Well it looks like Digg is going down in flames right now.
It all started with someone submitting the HD-DVD encryption key for Linux playback yesterday. It eventually got to the homepage and then “mysteriously” disappeared. Apparently Digg took it down claiming that they must abide by the “law”, referencing intellectual property and their own TOS.
So the digg “community” is all up in arms, with good reason. I say good reason because there may be ulterior motive for Digg to can the stories. Either way it’s proven the majority that make up the “community” of digg are of what makes up digg are a bunch of mental defective kids or loner nerds that don’t know how to handle complicated situations.
So it’s a no win for Digg. Even when this settles (which shouldn’t be long since the stereo-type for these diggers have low attention spans) the true communities will be exposed as morons; and who’s going to follow a bunch of morons. Not me.
Pretty good timing since Newsvine.com relaunched. Maybe I’ll check out Netscape.com.
Update: To help prove my point I’ve dugg my own article, which is a cardinal sin for digg but we’ll find out if the “community” cares.
digg 3.0 was released today and I’ve been anticipating seeing the other news outside of tech. So the new version has been released and it’s not as great as I’d thoughtlike it to be. For some reason they’ve missed a few things that I thought were inherent.
digg.com defaults to the tech category. This should be the next thing they “add” because I as a registered user shouldn’t have to click the all button every time.
The new categories are great, they’re really broad and the scope is large but they’re missing a few. One category that they need is a digg category. It really urks me to see 1 out of 10 “dugg” front page posts being about digg, that’s so lame.
A solution to the above without having to create more categories would be filters. Give the ability for registered digg users to “clean” out what they see more then what the categories could do.
An added feature of the said filters would be custom RSS feeds through filters, how cool would that be?
A bury feature they had before, “old news” is gone. This was one of the most used bury functions I used because I always see old junk on the front page.
These are all simple things that digg could incorporate now and make the system much better and easier to use in my eyes.
Some of my wishes.
Since I’ve been using digg as a link library, replacing my del.icio.us, user tagging could be enabled.
It’s against their model but if users were able to embed videos in the descrition it would keep users there to see more of the newly added ads. I don’t really care for this feature but it might be in there best interest.
OPML upload with simple RSS agregation for the registered users. It would be so cool to be able to read all your other feeds with the ability to click submit to digg or you could automatically digg an item from the aggregator itself to promote the article/story without even changing the page. Maybe information aggregation isn’t their absolute model but it seems like digg can easily gain new users and keep users on their pages without veering too far off the current model of link promotion.
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