Internet and Social Bookmarking August 28th, 2007 by HMTKSteve
New Digg says, “You must watch videos!!!”
OK, is this some sort of joke? Why is Digg forcing me to include at least one category of videos?
After the last site redesign Digg removed videos from the front page all together. Now that they have added them back they are forcing me to include at least one category of videos in my home page preferences.
"You need to have at least one videos topic selected or you won't see any videos." is what it says. What if I do not want to see ANY videos? Notice the grayed out "save changes" button?
Moving the videos from the front page was a huge mistake to begin with. Whereas Digg used to be an extension of YouTube in the past, once they removed the videos from the front page, they also removed them from your friends’ submitted stories. If you wanted videos you had to work pretty hard for them. I guess they realized that a) they have a large crowd of 12 year olds who are into funny videos and b)videos are the future so they can’t kill them altogether. I guess once someone decided to bring the videos back in, they went all out with the idea.
But, but, I don’t want to see any videos on digg!
You also don’t want your articles to be auto-buried every time I digg them, but whadayagonnado?
oh my god, they have gone crazy… let them unbann my blog first
asses