Digg's unpopular version 4 redesign last summer has put a big damper on the site's traffic, but the Digg team has come around and started to make changes that are helping to bring users back. The latest smart move: banning RSS feed submissions. No longer can every single post from a site be auto-submitted to Digg via RSS. According to Mashable, Digg's product manager, Mike Cieri, just informed publishers that only 4.5% of the Top News stories on Digg were coming from RSS submissions. The numbers indicated that most submitted feeds were basically a whole lot of spam, and that f iltering the spammers was draining Digg's resources. Plus, when stories were submitted automatically via a feed, it took away Digg users' opportunities to submit the stories themselves. The obvious solution was to shut off the feed feature altogether.
Hopefully, this will lead to a resurgence of good content and user interest on Digg, and help the site become more relevant going forward.
Digg bans RSS feed submissions to decrease spam originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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