The Digg staff must be going absolutely mad today. After launching the much anticipated version 4 of Digg.com last week, the site has experienced a fair share of bugs. This is understandable though due to the sheer volume of visitors the site experienced during the relaunch. Long time user of the site have also revolted over the fact that publishers are allowed to post their RSS feeds directly to the site. Thus taking away the crowd sourced nature of the site. Which leads us to today’s latest mishap, Digg clone and longtime rival Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg by gaming the new algorithm that allows RSS feed posting. The front page of the site is now predominantly Reddit news. This is a PR disaster, and major engineering fail. Welcome to the new Reddit.

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