Can anybody who still uses Digg comment on if this makes Digg worthwhile again (or at least not a waste of time)?
I thought wasting time was the point.
I use Digg but I found the recommendation engine pretty poor. The problem I had with it is it's very simplistic. If you and user X have both digged up a story, and then user X diggs up another story, it concludes that you probably like that story too because you both agreed on the first story. This tends to be not true all the time. Ideally they should try for more of a netflix-like system that evaluates why certain people like certain types of stories, but that would be much more effort to implement
just changes the scale of the filtering 'now takes more diggs for the front page' .... so if they havent adjusted yet .. ( although im sure its automatic) it would be easier to hit front page