<story><title>The new Digg</title><url>http://digg.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>From a technical point of view this &quot;redesign&quot; scares me a bit:&lt;p&gt;All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t employ canonical or robots.txt.&lt;p&gt;They have character encoding issues. (&quot;&apos;Superbird&apos; Discovered&quot;)&lt;p&gt;They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains &quot;celebrity news&quot;, which doesn&apos;t appear anywhere on their site.&lt;p&gt;They hardcode CSS with styles on div&apos;s. They don&apos;t use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.&lt;p&gt;They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete &apos;type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&apos; on script tags).&lt;p&gt;The layout breaks without javascript on, and the &quot;upcoming stories&quot; section doesn&apos;t get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site&apos;s functionality stops working.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.&lt;p&gt;They left debugging and TODO&apos;s statements in their javascript.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $(&quot;.story-image-marquee-standard&quot;).empty().html(&quot;&amp;#60;img src=&apos;http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif&apos; alt=&apos;&apos; /&amp;#62;&quot;);
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tries to load content from a discontinued website.&lt;p&gt;A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL&apos;s are also stored inside the page contents.&lt;p&gt;URL&apos;s are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).&lt;p&gt;Links to the same article are both with &apos;target=&quot;_blank&quot;&apos; and without.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t use microformats or schema.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The layout breaks without javascript on&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see this bandied about on reviews of various sites, and I continue to believe it doesn&apos;t matter. If you have Javascript turned off and a page doesn&apos;t load, you should know why that page isn&apos;t loading. It&apos;s because you deliberately broke it for yourself.</text></comment>
<story><title>The new Digg</title><url>http://digg.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blauwbilgorgel</author><text>From a technical point of view this &quot;redesign&quot; scares me a bit:&lt;p&gt;All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t employ canonical or robots.txt.&lt;p&gt;They have character encoding issues. (&quot;&apos;Superbird&apos; Discovered&quot;)&lt;p&gt;They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains &quot;celebrity news&quot;, which doesn&apos;t appear anywhere on their site.&lt;p&gt;They hardcode CSS with styles on div&apos;s. They don&apos;t use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.&lt;p&gt;They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete &apos;type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&apos; on script tags).&lt;p&gt;The layout breaks without javascript on, and the &quot;upcoming stories&quot; section doesn&apos;t get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site&apos;s functionality stops working.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.&lt;p&gt;They left debugging and TODO&apos;s statements in their javascript.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $(&quot;.story-image-marquee-standard&quot;).empty().html(&quot;&amp;#60;img src=&apos;http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif&apos; alt=&apos;&apos; /&amp;#62;&quot;);
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tries to load content from a discontinued website.&lt;p&gt;A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL&apos;s are also stored inside the page contents.&lt;p&gt;URL&apos;s are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).&lt;p&gt;Links to the same article are both with &apos;target=&quot;_blank&quot;&apos; and without.&lt;p&gt;They don&apos;t use microformats or schema.org.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verroq</author><text>Apart from all the old pages being 404 (which is a huge mishap). Nitpicking on html is a fun and amusing pastime, but unless the page is deformed in some way, it falls into the &quot;shit nobody cares about&quot; category.</text></comment>