Was it inspiration from Twitters trendy fail whale? Apparently Twitters success despite its many, many, many technical difficulties has led to a new hip error 404 page. Remember when we talked about the new and upcoming Digg? It’s live, and here is the new fail ox which accompanies the new design.
Unfortunately, the Ox-cart isn’t the only thing that is failing around Digg these days. The new Digg dubbed “V4” or “version 4” has some serious bugs, and the Digg user-base is taking up some big issues with it. Currently one of the most popular submissions on Digg is a screenshot of a user comment, titled Dear Kevin Rose 2. As of the time of writing this the submission has over 1,480 Diggs, however it has yet to reach the front page. Why? Perhaps Digg is censoring it from reaching the front. Regardless, the user who commented accurately outlined nearly every problem with the new Digg and it’s quite apparent that many people agree. Digg is currently in a an all-out riot. Many users have pledged to switch to the rival site Reddit.com, while others are continuously protesting the new changes. Digg founder, Kevin Rose, has made a blog post on his personal site in response to the uprising but it doesn’t appear even he can calm people down. At this point it is hard to say what Digg will look like in the future, or even the next few days…
Back to the trail
To go along with Digg’s Oregon Trail theme grooveDexter whipped up a quick screenshot of the game, Digg v4 launch edition. Enjoy!
Here is the excerpt from the now infamous post by Jordan117 on things wrong with the new Digg.
Shout was cool though if you blocked the spammers, they didn’t need to get rid of it. I’m not going to even get started on the interface problems. Like gdexter brought out, “41 features lost.” Digg is going to die if they don’t fix this crap they are trying to pull. Comment Name * Email *
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