Judging from Kevin Rose's tweets it seems he thinks the only problems are performance during launch and bugs.
Kevin's latest tweet: "crazy traffic day, over 1M+ v4 users, we're still working hard to fix bugs.. more updates soon!" (that was 13 hours ago)
It seems Kevin is in denial. It's not just bugs (although there are many that should have been fixed in beta), it's the DESIGN. The new design sucks. Read the comments! Virtually everyone hates it. I suspect Kevin and his staff are sitting there thinking that it's just typical user resistance to change. It isn't. It's a new design that tries to change the way people use Digg. Problem is - people know how they want to use Digg. The old Digg facilitated that behavior. The new Digg severely inhibits that behavior. Digg must have gotten similar feedback during the beta period. Obviously they choose to ignore that feedback. The only question that matters now is will Kevin listen to Digg's users now? It's not looking good.
Agreed. The point of Digg to me was to find a place with lots of interesting things to read, and participate in the discussions for those stories I like/hate. I don't care how many followers or friends I have. I don't want to see that crap on the top of the site. It's irrelevant to anyone who isn't a social whore.
What's with the assumption that I want to "follow" any publishers? I don't want the world filtered according to my prejudices. I want to see and hear stories that I agree with, and others that make my blood boil. That was the whole point! Frankly, I don't care about power posters, I certainly don't want to have news filtered to only show specific posters. Think how many great stories you miss if you don't have the whole flood pouring in!
And then there's the really poor visual design. Hard read, hard to follow, and so much space given to crap that I want gone. Give me back a simple interface, one that shows me all stories, stories by category, and lets me easily find stories I've commented on, and if there's feedback inviting a response.
No bury button. Digg has become facebook. What's with this social media s**t - I already have a facebook account simply because I'm forced to if I don't want to make new accounts everywhere. Now the view sucks, I can't easily bury a s**tty story like this one, and it keeps trying to integrate with this social s**t.
I'm antisocial and asocial. Yes, I actively want the downfall of society. Yes, I dislike everyone. Even those who agree with me. I'm your usual Digg user. We don't like this s**t. Put it back.
Yea, this is terrible. I have clicked on one or two stories in my new digg stream since diggv4 launched. And almost every story on "My News" stream has just 1 digg, because they all suck. This is all very pointless if we are supposed to follow "taste makers" (as kevin calls them) but each taste maker just pushes their own crap, even if its no good. Didn't digg become popular because the community as a whole filtered out the crap? Now I scroll through "My News" and I see non-stop crappy articles. Noone I follow diggs anything except for content publishers. My friends as a whole don't use digg, so I cant follow them. To top it off if they did try digg now they would be so confused and find the experience so terrible that they probably wouldn't stick around. Furthermore, I have discovered that I don't give a s**t if one of the people I follow diggs a story, because that is only one person. The story is probably s**t with only digg and no comments, so why is it in my "My News" stream.
This has to be one of the worst "upgrades" I can ever remember. It's like they said we are going to upgrade you from Windows XP and what they gave you was BOB
I think Digg is banking on a Facebook esque change. Everyone always freaks out when Facebook goes through it's various changes but then people get used to it and calm down/continue using it. However, this is a massive mistake for a site like digg. People have options (reddit), this isnt like facebook. I for one, don't even come here for a social media type option. I just like seeing random/cool articles and read intelligent comments. Digg trying to penetrate deeper into the social media is the wrong direction.
There should at least be an option to go right to Top News. I always have to click it now to see popular stores, rather than a page full of 1 digg stories. Also, it seems like the popular news hasn't been updated in days, I just keep seeing the same crap I have been the last 2 days show up in the top 10. How am I supposed to kill time when all the same stories are still there?!
Why is My News the default tab? I don't need to see my own comments and stories I've already dugg.
Why do stories now show when they were submitted on the front page?
Why is everything on one page and you have to click "load more" and scroll down. Then if you click a story, then click back on your browser, it's all reset and you have to start from scratch.
Why is the comment box in light blue so I can barely read what I'm writing right now?
Why is so much real estate taken up by the categories tabs on the left side of the screen instead of up top?
Why replace thumbs up and down with arrows?
Why can't I bury stories? Sponsors didn't like it?
Basically Digg sold its user base to the mainstream media whores and big industry blogs. I could care less about the power users being marginalized. Balancing out the community is a great thing. What really pisses me off is the indie publisher is getting blasted in the ass as Digg reneges on its promise of being the savior of smaller publishers and giving them a voice and bends over to take it from sites like NYTimes, Telegraph, etc.
digg comment sections are almost always republican vs democrat or liberal vs conservative... i think we can all come to a bi-partisan agreement that the new digg sucks!
It means you can't go back and easily follow threads you're participated in. In other words, it is now much more difficult to have a meaningful discussion about an article you've read. Add that to the absolutely f**king awful layout and excessive whitespace, and the new digg sucks like the fat sorority freshman at her first frat party.
noupsellAug 25, 2010Buried
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swellinAug 26, 2010Buried
What the f**k did you do Kevin Rose. Fix this s**t.
mywhitenoiseAug 26, 2010Buried
Fix the whole f**king thing! Give us the option to view it the old way. I don't even want to come on this site anymore.
shiftgoodAug 25, 2010Buried
OK lets take a vote.
(Try to) Digg this comment up if you simply don't like this new digg.
mnocketAug 26, 2010Buried
Judging from Kevin Rose's tweets it seems he thinks the only problems are performance during launch and bugs.
Kevin's latest tweet: "crazy traffic day, over 1M+ v4 users, we're still working hard to fix bugs.. more updates soon!" (that was 13 hours ago)
It seems Kevin is in denial. It's not just bugs (although there are many that should have been fixed in beta), it's the DESIGN. The new design sucks. Read the comments! Virtually everyone hates it. I suspect Kevin and his staff are sitting there thinking that it's just typical user resistance to change. It isn't. It's a new design that tries to change the way people use Digg. Problem is - people know how they want to use Digg. The old Digg facilitated that behavior. The new Digg severely inhibits that behavior. Digg must have gotten similar feedback during the beta period. Obviously they choose to ignore that feedback. The only question that matters now is will Kevin listen to Digg's users now? It's not looking good.
designerutahAug 26, 2010Buried
Agreed. The point of Digg to me was to find a place with lots of interesting things to read, and participate in the discussions for those stories I like/hate. I don't care how many followers or friends I have. I don't want to see that crap on the top of the site. It's irrelevant to anyone who isn't a social whore.
What's with the assumption that I want to "follow" any publishers? I don't want the world filtered according to my prejudices. I want to see and hear stories that I agree with, and others that make my blood boil. That was the whole point! Frankly, I don't care about power posters, I certainly don't want to have news filtered to only show specific posters. Think how many great stories you miss if you don't have the whole flood pouring in!
And then there's the really poor visual design. Hard read, hard to follow, and so much space given to crap that I want gone. Give me back a simple interface, one that shows me all stories, stories by category, and lets me easily find stories I've commented on, and if there's feedback inviting a response.
MichichaelAug 26, 2010Buried
No bury button. Digg has become facebook. What's with this social media s**t - I already have a facebook account simply because I'm forced to if I don't want to make new accounts everywhere. Now the view sucks, I can't easily bury a s**tty story like this one, and it keeps trying to integrate with this social s**t.
I'm antisocial and asocial. Yes, I actively want the downfall of society. Yes, I dislike everyone. Even those who agree with me. I'm your usual Digg user. We don't like this s**t. Put it back.
1badAug 26, 2010Buried
Yea, this is terrible. I have clicked on one or two stories in my new digg stream since diggv4 launched. And almost every story on "My News" stream has just 1 digg, because they all suck. This is all very pointless if we are supposed to follow "taste makers" (as kevin calls them) but each taste maker just pushes their own crap, even if its no good. Didn't digg become popular because the community as a whole filtered out the crap? Now I scroll through "My News" and I see non-stop crappy articles. Noone I follow diggs anything except for content publishers. My friends as a whole don't use digg, so I cant follow them. To top it off if they did try digg now they would be so confused and find the experience so terrible that they probably wouldn't stick around. Furthermore, I have discovered that I don't give a s**t if one of the people I follow diggs a story, because that is only one person. The story is probably s**t with only digg and no comments, so why is it in my "My News" stream.
stewmeatAug 26, 2010Buried
This has to be one of the worst "upgrades" I can ever remember. It's like they said we are going to upgrade you from Windows XP and what they gave you was BOB
osterhouseAug 26, 2010Buried
I think Digg is banking on a Facebook esque change. Everyone always freaks out when Facebook goes through it's various changes but then people get used to it and calm down/continue using it. However, this is a massive mistake for a site like digg. People have options (reddit), this isnt like facebook. I for one, don't even come here for a social media type option. I just like seeing random/cool articles and read intelligent comments. Digg trying to penetrate deeper into the social media is the wrong direction.
h8f8kesAug 25, 2010Buried
Anyone else find this very buggy? Lot's of error messages so far.
channon65Aug 26, 2010Buried
There should at least be an option to go right to Top News. I always have to click it now to see popular stores, rather than a page full of 1 digg stories. Also, it seems like the popular news hasn't been updated in days, I just keep seeing the same crap I have been the last 2 days show up in the top 10. How am I supposed to kill time when all the same stories are still there?!
foamedAug 25, 2010Buried
I find the new Digg confusing, hard to navigate, buggy and too different from the old Digg. Sorry, but I don't really like it at all.
duneadxAug 25, 2010Buried
I visited Reddit for the first time today.
Why is My News the default tab? I don't need to see my own comments and stories I've already dugg.
Why do stories now show when they were submitted on the front page?
Why is everything on one page and you have to click "load more" and scroll down. Then if you click a story, then click back on your browser, it's all reset and you have to start from scratch.
Why is the comment box in light blue so I can barely read what I'm writing right now?
Why is so much real estate taken up by the categories tabs on the left side of the screen instead of up top?
Why replace thumbs up and down with arrows?
Why can't I bury stories? Sponsors didn't like it?
msaleemAug 25, 2010Buried
Basically Digg sold its user base to the mainstream media whores and big industry blogs. I could care less about the power users being marginalized. Balancing out the community is a great thing. What really pisses me off is the indie publisher is getting blasted in the ass as Digg reneges on its promise of being the savior of smaller publishers and giving them a voice and bends over to take it from sites like NYTimes, Telegraph, etc.
jucketAug 26, 2010Buried
digg comment sections are almost always republican vs democrat or liberal vs conservative... i think we can all come to a bi-partisan agreement that the new digg sucks!
braditAug 25, 2010Buried
This is the new Digg. Prepare to see most of your stories being from Mashable, NYTimes, TechCrunch etc.
kaiosamaAug 26, 2010Buried
Not to mention failed to 'load more' in the comment section.
eviljellomanAug 26, 2010Buried
It means you can't go back and easily follow threads you're participated in. In other words, it is now much more difficult to have a meaningful discussion about an article you've read. Add that to the absolutely f**king awful layout and excessive whitespace, and the new digg sucks like the fat sorority freshman at her first frat party.
zeligAug 25, 2010Buried
I hate it.