DiggBar: First signs of Digg losing relevance to the realtime crowd — Sample the Web »
Posted By ck 1 year ago in Science & TechnologyD igg has bait-and-switched its entire userbase by first offering the DiggBar as a URL-shortening service, but now redirecting all DiggBar created links to the Digg URL for the story, rather than to the root story and the word on the street is that the change is here to stay . In mid 2006, when Jason Calacanis, myself, and the Netscape team relaunched Netscape as a social news site, having the title links in our stories go to our permalink pages (which is pretty much the widely adopted internet standard) rather than to the source story was one of the largest criticisms hurled at us by the Digg crowd, who called us a Digg clone (ironic since by the same measure Digg is a Slashdot / Delicious clone). The other critiques were that we paid people to submit cool stories, and that we had a sidebar functionality via which you could view the source site in a panel on the right while maintaining access to our site in a sidebar on the left. It was a sort of NetscapeBar, if you will, and it had more functionality than DiggBar, although it didn’ t shorten URLs.
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