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Digg sucks

by Toby Ward on Thu 08 May 2008 12:53 PM PDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

I’ve given up on Digg. Now and forever more. It’s a complete waste of my time, and the World’s.

I once again went to ‘Digg’ an article (Microsoft wants Facebook) and it rejected my login twice. After finally logging in, I went through the long and horrifically unfriendly process of posting an article. It booted me from the system. I logged in again, and re-posted again. It booted me from the system again… the article was never posted. I wasted nearly 15 minutes.

This has happened to me more than one dozen times… in fact, I’ve never once – NEVER ONCE!!! – in all my attempts been able to “Digg” one damn thing! And I’ve been a member for 16 months!!!

The owners and developers of this sucky platform should be embarrassed. It looks pretty, but it’s functionally useless for far too many people like myself (and I’m not a luddite, goddam it).

Deli.co.us is far superior if far too many ways to mention. Oh sure, its not pretty like Digg, but it works!

Digg can bite me.

PS – I know there are going to be some clones that reply by saying “Oh I use Digg all the time and don’t have any problems! It must be you!”…. For those that are tempted to do so, re-read the above…. MORE THAN ONE DOZEN CONSECUTIVE TIMES this has happened, on different occasions, using different posts and links, and using different browsers. It’s not just me.

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Re: Digg sucks

by chris on Thu 08 May 2008 01:31 PM PDT | Permanent Link

I often read this blog but never commented before. I use del.icio.us to the max, google reader, netvibes, funky RSS stuff etc. etc. but I never ever got Digg. Kind of felt I ought to use it, tried once even, got fed up and left it well alone. Hope I beat the clones to it.

Having said that I have pulled the odd RSS feed from it for accidental discovery of interesting stuff but find link sites like del.icio.us work much better for this.

Re: Re: Digg sucks

by Toby Ward on Thu 08 May 2008 03:31 PM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Thanks for the comment, Chris. I can see you are obviously a highly savvy web user and technology follower. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person that has had problems with Digg -- I know there are many, many more of us. Perhaps this will spur Digg to finally fix those highly glaring errors.

Here's a completely different take on why "Digg sucks" from Drew Mckinney:

http://drewmckinney.net/2006/03/22/five-reasons-why-digg-sucks/

Re: Digg sucks

by Seth Gottlieb on Wed 21 May 2008 05:21 PM PDT | Permanent Link

Reddit and Stumbledupon are similar to digg. You might give them a try. They are very different from del.icio.us because they are all about popularity and sharing. I see del.icio.us as being primarily for personal use with occasional sharing with friends (networks).

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