Digg has died. Changed it's identity from user generated content to an RSS aggregator for sponsored sites.
Massive revolt with lots moving to reddit.
Ah well the day had to happen... reddit doesn't seem to bad and at least we've still got Slashdot ;)
Just a heads up for anyone promoting GoG or submitting GoG stories round the web ^^

That was the impression I had of digg from the first time I saw it. Whats all this about user generated content?

Once upon a time people would submit a link to Digg and then with enough votes it'd appear on the main page.
That isn't happening anymore - the 'news' posts are basically the RSS feeds for mashable, engadget etc ... lots of story from site X submitted by X rather than story from site X submitted by user Y
If that makes sense?

I'm calling it: a storm in a tea cup. Frankly, I doubt digg is going to be replaced by reddit in the short term. The long term is another matter, but that's the internet for you.

That's bullshit. Digg used to be useless with people gaming the system, but with personalized stories Digg is actually useful now.

I think the problem is that instead of posting decent items, everyone is just whining about not be able to bury things they don't like. So, all we are seeing are the sites where readers are using the digg button on the articles page.

This is a very puzzling change; user-generated content was the whole point of using Digg in the first place, and the ability to both digg and bury stories meant that quality control and content positioning was entirely in the hands of readers (rather than based on how much money the publisher pays). They have taken some interesting ideas from Twitter but threw away everything that was good about the site in the process.

Digg is a dictatorial shit. Never seen an ounce of traffic for my site from it. Well, except when some "poweruser" assole re-dugg my contents, of course. Besides this the majority of things found on that site are plain background noise. Not information, not anything. Just Internet shit at its best. And that's not a compliment....
I'm glad it is ending like this: Reddit, Slashdot or even Hacker News are way better and useful social bookmarking sites.....

All the comments on the digg front page seem to come from reddit.... so why not read reddit?
I was never a big user of either. And I realise that people will always complain about any change (see the recent bbc news redesign - which was a minor style tweak).
But I must admit i'm kind of surprised that digg (one of the biggest sites on the web) would so suddenly change the entire premise and methodology of their site. Minor tweaks and graphical redesigns are one thing - this seems totally different.
Before digg was (in theory, even if gamed) a way to see a wide range of news from lots of different sources. Stuff you might never usually see. Crowd sourced news.
Now it's a way to see news from within your circle, or from a set of selected RSS feeds.
It's google reader meets twitter.
It might be awesome, but it's totally different than it was. Different purpose, different results. It's like facebook suddenly waking up one day and deciding to get rid of Friends.
(as i said, i rarely used digg - but one of my personal gripes is that the web, far from opening us all up to new information and viewpoints, has recently become all about closed circles and preaching to the converted. Everyone just follows their own partisan viewpoint, and gets news from only the things they've subscribed to and their circle of friends. Alternative viewpoints are shut out, ignored and unseen. Digg, in theory, was the opposite of that. Now it's the pinnacle of that.)

Neither Digg nor Reddit where on my daily-read-list of sites, so I can't really comment about them.
However, from the currently 16 latest news on Digg are 12 coming from Reddit and 1 marked as sponsored by Nat Geo. If that move made Digg actually useful now, I'd skip it entirely and go with Reddit.