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The “Bury” Button Returns to Digg

Another much-requested feature has returned to Digg, as the social news site looks to recover from the version 4 fiasco: the bury button. The button — which is essentially the opposite of the “Digg” button and helps push a story out of the system — appears to be live on all stories.

Is Digg About to Unbury the Bury Button?

If a recent poll from Digg founder Kevin Rose is any indication, Digg is considering bringing back the Bury button.

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Did Some House Cleaning with a Couple Feeds - Digg, Fark, Yahoo Buzz, Bloglines

Fri, 10/01/2010 - 12:58pm — senh

I did some house cleaning over the last couple days with some feeds on the site.

I removed Bloglines from Search because the site's closing down in November. Ask.com, which owns it, thinks that RSS readers are going the way of the dinosaurs. That's not good news for me, but I'm just gonna chug along.

Digg v4 reshuffled some of its categories, so some feeds no longer work and had to be removed - Digg Travel, for instance. Same deal with Yahoo Buzz.

Digg’s Decline by the Numbers: Plummeting Traffic, Waning Power

When it comes to releasing a new product, users and pundits’ opinions only count for so much, but numbers — including revenue and traffic– don’t lie... This week, the web analysts at Hitwise gathered data showing a 34% decline in visitors in the U.K. and a 24% decline in the U.S. in the past 11 weeks.

Senh: There's something wrong with these charts. Shouldn't the week of the relaunch of Digg v4 show at least a slight increase in traffic? During the launch date, the news media and bloggers were writing about it, which should result in a traffic spike.

Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?

A redesign is part of the Web site’s plan to regain momentum as it has lost ground in a crowded field that includes Facebook and Twitter.

Senh: In terms of analysis, the article is similar to what I wrote. Mainly, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo Buzz got into link sharing and pretty much pushed Digg aside. Digg execs attributed the lost in traffic to Google's new algorithm which resulted in less referral traffic to Digg. The article also has an in-depth write-up of its history.

Digg Has Been Ransacked and Sprayed with Graffiti

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 2:52pm — senh

The latest version of Digg - aka Digg v4 - is getting a lot of negative feedback from its users, especially the power users. They’ve lead a Digg Revolt by pushing articles from their rival, Reddit, to Digg’s homepage. Now, they’ve defaced the site’s comment system by littering it with anti-Digg comments.

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