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Digg.com Decided to Remove RSS Feeds Submission

Recently on February 14, 2011, Digg.com, one of the giant social news website in the net, decided to remove RSS Feeds submission. On the past year, version 4 of the Digg website added a feature where users can submit the RSS Feeds of their website or blog to their Digg account. RSS Feeds enabled Digg users to automatically update their web/blog posts to their Digg account without manually submitting to Digg. But months passed by, Digg observed problems regarding the content stories discoverability and top news quality.

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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"Digg.com Decided to Remove RSS Feeds Submission" was written by Mary under the Internet category. It has been read 2174 times and generated 1 comments. The article was created on and updated on 15 March 2011.
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