Digging Digg’s Version 4 Upgrade?
Posted in Tech | Posted on
08-30-2010 |
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Tags: digg, social bookmarking, social networking, Tech
Digg has been a wonderful place to social bookmark articles and share with others, but after the Digg version 4 upgrade announced by Kevin Rose on August 25th, there has been an enormous amount of negative responses.
The social bookmarking site now allows more emphasis on followers, rather than the merit of articles. Some users are reporting that the new version will need a new iPhone application. On the Digg Facebook Fan Page, any visitor will immediately see a flood of negative responses.
Is it enough for people to move to Reddit, the social bookmark site for spammers? Yeah, that was harsh… but it is true.
Social bookmark sites have always been one sort of site where your article was king, rather than who followed you. The majority of people commented at your site, but used the remote button to vote or ‘digg’ your article. Digg is merely changing it up and adding the social network side.
Personally, I am not keen on it. I do not have too much time to visit digg and converse with people. I do that at Facebook and Twitter. I already social bookmark articles like crazy every day after the fact I commented. While I do not like the networking aspect because I have no time for it, I do like that if I do get a chance to visit, that I can find my friend’s articles a lot easier.
The design looks nicer of course. As a web designer I cannot deny that. I will still use Digg as I usually do.
What are your thoughts about the Digg version 4 update?

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