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Digg Version 4

20 points by jsm386 16y ago

Osiris 16y ago
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.
- studer 16y ago
  The RSS autopost stuff puzzles me. Are they turning into an on-line RSS reader, with a shared discussion space?
  - protomyth 16y ago
    "Big Site" were manually posting each story, so this just make it an automated function.
- Locke1689 16y ago
  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.
monological 16y ago
umm is it down?
- bobbyi 16y ago
  Looks like their blog is down. The actual site is up.
  - cheald 16y ago
    Their API isn't faring much better. I woke up to CI tests blaring alarms at me. :)
- mikeryan 16y ago
  Digg seems to be up - but their blog looks hosed ;-)
lovskogen 16y ago
Kinda. Is Digg still relevant?
- mikeryan 16y ago
  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.
  - jordanmessina 16y ago
    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.
  - lovskogen 16y ago
    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.
kn0thing 16y ago
Upvoted! Heading to the DiggV4 event in NYC tonight. Any fellow HN readers gonna be there?
ronnoch 16y ago
Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.digg.com%2Fblog%2Fdigg-version-4&fr=yfp-t-701&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fabout.digg.com%2fblog%2fdigg-version-4&d=777075753921&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=255d3bef,c7e4d0e0&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=XWRyJp4AhUUEpwqTHXz.FQ-- http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...
ditoa 16y ago
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 16y ago
  yeah, I can't be bothered either.
lshepstone 16y ago
At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.
staunch 16y ago
He turned it into Twitter for Just Links
deleted 16y ago
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ronnier 16y ago
Clicky to digg: http://digg.com http://digg.com
whalesalad 16y ago
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 :)
ddemchuk 16y ago
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.
Kilimanjaro 16y ago
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.
phatbyte 16y ago
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.

20 points by jsm386 16y ago

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.

studer 16y ago
The RSS autopost stuff puzzles me. Are they turning into an on-line RSS reader, with a shared discussion space?
- protomyth 16y ago
  "Big Site" were manually posting each story, so this just make it an automated function.
Locke1689 16y ago
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.

monological 16y ago

umm is it down?

bobbyi 16y ago
Looks like their blog is down. The actual site is up.
- cheald 16y ago
  Their API isn't faring much better. I woke up to CI tests blaring alarms at me. :)
mikeryan 16y ago
Digg seems to be up - but their blog looks hosed ;-)

lovskogen 16y ago

Kinda. Is Digg still relevant?

mikeryan 16y ago
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.
- jordanmessina 16y ago
  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.
- lovskogen 16y ago
  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.

kn0thing 16y ago

Upvoted! Heading to the DiggV4 event in NYC tonight. Any fellow HN readers gonna be there?

ronnoch 16y ago

Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.digg.com%2Fblog%2Fdigg-version-4&fr=yfp-t-701&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fabout.digg.com%2fblog%2fdigg-version-4&d=777075753921&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=255d3bef,c7e4d0e0&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=XWRyJp4AhUUEpwqTHXz.FQ-- http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...

ditoa 16y ago

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 16y ago
yeah, I can't be bothered either.

lshepstone 16y ago

At least the V4 loads way quicker than the previous site, I might actually use it more now.

staunch 16y ago

He turned it into Twitter for Just Links

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

ronnier 16y ago

Clicky to digg: http://digg.com http://digg.com

whalesalad 16y ago

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 :)

ddemchuk 16y ago

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.

Kilimanjaro 16y ago

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.

phatbyte 16y ago

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.