Friday, June 22, 2007

So Digg's comment system changed...

I'm getting really sick of reading some of the nasty things people have been writing about the changes to the comment system on Digg. Like whoever made those changes, I am a programmer too. I deal directly with the people who use the applications I write nearly every day, and I have never had a paying customer tell me that something I've written sucks. No.. They make reccomendations about how to make it better. Why? Because their sole mission in life isn't to piss off and insult the programmers that write it. They want to have a product that works for them becuase thats what they pay for.

The difference between what I do, and what the programmers that made the new comment system work is that they have alot more customers. Its hard enough keeping 10 or 20 users happy let alone the numbers Digg has to deal with. I'm sure eventually the system will get better, and I'm sure they look forward to constructive criticism, but support them, don't tear them down.

And to the guys who wrote it... Good Job, and ignore their attempt to bring you down knowing that they have no clue how the process goes.

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