Digg relaunches as a general news site
The new Digg has just been relaunched and is now available for everyone. The new website displays all contents on the frontpage with no option to dig deeper into the site. Top stories, popular and upcoming are all listed on the frontpage, and it seems that the team of moderators is strictly limiting the contents that appear here.
When you look at the contents, you will notice that all types of news are covered, from news to media and even fun-related categories. The site does not provide you with filters or sub-pages where you can only access the contents you like. Reddit for instance does that better as it lets you blend out news that you are not interested in to concentrate fully on the news that you want.
Since there is no list of all upcoming stories, users are fed a list of preselected stories that they may vote on which is miles away from the original service.
Another thing that you will notice right away is that there are not any user comments on the site. While you may see an occasional social media comment added to a news piece, the new Digg is giving users no option to comment and add to the stories that get posted on the site. For me, it is the comments section on sites like Reddit or Hacker News that make the difference as they often add information to a story posted on those sites.
When you submit a story you are only asked for a link and nothing more. Previous Digg users will notice that they can only log in using Facebook or Twitter, and not their original Digg account.
It needs to be noted that this is just the first version, and that the developers had only six weeks to pull it off. It is likely that they will add features to the next version of the website.
For me, the new concept is not attractive enough. First, there is the pre-selection of contents that users may vote on, then there is no user interaction whatsoever. Lastly, the frontpage covers all news and offers no filtering options.
Have you been to the new Digg yet? If so, what is your take on the relaunch?
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.