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[brentaal]

Old Digg Crushes New Digg in Reader Vote

In the debate between the old version of Digg and the new Digg, the readers have spoken.

Last week, Digg launched version 4.0 of the popular social news website. It’s been a rocky road pre-launch, so why would it be any different post-launch?

Since the launch of the New Digg, which introduced the ability to follow friends, a faster architecture and personalized news, users have been in revolt, mostly over the types of stories reaching the front page. Digg has since addressed some of these issues, but the debate rages on.

Last week we asked you, the Mashable readers, for your opinion on Digg. Which did you prefer: The new digg or the old one?

The old version of Digg was clearly your choice. With a full 78% of the vote (4,808 votes), the classic version bested the new version’s 12% (747 votes). Four percent of you (230 votes) said it was a tie, while 6% of you (348 votes) said you weren’t a fan of Digg.

In the comments, the debate surrounded features that were available in the old version that weren’t in the new one, including the ability to bury stories and the ability to check upcoming stories. Many of you were also quick to point out that the new Digg is designed to broaden the appeal of the social news website, rather than limit it to its current niche of tech-savvy users.

We’re going to revisit this debate in the future, when we’ve had time to reflect on the changes happening at Digg. In the meantime though, we want to hear your thoughts on this debate in the comments.

Source - Mashable

At the moment of me posting this, Old Digg has 19,9k votes whereas the New Digg stands at a measly 1,8k votes.

[tiagosilva29]

brentaal, on 02 September 2010 - 20:18, said:

At the moment of me posting this, Old Digg has 1.99x10⁴ votes whereas the New Digg stands at a measly 1.8x10³ votes.

Proper notation is proper.

[+rajputwarrior]

new digg sucks

[z0phi3l]

New DIGG is here to stay, if you don't like it go to that other site that has the same crap DIGG carries

[jakem1]

z0phi3l, on 02 September 2010 - 22:24, said:

New DIGG is here to stay, if you don't like it go to that other site that has the same crap DIGG carries

It's much more fun to stick around and continue to assist with the destruction of Digg. It's nice to turn up once a day, confirm that the comments are all still filled with spam, add a few more, report a few of the non-reddit articles that appear on the front page and digg some of the reddit articles.

The new Digg might limp along for a while but the site is dead and worthless. The only point of Digg v4 is to serve as an example of how not to run a popular website.

[Growled]

People hate change. They will always vote for the old over the new. In time they will feel the same way about the new as they do the old and they will be against changing that.

[King Mustard]

Growled, on 02 September 2010 - 23:22, said:

People hate change. They will always vote for the old over the new. In time they will feel the same way about the new as they do the old and they will be against changing that.

I really won't prefer the new design. There are so many missing features...

[+rajputwarrior]

Growled, on 02 September 2010 - 23:22, said:

People hate change. They will always vote for the old over the new. In time they will feel the same way about the new as they do the old and they will be against changing that.

new design is garbage dude. it's just a way to digg to push their preffered stories/third party advertisers to get on the front page easier. And it should take me like 4 clicks to get to the top news. terrible UI design.

the new algorithm is stupid, it doesn't take into account just diggs anymore, but pages hits or facebook hits a site gets which obviously all the bigger sites are going to get meaning the little, independent guys are screwed and we see big sites with nothing but ads. HUGE FAIL on diggs part.

[dt]

It's not just a revolt against change. It's a 'revolt' against the apparent philosophical shift in the site away from user generated content and user submitted stories to auto-submitted stories via rss feeds, basically.