Stuff I Want: A more robust Digg RSS feed

One more for tonight.

I'd been checking out Digg since just before version 2.0 dropped.  It's a ton of fun, and a great place for blogging fodder.  To save time, I decided to subscribe to the front page feed, and I check out the long tail stuff when I have some free minutes.

My beef: the RSS feed lacks a lot of the good stuff.

For one thing, there's no link to TFA (the fucking article) in the RSS.  I have to the Digg story, and then jump off from there.  Let me read it first, then decide if I want to Digg it and discuss it later.  Slashdot has this issue also in their feed.  Maybe I'm spoiled by MetaFliter and BoingBoing.

A feature of the website that I like is the Blog This button, as previously mentioned.  It would be cool if they could drop that button into the RSS feed, seeing as how I don't have that ability in my aggregator (see previous rant).

Now, say I've already seen the story elsewhere and haven't been to Digg yet to vote on it.  I should be able to digg it right from my aggregator.  Nope, no digg button.  That needs to be dropped in also.

This is probably the least complicated thing I've whined about tonight.  I'm sure that the reason that the RSS lacks the stuff I want is to drive page views and increased monitization opportunity.  I can't fault the cats at Digg for that, but it would be a nice concession.  I do visit the site, guys.  No, I haven't done a lot of digging recently.  I've been busy.  Maybe I'll hit some later tonight. 

And thus ends my planned software rants.  I'd been wanting to start these since June 3, according to my notes.  It feels good to catch up.

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