Digg getting bad?

January 26th, 2006

Is it me or has Digg really been going downhill over the last week or two?

Many front page articles have spelling or factual errors.
An article about Firefox vulnerabilities from one year ago made the front page.
Digg often reports old news.
People linking to an article on their blog with two lines of text with a link to the source. Very annoying.
The CAPTCHAs suck. You need to enter a CAPTCHA every time you submit a story or a comment even though you are logged in. The CATCHAs often show capitalized letters but you must type them in lower case (took me a while to work this one out)
Too many n00bs.
Too many articles per day you can barely keep up. Very little real news.

I once said that I thought Digg was as good as Slashdot. I was wrong.

# Sunny Boyon 26 Jan 2006 at 9:59 pm

I believe it’s the algorithm that’s used, that makes Digg so bad. They need to make it harder for an article to get to the front page and make a spelling check mandatory - using a custom dictionary with common words such as ‘Firefox’ and ‘Microsoft’ (:D) allowed. Such as Google’s page rank algorithm, Diggs needs updating to take into account the crap that posts damn un-interesting and crap articles.

Slashdot is for the people, but not by the people. Digg is.
# Rambleon 27 Jan 2006 at 4:00 pm

Agreed, Digg is getting terrible now.
There is at least 2 Apple related sotires per day when about 5% of the entire IT populace use Apple computers.
# Daguron 31 Jan 2006 at 1:21 pm

You should check out Reddit. It’s much nicer.
# Khloon 31 Jan 2006 at 5:36 pm

Another annoying thing about Digg: someone posts a list of 10 Firefox extensions which makes the front page every few days.