Digg.com is a news aggregation site. I go there to get news from a lot of different sources. The social aspect allows you to discuss the events and follow contacts who most often submit news stories from various sites that I don't frequent. I have been an active member for about 4 years. Digg started off mostly posting tech related information. It branched out to many different topics. Religion, politics, science, sports, entertainment , funny stuff etc. I enjoyed finding sites, news and commenting on the articles. Now Digg released a new watered down version catering to publishers. A hand full of sites get front billing. I am going to submit my blog article when I am done writing this as a test. I have submitted 38 articles from news sites the previous 8 years and none have made it past 20 diggs. Supposedly the new site improves submission. The new site looks like facebook removed the ability to bury a story and reduced the number of options and categories. I am a minimalists at heart but this design change takes so much away that it is now nothing like what made it a useful site.
What Digg has done is made finding stories that were not sponsored or submitted by your contacts difficult if not impossible to find. Reaction so far has been hostile and whiny. I try to keep both of those traits out of my comments. It is difficult. Especially since the roll out went so poorly due to broken features. Feedback and reporting bugs never worked for me. When the dust settles if nothing is changed I will head over to reddit as it is another site I get my news from.
Make the right decision Digg and go back to the last version and review the decisions you made.
