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Joyce Carpenter

Philosophy of Technology

What is wrong at Digg?

I spend a fair amount of time at Digg. Recently the general slowness, occasional downtime, and numerous errors are starting to push me toward other sites.

In the last few minutes, I gotten this twice -- one when I first tried to submit an item and then when Digg was supposedly checking for duplicates.

I especially love the wording here. Of course I reached this error in error. I wasn't aiming for it, so it must be an error, right? Can you say tautology three times quickly?

The other error that I've been getting A LOT is:

I hereby publicly apologize to all of my Digg Friends whose submissions I tried to Digg, but got too tired of refreshing the pages to continue with process. That would be over 10 stories today, and that or more for each day of the last week or so. grrrr.

Update:  Of course, I tried to submit this post to Digg.  I've now been staring at this for the last 10 minutes: 

Someone else's turn to try.   

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