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The new Digg
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Re: The new Digg
#32I must admit I haven't even visited digg in over four years, but wasn't it originally intended to feature user-submitted content? The front page pretty much screams the exact opposite to me. I instantly pictured a bunch of hired goons sitting in an office, submitting content in return for their weekly pay.
The headlines, photos and layout reminds me of Ars Technica without the original content.
Re: The new Digg
#33Fking shit
Re: The new Digg
#34If anyone from Digg is reading this, please make #site-header-container 2px wider. The right edge of the header is bothering the crap out of me.
Other than that, great job new Digg team!
Edit: after a few refreshes and zoom in/out, the header appears to be centered correctly. it seems to be offset if i resize my window and/or other random times. the header css is kinda janky, but who cares, you guys did great for a 6 week build from scratch. :)
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#35Consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 when zooming in. Did they QA the new look?
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#36Read their blog comments http://blog.digg.com/post/28441399381/welcome-to-digg-v1 It is impressive how much hate and negativity the comments include. Sometimes we forget that while traffic keeps up community quality can easily degenerate. They will have to put also a lot of effort into community-re-building. This shows again shows to me how hard and impressive the task is they picked. It's social software. It's not o…
These comments are potentially made by people who have been using Digg for many years and have continued to be loyal in spite of v4. Imagine yourself in their position when one day you visit your favourite site and everything is gone.
Re: The new Digg
#37OK, I fire up the site. I see 6 big pictures, 6 links to actual content and minimal navigation. A whole screen and only 6 bits of actual content? Its like a children's book. And more and more sites age going for this style. Is this the web now? The BBC Olympic site has gone this route and its awful to navigate.
Why is this the new way to go? IMHO, it is terrible.
Look at this site, a simple and clear list of links to stories and associated comments. Simple, easy and lots of content on one screen, in my case, 27 linked stories. Please don't ever let HN go this way. I don't want big pretty pictures taking up my screen when Im trying to look for written stories to read. I am not a child.
Re: The new Digg
#38The new Digg doesn't look terrible, by any stretch. But - the developers' insistence on an arbitrary six week push deadline when there clearly remain unsolved problems is fairly amateurish and reeks of self-indulgence. Users /with existing expectations/ (which Digg invariably presents) do not care about "release early, release often." They want something that kicks ass and gets it right on the first try.
They said the old Digg has very high operating costs. That may have been a factor in the rush to release the new site.
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#39Personally, and I'm probably in a minority, I hate these huge, slabby, infinitely scrolling displays of photos/images with precious few items on the screen. It's a lot of work to try to find any sensible number of items of interest. I seriously prefer an interface like HN - spare, clean, and information rich. Added in edit: I my POV differs significantly from that of jgrahamc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321…
I don't like it either, I personally find it hard to establish any sort of importance or order.
Re: The new Digg
#40I find the look interestingly different to what I expected. The loss of colour is brave (given the Digg green) but is at least a clean break, which is perhaps what's needed.
It would be nice to have a small bar at the top that when clicked would show the most popular and upcoming rather than having to scroll to the bottom (although I'd keep the material at the bottom as well for those that don't notice).
The Popular section looks too big for my liking.
Of course the big thing is the content. How relevant is the content? Sadly on face value, it looks like it fails (but then again it would as the content will be the same as v4).
In conclusion it looks nice and is a welcome break, but the content doesn't make me want to sign up. I do wish the new Digg team the best of luck though, and will check back in a while to see if the content's improved.