Digg Version 4(about.digg.com)
about.digg.com
Digg Version 4
http://about.digg.com/blog/digg-version-4
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Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...
He turned it into Twitter for Just Links
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.
Upvoted! Heading to the DiggV4 event in NYC tonight. Any fellow HN readers gonna be there?
Kinda. Is Digg still relevant?
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.
They're relevant on a whole ton of fronts.
Agreed they are very relevant.
However, in the tech community there are a lot of eyeballs on them because they've taken so much funding that they need a huge exit to make investors happy and for the acquisition to look like a success on Digg's end. They've yet to find that even though they've talked to many companies including Google. Also, they are no longer experiencing the growth they used to have and have somewhat flatlined, so many are skeptics that the new Digg will really help bring more traffic.
However, in the tech community there are a lot of eyeballs on them because they've taken so much funding that they need a huge exit to make investors happy and for the acquisition to look like a success on Digg's end. They've yet to find that even though they've talked to many companies including Google. Also, they are no longer experiencing the growth they used to have and have somewhat flatlined, so many are skeptics that the new Digg will really help bring more traffic.
Both. I never seen anything of quality at Digg. Seems like a "news" aggregator polluted with links to everything internet.
I guess 'lack of focus' might be the right word.
I guess 'lack of focus' might be the right word.
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Clicky to digg: http://digg.com
umm is it down?
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.