Kevin Rose has released the Digg v4 last month and most of the Power Users are mad about it. Along with them, there are probably thousands of other users who have expressed their indignation about the new Digg v4 works. And I do agree with them, because now users have no power and they also can’t submit stories, due to the new auto-import system. Now publishers just enter their feed URL into a field and all the articles or posts are published on Digg. Now users who worked years to [...]

We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true. I have been an active Digg user for a while and I know a lot of other users, including power users and others. Also I read a lot of blog posts about Digg and other’s thoughts. I will try to share [...]

ReadWriteWeb has written a very interesting post about Mixx. Now it’s one year old and traffic seems to grow really fast, but still can’t be a liable competitor for Digg, receiving less than 5% of Digg’s traffic. Still, it seems to be on the good road and might grow, especially that Digg is full of spam stories, flames and unsatisfied users.

For the last few days, StumbleUpon has continuously banned accounts and a lot are complaining that the traffic has went down. I have a lot of friends that were power users and got their accounts banned for different reasons or for no reason at all. I have also noticed a decrease in traffic from StumbleUpon, but i can’t tell for sure if it’s because of the algorithm or because my websites have been down and flagged as unavailable, due to my servers issues. I will be able to tell more [...]