subject: What's the "Digg" Deal? [print this page] What's the "Digg" Deal? What's the "Digg" Deal?
When I got an invite to check Digg 4.0, I really liked its clean design that looked like a match made in heaven between Facebook and Twitter! I also noticed that, unlike digg's older versions, Digg 4.0 wasn't loaded with ads.
Still, the new design was met by so many angry reactions that got me into thinking: What's the "Digg" deal?!
The Digg 4.0 Controversy
Matt Williams, Digg's new CEO, has a lot on his plate because many people are not so happy by the fact that a lot of digg's searches and top news items come from Reddit.com. Except for lucky reddit, everyone else is not so thrilled by that!
People have been competing in expressing their anger at the new design and the "I hate the new Digg" Facebook page saw the light!
What Exactly Ticks People off About Digg 4.0?
Unlike older versions, you no longer can see what your friends' diggs
In Digg 4.0, my news is no longer mine alone; my friends' news gets in as well!
The new top news page customization option isolates you from knowing what others are saying
The new Digg left the door wide open for massive spamming with its auto submission feature
The new Digg's submission is currently open to publishers and account holders. What about the rest of digg's users?!
Here is a real bummer: new Digg took away user stats! So power users are no longer recognized!
The very cool friends' recommendations feature disappeared in Dig 4.0, leaving you clueless about your friends' views and opinions
RSS feeds and new Digg simply don't rhyme! In other words,you can no longer search for a popular category and will have to "Digg" for an ant in the desert instead!!
You can kiss subcategories goodbye in Digg 4.0 because only the top categories are retained
You are still unable to cross-post to Facebook, Google and Twitter
New Digg crashes often because it has bugs! Well, that really "bugs" people!
In an attempt to cool down the angry masses, Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, has beenblogging like crazy and promising to make things better but will he succeed?
What's There to Like About Digg 4.0?
Fortunately, new Digg does have some good staff that would ease users' shock to some extent. Here are some of them.
A clean design
Full news customization
Allowing content auto submitting
Connecting with Twitter, Facebook and Google
Allowing feeds importing
Removing the unneeded Upcoming Section
Quality now wins over quantity so really good diggers can shine like pros without having to submit a load of articles every day
No worries about your content getting "buried"
The Report X' button allows you to report spam links to spam sites
You have access to the top news of the people you follow
The new Digg allows old users to invite new people along. That's good to know after all I guess!
It's still too early to predict how the future will unfold for the newly born Digg 4.0. So, let's just wait and see and while waiting impatiently I can't help but wonder: What's the "Digg" deal?
