There's something about them calling it "Digg v1" that really annoys me. Digg version 1 was... the original Digg, no? I dunno what particular version of Digg this thing is, except that as a reboot of an existing property/brand it's obviously not version 1.
It might be their version 1, but calling it "v1" in public makes it feel like the old Soviet pictures where the leaders who had fallen out of favor were airbrushed out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Sov...). "Nyet, Comrade! Commissar Rose was never in charge of this tractor plant!"
It just feels really disrespectful to the original Digg team, at least to me.
I think they mean v1 as in not beta or mvp. Also I have to admit it's good! However it is a waiting game now to see what sort of community builds around it.
It's a reboot of the franchise. Just like the new Star Trek movie wasn't called "Star Trek 11" but simply "Star Trek." It would be odd to keep the same version numbering scheme when they threw away the old system, no?
And it then went on to several more version over the years, so even if it started at 0 (which is ridiculous, this is version numbers not arrays) it would still end up at more than v1.
It might be their version 1, but calling it "v1" in public makes it feel like the old Soviet pictures where the leaders who had fallen out of favor were airbrushed out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Sov...). "Nyet, Comrade! Commissar Rose was never in charge of this tractor plant!"
It just feels really disrespectful to the original Digg team, at least to me.