A Review of Web Roast: Digg.com Redesign by Nick Gassmann

Take it back to 3.0

  • Nick Gassmann

    Nick Gassmann

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    Take it back to 3.0

    Posted on Sep 07, 2010 at 3:27 PM

    Had been a Digg user since 2006. Since they released this pile I have not returned. Maybe their plan was to have all long-time users leave so that newer users who were willing to be (or unaware that they were being forced into) bombarded with placed advertising could take their place. The homepage is fine, but the comment sections suck. They have fixed a few major annoyances (like forcing a user into My News). But even the filtered Top News when you're logged in is lame.

Digg Homepage (V4)

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    it's their identity

    first thing this need to be changed, then give it some respect! a bit of breathing room...

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    why all the rounded boxes

    I know that this is more about usability, but these rounded boxes and highlights are just plain... bleugh!

  • 3

    what's this?

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    Nav rollover

    This is fairly dated and looks IMHO ugly

  • 5

    do they really need the underline

    You can tell it's a heading, it's a different color, I think the underline is ugly and makes the text too squashed up

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    I know that DIGG is blue

    but there seems too much of it, I think they really need to look at a better color sheme

Step 1 - Follow

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    incosistent styles

    main page or homepage if you like, has a different style, the buttons should stay the same, I like this style alot better, but I have incosistencies...

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    logo

    still ugly

Step 2 - Find Friends

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    these are the only options??

    wow, ok so there's more than just these 3 in all the social media sites, that people follow... I would of thought, to increase the traffic that they would at least add more options in here

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