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Posted by: Digidave 1 year, 6 months ago

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A well thought out essay on why Digg will fail. "Digg shall irreversibly decline from failures in its design and implementation, the user base it attracts, and the inability of staff and users to fix the site's flaws."

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Digidave1 year, 6 months ago

I'm just tired of how slow it is. Anyone remember Friendster? I thought not.
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  Aidenag1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Digg lag, especially for top ranked users, equals not usable anymore.. When i want to read through digg i log out now. Which is why people will see i rarely vote on content on that site anymore. Hell 50% of the time the pages dont even load fully now.
  Its too time consuming, i can submit 5 stories here in the time it takes me to submit one on digg. And thats including adding 5 tags here, which digg doesnt even do.
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  GregD1 year, 6 months ago
  
  I wrote about this on my blog. It's so frustrating as to be unusable by me anymore. I pretty much stay logged out of digg anymore. Without realizing it, I'll try to digg a story and it will force me to log on and I'm so tired of it being slow, that I don't. Those submissions lose votes from me because of it.
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  schestowitz1 year, 6 months ago
  
  Work with tabs if needed. I sometimes open dozens of pages that interest me, directly from the feedsreader. Then you navigate by closing tabs.
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SuicideTaxi1 year, 6 months ago

That article wouldnt be biased by any chance, would it
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  Digidave1 year, 6 months ago
  
  It's written by someone from the Kuro5hin community. I don't know if the writer has specific bias. But I think he uses a personal voice and gives a solid explanation for his reasoning. I guess its up to the reader.
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okitech1 year, 6 months ago

misleading headline...it should read why it failed for me. conversely digg has not failed, digg has been the receipient of much VC, great pod cast and is always enhancing the user experience. it is not about headline news! it is about a community. digg differs from ns as much as apples and oranges...true while both are edible neither satisfies the complete food pyramid.
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  Digidave1 year, 6 months ago
  
  I agree -- if you read the end of this guy's post he explains why he went with that title. He is predicting the failure of Digg -- and he is so sure of it, that he just refers to it as failing already. Not sure I agree with that logic. If I had to repost -- I'd probably go with something more along your lines.
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Aidenag1 year, 6 months ago

no conflict of interest, im a user of both sites.. Sure i dont get payed at that site, but ive been a member of it longer than most people even knew digg or social news exsisted.
Problem is, digg hasnt been what made it so great(and got everyone hyped over) in months now. And the result is the longterm userbase that loved digg are leaving, or already left. And that really is a shame, as i LOVED the old digg. as did millions of others.
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gaoshan1 year, 6 months ago

Digg would be much better with an opt-out only black sidebar that popped up on every story that is linked to, a red notice announcing the limit of your comment text (841 characters left), a design that offered heaps more tiny, little graphics scattered liberally about, lots more text on the page, a big banner ad right across the top of everything and many more page elements crammed into it.
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RaatkiRani1 year, 6 months ago

I came over after last weekend when something I saw at Digg at first hand became the final straw. This piece is spot on. Digg may be bigger, for now. But I cannot see how it can survive; it has become too big and arrogant for its own good.
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