I think they needed to take away the ability to comment.
Digg was a pretty awesome community in 2005 and 2006. The content was largely tech related and the comments were informative and interesting.
In 2007 it started getting worse, there were more jokes and memes and the content started to suffer. With no subreddit like system the original community began to become drowned out.
Towards the end of 2008 there was nothing left except memes and lame one line jokes that put youtube comments to shame. I was always surprised by all the people complaining about Digg v4 - the community sucked a long time before that.
I'm impressed by this revision, should be interesting to see what happens.
To add to that, one more issue that caused me to drift away from Digg was the numerous posts/comments on sensitive topics such as religion, politics etc.
Digg was a pretty awesome community in 2005 and 2006. The content was largely tech related and the comments were informative and interesting.
In 2007 it started getting worse, there were more jokes and memes and the content started to suffer. With no subreddit like system the original community began to become drowned out.
Towards the end of 2008 there was nothing left except memes and lame one line jokes that put youtube comments to shame. I was always surprised by all the people complaining about Digg v4 - the community sucked a long time before that.
I'm impressed by this revision, should be interesting to see what happens.