Digg Version 4
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With the new Digg, I just friend those news sources I like so My News mostly shows things I'm interested it. The hard part is finding the right people to friend. I find articles that people submitted, but then I have to see if they've submitted a lot of stuff I don't like. If I friend them I may end up seeing a bunch of news I don't care about.
Still, I find Hacker News to be a much better tech news source.
I'm just going to come out and say this:
Hacker News is better than other aggregators because of the smaller population of morons. Although I did find the PG hatefest on Reddit over his "no assholes" comment quite amusing. I think it's ironic how they hold the discussion on the board of a YC startup.
This is not good for the company rep. I mean, how can they launch a new version and the god damn thing it's crashing already ?
Com on Kevin, get Digg back to it's roots, this is Technology related + simplicity + ?? = profit.
Voting on the right feels weird (used to HN on the left)
In comments, avatar+username take a lot of space.
Same digg, just a few weird visual changes.
They're relevant on a whole ton of fronts.
However, in the tech community there are a lot of eyeballs on them because they've taken so much funding that they need a huge exit to make investors happy and for the acquisition to look like a success on Digg's end. They've yet to find that even though they've talked to many companies including Google. Also, they are no longer experiencing the growth they used to have and have somewhat flatlined, so many are skeptics that the new Digg will really help bring more traffic.
I guess 'lack of focus' might be the right word.