Is digg going the way of the dodo? Many think so including me after their latest upgrades or dare I say downgrades with social networking connections. While true that they had a lot of problems with spam, they didn't have to do a complete overhaul of fail. Not just the design is terribly engineered (much like Facebook's failbook design), but the programming has been done in such a way where you'd imagine clowns were running the darn thing.

It's a fact that everything online has problems including Jappleng when it first releases new features, case in point the upgraded forums has some downgrades to them because I haven't finished programming the upgrades. However when you're a large-scale service like Digg, you'd expect professional staff working on the website 24/7 until it is fully functional. However the type of problems that happens are usually database related, and from my understanding they are using either NoSQL or ACID which is scalable. If you're going to migrate data, test it out before publishing it, it's the least they can do.

At this point thousands of users each day are migrating their way over to Reddit and other social bookmarking services because they stay true to their nature, however there are hundreds of others who are now using Digg because of the social networking connections. Although some of the new features are good, the overall gist of it is terrible in every way imaginable.

What do you think? Was the "Upgrades" a good or bad thing?