Recently Digg.com has been under a lot of heat.  This is mostly due to their lack of speed to fix issues with their site.  Whether it be for a picture section or their comment system.  Today, I read that digg's brand new comment system doesn't work for Opera users and crashes their browsers. . . uhh WHAT!?

A web developer for the site said:

"But, I wanted to chime in and let you know why Opera wasn't tested. As we're planning releases and testing we have to base some decisions on numbers. Unfortunately, Opera users account for such a small number (less than 1%) of visits to Digg, it's not a browser we can pro actively test on."

Wow, talk about a cop out.  1% of the digg visits must amass to about 5000 to 25,000 users.  It's not like Opera is so no name browser.  Every web developer tests with Firefox, IE6,7, and Opera.  That is the BARE minimum. 

I really do hope that a year from now we look at their traffic stats and see that Digg lost 1/4th of its traffic due to their lack of competence.  Everything they do is over complicated since they became "big".  This applies to EVERY single comment system iteration.    I refer to this as the "Digg way".

Defined as being overly complicated to be unique or an attempt to impress others with their "skillz".

The comment system they just put into effect is just as flawed as the rest.  They overcomplicated it and screwed it all up once again.  During a page load, it looks like the root threads load first, then the replies to those threads load in waves.  So if you are viewing a comment midway down the page. . .expect to lose your spot because data is still loading in waves and it will screw up your positioning. 

Neat huh?