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Digg Version 4

20 points| jsm386 | 15 years ago |about.digg.com | reply

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[+] ditoa|15 years ago|reply
God I really hate this whole "following" bullshit. They turned Digg into the bastard child of Digg V3 and Twitter. Never gonna use it now.
[+] dgroves|15 years ago|reply
yeah, I can't be bothered either.
[+] staunch|15 years ago|reply
He turned it into Twitter for Just Links
[+] Osiris|15 years ago|reply
I've been in the beta for a while now (they sent me an invite). I like it a lot better. I joined Digg when it was just a technology news site, and I used it less and less as it become more about other news than tech news, especially all the images and videos.

With the new Digg, I just friend those news sources I like so My News mostly shows things I'm interested it. The hard part is finding the right people to friend. I find articles that people submitted, but then I have to see if they've submitted a lot of stuff I don't like. If I friend them I may end up seeing a bunch of news I don't care about.

Still, I find Hacker News to be a much better tech news source.

[+] Locke1689|15 years ago|reply
Still, I find Hacker News to be a much better tech news source.

I'm just going to come out and say this:

Hacker News is better than other aggregators because of the smaller population of morons. Although I did find the PG hatefest on Reddit over his "no assholes" comment quite amusing. I think it's ironic how they hold the discussion on the board of a YC startup.

[+] studer|15 years ago|reply
The RSS autopost stuff puzzles me. Are they turning into an on-line RSS reader, with a shared discussion space?
[+] phatbyte|15 years ago|reply
I tried it today, but it had a lot of bugs, almost every link I clicked something weird happen, now it's even down for quite some time. I guess they are fixing it like there's no tomorrow.

This is not good for the company rep. I mean, how can they launch a new version and the god damn thing it's crashing already ?

Com on Kevin, get Digg back to it's roots, this is Technology related + simplicity + ?? = profit.

[+] Kilimanjaro|15 years ago|reply
Topics bar on the side takes a lot of space on a small laptop.

Voting on the right feels weird (used to HN on the left)

In comments, avatar+username take a lot of space.

Same digg, just a few weird visual changes.

[+] whalesalad|15 years ago|reply
Woah, their blog is powered by drupal. Odd. I guess their entire "about.digg.com" is probably Drupal. Looks like they're not doing a very good job scaling it :)
[+] lshepstone|15 years ago|reply
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.
[+] kn0thing|15 years ago|reply
Upvoted! Heading to the DiggV4 event in NYC tonight. Any fellow HN readers gonna be there?
[+] lovskogen|15 years ago|reply
Kinda. Is Digg still relevant?
[+] mikeryan|15 years ago|reply
Is this just snark or a real question? AFAIK digg is still one of the largest news aggregation sites on the web and is right now still looking for both a sustaining revenue stream and (maybe) an exit.

They're relevant on a whole ton of fronts.

[+] monological|15 years ago|reply
umm is it down?
[+] bobbyi|15 years ago|reply
Looks like their blog is down. The actual site is up.
[+] mikeryan|15 years ago|reply
Digg seems to be up - but their blog looks hosed ;-)
[+] ddemchuk|15 years ago|reply
anyone else get an http basic auth popup upon loading the main page? something about dads.digg.com, which I presume has to do with Digg Ads or something.