It looks like Digg is going to add a wider range of topics to its site. I am not sure if this means Digg.com will mix technology with other stories to compete for the homepage, or if you will have to select what homepage you want, be it technology or politics.
Kevin Rose has always hoped to expand Digg into other niches, but I have looked at the Digg formula, and wondered if that would even work. Digg is successful because… ? Well, no one really knows the full formula of why it got to where it is, but I can tell you one thing, the tech and geek communities have embraced it and so it has grown.
A technophile getting his submission on the front page gives him or her a great sense of worth, and having a high front page number is something to be proud of. Do you think that a doctor, politician, or actor will really care if their submission makes it to the front page of their respected section? Maybe not so much. I think that while a fair bit of people that are interested in more than technology will spread out into the other areas, they will never be as successful as the original technology slant of Digg.
The good news is that Digg will get a redesign for this new update. I can’t wait to see what they come up with this time, and I hope whatever they do, they also release a light weight version for those of us that don’t want to wait for fancy graphics to load.
What fancy graphics? The header?
This is probably one of the most slimmed down web 2 point blah apps I’ve seen.
Its not bad, but did you see the first Digg? There was like 1 graphic. For something like Digg, that’s all I need.
Yes I did, but since its already on the light side I wouldn’t see the need to offer a lite version.
I’ve never had any load problems with Digg, the only people I could see having a problem are people on dial-up, which most tech-savvy people don’t use.
I would think any loading problems would occur on the server side because of the large amount of traffic rather than graphics.
People rave about Digg and I’ve tried to get into it. I’ve always had a problem with the quality of the articles that are voted to the homepage, especially design related articles. It’s recycled stuff I’ve already read or its garbage. But that’s me.
That’s also the problem with “user-generated content.” Since its a consensus of people digging articles the articles will always be somewhat mediocre.
I read blogs, news, and I look at the linklogs of other blogs that I enjoy. That may be the reason why digg is no use to me.
Chris, have you looked at Newsvine? That is what Digg is currently trying to shift to become (but without the actual news).
hi hi…hows you today!????
Yes, I was actually invited to the newsvine beta before it was released. While I do enjoy it more than Digg I haven’t really integrated it into my daily routine.
If there was a way for Digg to give more weight to diggs from more reputable experts in which ever topic than the fanboys that just digg anything, or anything published by a certain blog superstar, I would most definitely enjoy digg more than I do now.
But if digg were to do that it would no longer be a level playing field which digg is built on.
Awesome site! Design is great!
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