I wrote about this here http://newslily.com/blogs/103 http://newslily.com/blogs/103 ... To paraphrase, digg can still be saved. 1) The layout is freaking horr

I wrote about this here http://newslily.com/blogs/103 http://newslily.com/blogs/103 ... To paraphrase, digg can still be saved. 1) The layout is freaking horrible. Yes, it's very CSSy, but you're not getting very much content (at least not stuff you really care about) without scrolling. Compare this to HN, or Reddit where it is just a list of stories. This is much, much meatier. Compare "Foreign Affairs" magazine with a free college-town newspaper or something like that. The former is all content, the latter is some content, and a ton of adverts. 2) A lot of the stories that were making it on digg were blogspammy nonsense, for the most part. It was lots of top 10 lists, 7 reasons why list, thinly veiled excuses to feature half-naked women, etc. The problem was that is there is a market for people who want both 1 and 2, but these people mostly don't want to have to work to find this stuff. Digg v4 means that they have to do more than they are willing to (this is all subconscious) in order to get what they want. This is the problem with digg v4. There were people who were tolerating both cases because of the few good stories that did make it through, but digg took these away and showed them nothing but top 10 lists until they find people to follow. Bad move. If Kevin (or whoever is steering the ship now) wants to save it, they need Kevin to get on the air and publicly say that he screwed up (even if it wasn't him), is sorry, and that they're going to go back to what they had before. Honestly though, it might be too late. A lot of digg refugees have found reddit, or HN, both of which are hugely superior websites in terms of both content and function. Mostly, digg needs to admit they were wrong, take it back, and play some heavy PR.