I can't agree more. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. As Tamar pointed out, it's a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. I want to see a description of the article, I want to be able to digg the article or comment immediately and then I want to get out of there, because I'm busy! Hopefully they take the feedback to heart. I'd love to know if they did testing and found that this new approach was really worth it.

from Eavesy 336 days ago #
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It sucks big time, I am with you Tamar, I have 150 friends stories to check out and now I can only see the last 3 pages of submissions, it takes me longer to look at the stories because there is no link to the article on my friends submitted page and from a website owner point of view even if their post gets 1000 diggs they only receive one link, digg are now keeping all of the text links themselves to make their entries rank even higher on Google and make it even harder for the original news articles to compete.

from graywolf 336 days ago #
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yea it's pretty horrible, less useable, and actually less social as far as voting is concerned

from Eavesy 336 days ago #
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This story got so buried by the bury brigade.

from tamar 335 days ago #
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Eavesy: yeah. It happened quickly.


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