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Digg v4 Troubles are Symptom of a Bigger Problem

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:44:22 +0000

Digg v4 continues to hit bumps along the road after its launch. Technical glitches and software bugs in the system ran rampant at launch; the type of glitches that made you feel like the release was rushed or pushed out the door for some reason. Besides the hiccups I ran into, I saw a few [...]

Why You Can’t Trust Social News Sites

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:28:28 +0000

I’ve written many times before about why I hate Digg, it’s weak content that gets to the front page, and why social news sites in general frustrate me. Last week AlterNet broke a huge story on a fairly large group of ultra right-win conservatives that have formed a group with the exclusive goal of gaming [...]

Why I Hate Social News Sites

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:48:02 +0000

NOTE: This is an anti-social-news site venting post. If that will upset you, please click away. I have posted before about why I hate Digg, but to be fair, I hate all social news sites that rely exclusively on users up-voting stories. I recently had my account at reddit banned out of thin air, so [...]

This is Why I Hate Digg

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:57:13 +0000

As a small time publisher Digg drives me crazy. The idea behind Digg is that “the people” will decide which content is important and which isn’t by voting on stories. I think this designed likely worked exactly as intended for the first month Digg went live and has since turned into a political dance of [...]

Digg is Gamed by Retardation

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:52:21 +0000

Digg is an entertaining site, much like reading The Superficial is. I don’t turn to Digg for real news or hot topics unless I feel in the mood to pour through a 10:1 ratio of stupid shit to real honest to god interesting content. Today I saw the “Top in All” list above and thought [...]

UI Design Can Be Funny Sometimes

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:01:41 +0000

The other day I was posting something to Mixx (it’s a social news site, like Digg) and noticed on the submission confirmation page there was something interesting about the flow of additional “promotion” work I could do for my story: It’s minor and I think overall (even this screen) that Mixx has an excellent UI [...]