I love the concept of Digg, but Digg has to get its RSS act together and put a few controls into place. Until they can provide more manageable feeds I'll be signing off. I know I'll be missing great bits that I won't see anywhere else, but I can't do it anymore.
I checked the feed tonight after being gone over the weekend and there were 751 items to be read. You have to be kidding me. The Digg feed has come to the point where the few diamonds discovered do not justify the investment of sifting through the weeds. Life is too short.
It's the same reason I
unsubscribed from blogs.msdn.com. Too much starch, too little fiber. To properly digest MSDN Blogs we need a human filter to sift through the volume. MSDN Blogs needs an...MSDN Blogs Daily News. Yeah, that's the ticket! A reasonably intelligent human agent selecting the day's best like
Community Server.
Digg, on the other hand, can do a MUCH better job of refining its feeds by simply making a few application enhancements. Why can't Digg offer me a feed with items that receive over 1000 diggs, for instance? Or why can't I get a feed of selected subjects within the new collection of Digg 3.0 Containers rather than by complete container only. Other technical filters can easily be applied as well.
Maybe Digg 4.0 will implement the RSS Feed enhancements that will allow me to enjoy it again.
[tags: Digg, RSS]