Comments on: Some Digg Functionality is Broken … Ohhhh It Hurts.

By: p0ss

p0ss — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:19:55 +0000

I should have said:

At home, I have none of these extra problems, only the ones you have mentioned.

By: p0ss

p0ss — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:17:37 +0000

you think you’ve got problems? Thats nothing.

I can’t Comment.

I can’t Shout

I can’t Submit

I have to log in multple times each thread just to digg other peoples comments, which is all I can still do, since I also have the problems you mention.

I use IE6 at work (SOE, not my fault) and encounter these problems greater then 95% of the time. Occasionally a comment will get through, but its so infrequent that Its not even worth trying any more.

I’ve discovered that if I restart IE, open only digg, log in quickly, keep IE front and center, without opening any other sites. I can comment slightly more often. maybe %20 of the time, but only one comment and then the whole proccess must be repeated.

imho Restarting IE 5 times to comment is not a viable workaround.

I would like to assure you that I am not exagerating these issues. At home, on Firefox 2, I have none of these issues.

By: seeker135

seeker135 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:20:16 +0000

Digg makes me log in 3-4 times/visit, tells me to reload page I’ve already “dugg” on, various other annoying stuff. Moving to Reddit.com soon. This is too much like work.

By: Victoria BC Photographer

Victoria BC Photographer — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:02:55 +0000

Digg is so overrated… now sphinn 🙂 But nice catch Jeff 🙂

By: AyeRoxor

AyeRoxor — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:03:15 +0000

Sphinns? GHEYYYYYYY

By: Todd Howe

Todd Howe — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:04:29 +0000

Another big change, inadvertent or not, is that while I used to (judiciously) send out a shout or two a day to my friends list – and I’d say about 100 people accepted incoming shouts – the shout feature has now been broken or capped to around 15 shouts without any announcement. To promote a story, I now have to shout in batches of fifteen. Ohhhh it hurts… has anyone else experienced this?

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:34 +0000

CAPTCHA is also semi-BROKEN

Type up a comment in a Digg post. If you take LONGER than say 120-180 seconds, Digg invalidates the Captcha but does NOT update the captcha image.

The WORKAROUND is to COPY your comment to the clipboard, refresh the page, FIND the original comment you were attempting to reply to (which may be buried by this time), and then PASTE in your reply. Reloading forced a new captcha, so you’re working again.

This is the WORST BUG EVER and not fixed by Digg. If it’s NOT a bug, maybe they should shorten the max characters in a reply.

By: [GBG]

[GBG] — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:49:54 +0000

“If you have new submissions, this is the time to ’shout it’ out to your friends if you haven’t already.”

I would do. but shouts seem to be broken too.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:46:14 +0000

I am having a problem with the comments section. When I try to submit one, the box just grays out and nothing happens. I emailed Digg Support, and they said it’s a known issue that they’re working on. It’s pretty annoying.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:36:30 +0000

I’ve been seeing the same issues for recent submissions from my site.