At a Diggtownhall meeting earlier this month, Digg’s founder, Kevin Rose, and CEO, Jay Adelson, announced that Digg’s shout feature would be removed sometime this week and replaced with a share feature. This change just went live on the popular social media site. Users on Digg used to be able to share stories on Digg with other users right on the site, a feature that was often abused. Now, Digg’s users can only email stories, or share them on Facebook and Twitter.
According to the announcement on the Digg blog, the Digg team “listened to your feedback, crunched some user data, and decided to remove shouts. As some of you know, shouts have been a controversial feature since their inception and considering the ever-changing landscape of the social web, we’ve elected to remove them in favor of more popular options.”
To share stories, users can now hover over the ‘share’ link on the digg homepage and select the service they want to share the stories on (email, Facebook, or Twitter). Digg also removed the ‘blog this’ feature, which, according to Digg’s Jen Burton only saw really low usage.
For a more detailed discussion of the pros and cons of shouts on Digg, please see our earlier report from last week.
