I do, but moreso and moreso I find the only 'useful' pages are about the business, entertainment, and gaming. I go elsewhere for tech news cause the tech section is almost always nothing but fanboism of one form or another.
Digg died a few months back (5-ish?). The user base is miniscule now compared to what it was. It was mostly caused by digg's shitty redesigns/updates that killed the community.
I really don't like Reddit's UI. I still use Digg, just because of the integration I was already using, but I really don't like what happened to the community. Kevin Rose has his head WAY too far up his ass, and he should never have ok'd such ridiculous changes.
I still love Diggnation though, and I use to really love The Totally Rad Show, but it lost a little luster when they went to daily shows.
I used to use digg a TON. then things got weird and there was a mass exodus to reddit. So I stick with reddit, because digg is only a shadow of what it used to be.
Digg is dead to me. I was a HUGE diggnation fan, went to a couple of the live Diggnations, but once they destroyed the site I jumped ship to Reddit. Reddit is awesome, much more of a community if you get involved in the various subreddits.
I miss digg. It complimented reddit so well, the two communities and their subtle rivalry really made for some great internets. I was always partial to digg though, not so smug, no circle-jerk sub-forum necessary.
Come to think of it the fall of digg reminds me what's going on with game artisans right now. Online communities hang in the balance of the web hosts, a single bad financial move can bring years of community effort crashing down, what a bummer.
What changed? I'm just wondering because I never really used it before now. I just watched diggnation.
Basically, they started catering to advertisers. I understand that digg is really a business, but they went too far in the 'make money' direction, and ignored their community. Digg 4.0 made an attempt to make it easier for non power users to get their stories to the frontpage, which is cool. But, they changed it so that by default, sites like intuit, cnet, mint, and other big sites were given priority. It really defeated the purpose of digg. It was no longer about receiving community fed articles, that often were more obscure articles, that were good, but you would have missed without digg.
Now, it's about articles that are old, or posted everywhere else, and images from TotalProSports.com.
And yeah, they fired a huge part of their staff, so the company can survive. Their revenue drop (though they claimed it was always losing), and they couldn't afford their staffing. I think their revenue dropped after the mass exodus.
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I enjoy the site a lot. Look for "xjoi".
I also like watching Diggnation each week
I read digg. Don't know what you mean by "use", though. I have a RSS reader (bloglines) and I read the Digg topics, is all.
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use as in a registered "use"r
Anyone?
http://digg.com/stalbot207
And yes. Diggnation is the best podcast in the world!
Almost everyone moved to reddit.
I like Reddit much more than digg
I still love Diggnation though, and I use to really love The Totally Rad Show, but it lost a little luster when they went to daily shows.
http://userstyles.org/styles/33832 The only thing I didn't like about reddit was the web design and this fixed that right up.
Come to think of it the fall of digg reminds me what's going on with game artisans right now. Online communities hang in the balance of the web hosts, a single bad financial move can bring years of community effort crashing down, what a bummer.
So many people left digg that I think they had to fire about 2/3 of their staff.
Basically, they started catering to advertisers. I understand that digg is really a business, but they went too far in the 'make money' direction, and ignored their community. Digg 4.0 made an attempt to make it easier for non power users to get their stories to the frontpage, which is cool. But, they changed it so that by default, sites like intuit, cnet, mint, and other big sites were given priority. It really defeated the purpose of digg. It was no longer about receiving community fed articles, that often were more obscure articles, that were good, but you would have missed without digg.
Now, it's about articles that are old, or posted everywhere else, and images from TotalProSports.com.
And yeah, they fired a huge part of their staff, so the company can survive. Their revenue drop (though they claimed it was always losing), and they couldn't afford their staffing. I think their revenue dropped after the mass exodus.
Thanks for the link!