Stop the presses, er, keyboards. Remember that feature on digg that wasn’t always there and then came on and nobody noticed and then it was taken away and everyone started making noise about it because writing something big about digg nets you traffic and attention? Me too. It seems digg has gone ahead and removed the feature that shows the number of stories you’ve had promoted to the front page.
Looking at the above image, I’m strangely still able to go on with my life. Will digg bounce back from this? What’s there to bounce back from? A company decided to make simple changes that will benefit the community in the future even if they don’t see it. What are users going to do? Go to reddit? Doubtful. Jump ship over to Netscape? Hardly. The hype machine chugs along yet again.
February 6, 2007 at 1:02 am |
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February 11, 2007 at 3:25 pm |
[...] to blow through the hype. I really dislike the pandemic people make things out to be. Examples? Hm, digg removing features, Wikipedia possibly shutting down. It’s really uncool when people try to ride the hype train [...]