Digg.com Stopped RSS Feed Submission
Reason for Removing RSS Feeds Submission
Automated submissions through RSS Feeds affected the top news stories of Digg. Digg received feedback from the Digg community that most top news/stories came from manual submission. To supplement the findings, Digg started to collect data from their website. Digg found out that 95.5 percent (%) of stories came from manual submission.
Digg told in their blog, "Most weekdays, only one to three stories which reach Top News are submitted by feeds: overall 95.5% of stories on Top News come from manual submission". The main problem is Digg routinely found fantastic stories from RSS feeds that were not getting as much attention as similar stories from manual submission.
Digg processed and analyzed the data they collected and the comments by the Digg community. They thought it carefully and debated the impact of the problem (RSS feed submission): the effect on Top News, Publishers small and large, and their community.
Thoughtful Decision to Stop RSS Feeds Submission in Digg
After careful deliberation and deeply considering the Digg community feedback, Digg decided to remove and stop the RSS Feeds submission. Digg apologized for this big change that might brought inconvenience to some Digg users but Digg thought that this was a win-win situation. Starting February 14, 2011, Digg decided that:
- Digg users will no longer associate their RSS feeds with their accounts,
- new stories in Feeds will no longer automatically submitted to Digg,
- stories submitted through feeds will not be submitted
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