It’s so silly… they should either be raising the bar for stories reaching the front page, or allow people to subscribe to a feed of, say, the top 30 stories of the day.
It’s balls!
You know why? Firstly, Bloglines only stores the most recent 200 feed items. Secondly, 99% of Digg front page news is shit.
I’m actually going to unsubscribe soon and move back to del.icio.is Popular RSS. I unsubscribed from that because of the same issue (minus the rubbish), but I get the feeling del.icio.us’s popular page may have matured beyond Digg now.
I suppose that del.icio.us users feel that something is valuable when they bookmark it, unlike over at Digg where things get dugg even if they present no value at all.
The problem here is that you feel like you’re taking your finger off of the pulse of the Internet when you unsubscribe from Digg, and I do sort of worry that I’ll miss out. But, then again, Digg is now bollocks. What exactly will I be missing?
Bah!
It’s the same for me, I don’t have the time to read through all of those stories, and as you mentioned there is a lot of BS on the front page.
Greetings
First, Bloglines will stop updating when the feed hits 200. So it doesn’t show the most recent items. This is bad. In my opinion, Bloglines is by far the best online rss reader, but this is just lame.
Second, yeah… digg sucks