Why DiggBar is not a good thing

April 9th, 2009

Social networking site, Digg, is awesome. But we all know it. Lately, Kevin Rose announced on Digg’s Blog a DiggBar. In fact, I could just link up to perfect John Gruber’s tweet, perfectly describes why DiggBar is wrong, but I decided to say few words more.

We all hate to be somehow limited – no samples required, I guess. In DiggBar’s case, we are receiveing many limits. To start with the most pissing one, the URL. While we are browsing stories this stupid thing on top of the page totally changes the address of the page, to digg.com/fewunrecognizablecharacters. Then, we’d like to share a link to a hillarious article about… well, anything, and target of this link doesn’t have a Digg account. Paste him Digg’s URL described above – we are also spamming him with DiggBar, showing him buttons he won’t understand, because he has no freakin’ idea, what the hell is Digg. Original URL is ALWAYS better.

Another sample: space. DiggBar takes 46 pixels of space, that should be used on a proper website. Hate it, period.
And last, but not least – as John said, framing someone else’s site, is simply WRONG.

Even if you want to live with it because of DiggBar’s features… they’re not cool enough. ‘Digg it’, standard ‘Share on Twitter/Facebook/whatever’ button, ‘Bury’, and few more. Sorry, you have to try harder.