Digg changes - Some Good and some bad

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If you are a regular user of Digg.com like myself you might have noticed that they have made a few changes in the past few weeks.  I will start out with the bad ones first.

Its the Algorithm.  I really hate it!.   I remember way back when it took only 70-80 Diggs to get a story popular.  With this new Algo it takes 150-160!.  It works like this  if a stranger Digg’s your story it holds more weight then if a friend does.  1 stranger is equal to 10 I think I read that somewhere.  So basically if only your friends Digg your stuff you are going to be there for a while.  I used to be able to get a story popular 2 or 3 times a day.  Now I’m struggling for  2-3 times a week,  I really do wish that they would put it back the way that it was.

Ok now the better part of Digg.    Well  it seems like their site is moving Alot faster now,  Shouts are sent quicker and the site loads up quicker.   Maybe they got new hardware?  Or maybe people are just abandoning Digg?

Finally here is my favorite new feature of Digg;   They removed their stupid  20 shout limit,  now you can shout up to  200 friends at one time. Of course you have a wait a few minutes until you can shout to more but who cares!.  I’d rather take 10 minutes to shout 400 people then  1 1/2 hours to shout all of my friends.

I still wish that I can break away from digg but its so Darn addictive!.   They really knew what they were doing when they created that site.