Digg’s April Fools… The Joke is on You!
There has been a mess of April Fools jokes going around the web but none had fooled me until I ran across Digg’s. I actually thought my browser was having a javascript issue when these weird symbols showed up where the number of Diggs used to be.
Digg added in a quick joke with their latest downtime to make the Digg vote buttons display one of 8 different symbols instead of the actual Digg vote count, which is normally shows.
Pretty interesting and yeah it fooled me for a second, but the problem is that the new addition has caused Digg to lag and crawl to a snail’s pace. It now takes forever to navigate through the site and load pages. It was so bad that I actually rebooted my computer and reset my modem thinking it might have been my connection.
Alas Digg.com, it would appear that you have gone and fooled yourself.
Digg Extends the Time Limit on Upcoming Submissions
There has been a lot of conversations over the last few months about Digg’s changes to their algorithm. The amount of Diggs required for most users was increased dramatically and caused a lot of frustration. Where you used to require up to potentially 125 Diggs to reach the front page, users are noticing some submissions requiring well over 200 now.
Here is a screen shot of what it takes to even get into the “upcoming/most” page:
Google Getting Social? Can You Digg It?
Social Media might have been around for a while, being as social is such a vague term, but it has really been over the last year that we have seen a massive explosion in the popularity around the use of social media marketing.
Although there are many social communities people use, it was Digg that put social media marketing on everyones radar. It was the mass wave of traffic (”digg-effect“), often upwards of 100,000 UVs, and the many authoritative natural links sites received, that sold marketers on the need to get to that coveted “front page”.
Diggers Shout Loud Enough… Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose Respond
Quite a few posts went to the front page of Digg today, talking about the recent changes in Digg algorithm which caused the required votes to reach the front page to increase dramatically.
A session of the Drill Down was arranged to invite digg users into a chat to discuss their concerns and issues with the recent changes at Digg. The conversation lasted about 2 hours, and ended with the majority of top users agreeing to leave digg for a period of 4 to 5 days and possibly forever if Digg did not respond to their concerns.
Just as the conversation was about to come to an end Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose jumped into the chat room and announced they were open and willing to discuss our concerns. After a few tests to determine it was really Kevin, which including him having to favorite and digg a submission about a Duck Hunt Painting, and some time downloading skype, Kevin and Jay joined the Drill Down.
I have to say I was very impressed with the way they handled the situation and the respect they showed us. They were truly interested in answering our questions and listening to our concerns.
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About Brent Csutoras
Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral and Search Engine Marketing.
Brent is a regular speaker at top search marketing conferences such as SMX and Pubcon. He has also made numerous guest appearances discussing the arts of Social Media and Search Engine Marking on highly popular internet marketing radio shows such as Good Karma, Rush Hour, and Webmaster on the Roof.
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