Posts Tagged ‘Digg’

Just recently there has been some breaking news over at Digg.  So what’s going on over there with those guys?

Digg has removed the display of thumbnails of avatars of submissions that appear in the Digg home page. This was posted as an announcement in the Digg blog a few days ago. This is aimed as an improvement to server performance and seen as aiding faster page loads.

There has been another concurrent development. Digg raised the limit of stories that could be ‘dug’ by a single user, from 200 to 300. Then this magical figure was put back at ‘unlimited’ allowing unlimited number of ‘diggs’ per user account.

Speculation has it that Digg noticed a decrease in user activity (number of diggs) due to the limits placed on digging. People had to be more judicious in their use of the daily digg quota and thus the Digg usage decreased.

This new development does mean that Traffic-Bug will re-review Digg as a potential option to be added to the service.  With the post restrictions they had in place Digg was not a viable option as it would be a nonstop battle creating new accounts.  We will be testing Digg and possibly adding it to the service in the next bookmark update.

Michael R Roberts