Kevin Rose is killing the DiggBar

Completely agree. It is terribly annoying being linked to a website, looking up at the url, and seeing some bullshit aggregator or other url-forwarder. I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, and immediately bounce.

I'd love to see the same thing happen to Hootsuite's Ow.ly URL shortening service, which frames content in a similar way to the Diggbar.

I wonder if Kevin has done this because he is so in tune with what the geek-crowd think and if so has he made this decision for the right reasons? The geeks here in HN and elsewhere are always going to complain the loudest about things like the DiggBar. However, Digg is trying to go mainstream - do the normals really care about the DiggBar? Presuming they represent &#62;99% of Digg's desired audience should they really make a change for the 1% that are moaning? Admittedly I have no idea what the point of the Digg bar is because I too hate it, but I wonder if amongst the normals it is achieving its business goal and therefore should stay?<p>Just playing devil's advocate.

Even if all Rose does is re-energize his core audience and get people talking about Digg again...that'd be pretty terrific.

The first thing I did after the DiggBar was released, was to turn it off.

Everything I look at through Digg is frustratingly slow to open. I'm presuming this is something to do with the DiggBar rather than the sites having trouble coping with the Digg traffic. I'll be glad to see its back.

Easily the most likable thing Kevin Rose has ever done. Not just the killing of the DiggBar, but the unbanning of banned sites, and this little bit:<p><i>Also with the launch of the new Digg will be unbanning all previously banned domains. While we will apply automated filters to prevent malware/virus/TOS violations, no other restrictions will be placed on content.</i><p>This actually gives me hope for Digg.

I agree that forcing content to be framed with the 'diggbar' is annoying/wrong/bad/etc, but I kind of like it as an optional feature. It can be very handy when you open a bunch of links from the main page at once, and then forget what the headline was or want to check out the comments quickly.

Diggbar is dead, long live Diggbar: "That said, we will continue to iterate on our browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, and IE. Look for seriously revamped versions of those in a few months.”

This is a nice first step to common sense changes to Digg. Features often seem like great ideas during brainstorming sessions, but don't rise to expectations when they are actually implemented.

Well, now we know which were the disagreements between Kevin and Jay.

Digg is nothing short of pollution of the Internet.

i go to digg, click on some link, see a new page. so what is this diggbar? (hey, don't look at me strange, i use reddit..)

How about the misleading advertisement 3rd down next?