Not too long ago, Digg and Reddit had the largest market share of my browsing time. Over the last year, this had declined to the point where I only check these pages on occasion. The reason for this is quite simple: poor content. Democracy is only as good as the voters (ie Bush) and the new wave of users on Digg and Reddit just aren’t getting the job done. These sites have strayed beyond their technology news beginnings. They have become sites to waste time on with “neat tidbits” being the primary content.
Currently, there is a Digg rebellion happening. I discovered this on cnet rather than on digg itself. Here are some of the recent negative articles that were highly dugg articles:
“It became extremely slow and buggy, it implemented a horrible comment system, it introduced several useless new features while ignoring existing issues.”
“Digg has gone far off course from the technology focused social news network it once was.”
“I miss the old digg.”
“Once you realize that Digg is NOT a social NEWS site, but rather a fun facts site, you see how worthless it really is.”
I should have added the downfall of Digg and Reddit (within the tech community) to my 2008 predictions.
Yes I agree Digg is pretty much useless now. TO few a number of people controlling what ever one else sees
Thanks Bruce, it’s good to know I’m not the only person feeling this way.
Are you using something else instead?
Was on the front page of Digg 2 weeks ago. Must admit that it was pretty awesome
No, I haven’t been using anything else. I have had a look at mixx a few times but haven’t signed up yet.
Digg is definitely good for a lot of traffic. The quality of that traffic is questionable though.
I am not dissing the quality of your site or others on digg. My main point is that the type of stories being submitted to digg has changed.