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Kevin Rose is killing the DiggBar
- frederickcook 17y agoCompletely agree. It is terribly annoying being linked to a website, looking up at the url, and seeing some bullshit aggregator or other url-forwarder. I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and immediately bounce.
- quizbiz 17y agoWhy? I am not bothered by it in the least bit. It does not affect my user experience.
- joelanman 17y ago- you can't bookmark or link to any page you come across - the address bar will always contain the digg bar URL - it's very insecure - phishing becomes much easier because the actual address is never shown
- Major_Grooves 17y agoEverything I look at through Digg is frustratingly slow to open. I'm presuming this is something to do with the DiggBar rather than the sites having trouble coping with the Digg traffic. I'll be glad to see its back.
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- FlorinAndrei 17y agoThe first thing I did after the DiggBar was released, was to turn it off.
- nailer 17y agoI ended up changing sites - wrapping other people's content was creepy.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoFirst thing I did was make a little js plugin for Wordpress, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frame-breaker-removes-digg-bar-owly-bar-facebook-bar-etc/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frame-breaker-removes-di... . Same code as one used to use to break out of peoples frame based on-site navigation.
- rogermugs 17y agothe first thing i did after hte diggbar was stop using digg.
- Dellort 17y agoDigg is nothing short of pollution of the Internet.
- wonginator1221 17y agoDigg, back in its prime, use to be a thriving tech community. However, since its expansion, it has attracted all types of internet users who seek infographics, videos of cats and political commentary rather than tech articles.
- hkuo 17y agoThis is a nice first step to common sense changes to Digg. Features often seem like great ideas during brainstorming sessions, but don't rise to expectations when they are actually implemented.
- ilamont 17y agoI'd love to see the same thing happen to Hootsuite's Ow.ly URL shortening service, which frames content in a similar way to the Diggbar.
- pkaler 17y agoYou can tell it not to. There is a setting to turn it off. I could give you details but I don't know how to turn Ow.ly's framebar back on!
- nollidge 17y agoI don't think you can do it for everyone who clicks your ow.ly link. You can only turn it off for yourself (like it sets a cookie or something).
- bradendouglass 17y agoI agree! Allow the bar to record the click through but quite the framing biz. I use the service but shy away from the shortner ever time due to this very point.
- hop 17y agoHow about the misleading advertisement 3rd down next?
- andrewcooke 17y agoi go to digg, click on some link, see a new page. so what is this diggbar? (hey, don't look at me strange, i use reddit..)
- andrewcooke 17y agoto answer my own question, it's described here - http://about.digg.com/diggbar http://about.digg.com/diggbar - and seems to be something that's completely optional (you can enter a url like http://digg.com/http://google.com http://digg.com/http://google.com that displays, in this case, google in a frame with a "bar" at the top). given all that i still don't understand a comment on this page about disabling it - it seems to be something you have to enable not disable...
- fletchowns 17y agoWhen it first launched it was opt-out. Due to everybody hating it, they changed it to opt-in.
- andrewcooke 17y agoah! thanks...
- julio_the_squid 17y agoIt's not opt-in... At some point, every single outgoing article link you'd click on would come up in a frame with the Digg bar on top.
- Major_Grooves 17y agoI wonder if Kevin has done this because he is so in tune with what the geek-crowd think and if so has he made this decision for the right reasons? The geeks here in HN and elsewhere are always going to complain the loudest about things like the DiggBar. However, Digg is trying to go mainstream - do the normals really care about the DiggBar? Presuming they represent >99% of Digg's desired audience should they really make a change for the 1% that are moaning? Admittedly I have no idea what the point of the Digg bar is because I too hate it, but I wonder if amongst the normals it is achieving its business goal and therefore should stay? Just playing devil's advocate.
- coderdude 17y agoI believe their desired audience is that 99% (now that the core tech crowd has left). Have you seen the programming section's 'popular' page? It's practically barren. That's how you know the original tech crowd left. In Digg's prime that section was poppin', so to speak.
- judofyr 17y agoMost recent: Chatroulette Is 89% Male, 47% American, And 13% Perverts Made popular 19 days ago Just the way I remember Digg from years ago.
- stanleydrew 17y agoThat's kind of what the parent comment was pointing out. There aren't really tech geeks on Digg anymore, and the presumption is that only tech geeks care about not having the DiggBar. So maybe it doesn't make sense to get rid of it, if most of the people on Digg don't care anyway.
- brandnewlow 17y agoThe average person does not care at all about framing people's stuff. Look at all the URL shortners on Twitter. There's a good number of "normal" people using Twitter and they don't seem to care.
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- dcurtis 17y agoWell, now we know which were the disagreements between Kevin and Jay.
- cfinke 17y agoOr Kevin took this opportunity to frame the DiggBar as Jay's bad idea, whether it was or not.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoGood cop, Bad cop.
- brandnewlow 17y agoEven if all Rose does is re-energize his core audience and get people talking about Digg again...that'd be pretty terrific.
- alastair 17y agoI agree that forcing content to be framed with the 'diggbar' is annoying/wrong/bad/etc, but I kind of like it as an optional feature. It can be very handy when you open a bunch of links from the main page at once, and then forget what the headline was or want to check out the comments quickly.
- froo 17y agoI've started using digg again occasionally and the Diggbar doesn't bother me that much from a casual user point of view. What ended up making me turn it off was actually all the framebusters, because I had gotten in the flow of using it and when it went away, it was annoying.
- Gieckboy 17y agoDiggbar is dead, long live Diggbar: "That said, we will continue to iterate on our browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, and IE. Look for seriously revamped versions of those in a few months.”
- codingthewheel 17y agoEasily the most likable thing Kevin Rose has ever done. Not just the killing of the DiggBar, but the unbanning of banned sites, and this little bit: Also with the launch of the new Digg will be unbanning all previously banned domains. While we will apply automated filters to prevent malware/virus/TOS violations, no other restrictions will be placed on content. This actually gives me hope for Digg.