Direct link to ORIGINAL content >>> http://nmap.org/favicon/ Poor site, can't make to digg frontpage, no massive followers like Mashable. Sad but True.
How does the new Digg suck? Let me count the ways:
The Upcoming section is gone, requiring "following" of sites and users to see unpromoted content.
Mainstream media outlets and power users have been given even more power over the front page than regular users, which is the opposite of what needed to happen.
The default homepage is now this "My News" garbage, and cannot be changed.
All your favorites have been deleted.
Comments from you and your friends automatically pre-empt the main discussion.
The yellow/green highlighting of your and your friends' comments is gone.
You can't view all comments at once. If there are hundreds, you can't view all of them, period.
The comment box is three lines high, not resizable, and types out light blue text on white.
Links to comments point the wrong way, and use longer, more confusing URLs.
Timestamps have been removed from the main page and all search results.
The bury button is gone.
The report button is gone.
Historical submissions, like the Obama victory thread, the original iPhone announcement, the HD-DVD key scandal, etc., have had their digg counts reset and their comment sections mangled.
The color scheme has changed, junking the site's characteristic blue/yellow/green navigation bar for almost pure white.
The iconic thumbs up/down have been replaced with generic arrows.
Browsing a user's comment history, including your own, is frustratingly hard.
All usernames are now lower-case (except for mine, and only because I contacted support about it).
The RSS feeds no longer work.
All third-party tools that used the old Digg API are now broken.
And remember how Kevin Rose finally backed off, publishing a blog post with the AACS key in the title (which became one of the most highly-dugg stories ever), asking for forgiveness and saying things like:
"[A]fter seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."
Yeah. The same thing is happening now. While the front page is showing day-old (or older) stories from Engadget and Mashable with 50 or 80 diggs, this 20-hour-old story clearly outlining all the problems with the new site has over 1,000 diggs and isn't popular yet:
Why is Digg censoring content once again? Why is the same guy who humbly apologized for trying to silence the community now approving that same censorship once again? Does the community no longer have any say in what appears on the site? What happened?
argotmeisterAug 27, 2010Buried
Direct link to ORIGINAL content >>> http://nmap.org/favicon/ Poor site, can't make to digg frontpage, no massive followers like Mashable. Sad but True.
warlordAug 27, 2010Buried
How does the new Digg suck? Let me count the ways:
The Upcoming section is gone, requiring "following" of sites and users to see unpromoted content.
Mainstream media outlets and power users have been given even more power over the front page than regular users, which is the opposite of what needed to happen.
The default homepage is now this "My News" garbage, and cannot be changed.
All your favorites have been deleted.
Comments from you and your friends automatically pre-empt the main discussion.
The yellow/green highlighting of your and your friends' comments is gone.
You can't view all comments at once. If there are hundreds, you can't view all of them, period.
The comment box is three lines high, not resizable, and types out light blue text on white.
Links to comments point the wrong way, and use longer, more confusing URLs.
Timestamps have been removed from the main page and all search results.
The bury button is gone.
The report button is gone.
Historical submissions, like the Obama victory thread, the original iPhone announcement, the HD-DVD key scandal, etc., have had their digg counts reset and their comment sections mangled.
The color scheme has changed, junking the site's characteristic blue/yellow/green navigation bar for almost pure white.
The iconic thumbs up/down have been replaced with generic arrows.
Browsing a user's comment history, including your own, is frustratingly hard.
All usernames are now lower-case (except for mine, and only because I contacted support about it).
The RSS feeds no longer work.
All third-party tools that used the old Digg API are now broken.
They are filtering the anti-new Digg posts
Feel free to add your own and repost.
TheyKilledDiggAug 27, 2010Buried
I don't see the new Digg on there, Kevin. Where's the new Digg, Kevin? ....bitch-ass nig...*walks away mumbling to self*
elperegrinoAug 27, 2010Buried
i don't remember ever visiting mashable.com before. now it's displaying a big digg banner across the top i've been there twice. life on diggv4?
the_oxAug 25, 2010Buried
I had to visit google.com to make sure the icon was correct.
douglasqAug 27, 2010Buried
The frustrating thing about it is seeing a large icon you don't recognise and not being able to find out what it is.
...Another frustrating thing is new Digg...
crazyredivanAug 27, 2010Buried
And yet another pointless Mashable story making it on the piss-poor excuse for a front page now.
dragonskiesAug 28, 2010Buried
Hey guys! Remember when Digg tried to censor the HD-DVD encryption key back in 2007?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD-DVD_key
Remember how they'd delete stories containing the key and ban people who posted it?
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/1/
Remember how everybody got so pissed off that the entire front page became full of stories talking about the key and slagging the site?
http://imgur.com/K3uMg.png
And remember how Kevin Rose finally backed off, publishing a blog post with the AACS key in the title (which became one of the most highly-dugg stories ever), asking for forgiveness and saying things like:
"[A]fter seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be."
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
Yeah. The same thing is happening now. While the front page is showing day-old (or older) stories from Engadget and Mashable with 50 or 80 diggs, this 20-hour-old story clearly outlining all the problems with the new site has over 1,000 diggs and isn't popular yet:
http://digg.com/news/technology/dear_kevin_rose_2
This one has nearly 1,300 diggs and is likewise suppressed:
http://digg.com/news/worldnews/rip_digg_com
Why is Digg censoring content once again? Why is the same guy who humbly apologized for trying to silence the community now approving that same censorship once again? Does the community no longer have any say in what appears on the site? What happened?
galacticrerunAug 27, 2010Buried
That's how they get you.
louisrAug 27, 2010Buried
First thing that came to mind, some body needs to make a flash version with a zoom-in button like a map!
phocion55Aug 28, 2010Buried
I want to get this as a favicon.
azzk1krAug 27, 2010Buried
Stop blaming me!
norse77Aug 27, 2010Buried
Do you mean Kevin from "Home Alone?" because the way things are going, soon Kevin will be home alone. BTW i know it's Rose. KEVIN!!
fabfabsterAug 27, 2010Buried
my eyes!!!
RussAdamsAug 25, 2010Buried
I want to get this on a t-shirt.
jorjlimAug 27, 2010Buried
Digg is in the bottom left, IMDB is on there twice.!
erichw1504Aug 27, 2010Buried
Gravatar? http://en.gravatar.com
suganindiaAug 27, 2010Buried
direct link to Google http://google.com
galacticrerunAug 27, 2010Buried
When I zoomed in I saw one that said Milf City. I shall investigate further when I get home from work.
Also one of the first ones I noticed was YouPorn. Huh.
grandpamunsterAug 27, 2010Buried
xvideos is in the top 50.