I was trying to test Digg’s new RSS Feed to Accoung Digging feature and apparently the high traffic from B&E crashed Digg’s servers:

Cute. And while it obviously wasn’t B&E that did the breaking, you have to wonder if it was Digg’s new RSS feed. As Digg incorporates sites like Reddit that pump out thousands of links, you’re talking about a LOT of writing the servers have to do. Then you’ve got the spammers and the forums adding RSS feeds and before you know it- your sister dies of dysentery.

If you ask me the whole concept of using RSS feeds skews the purpose of Digg which allowed it’s users to handle the discovery process. I’m sure Digg is thinking, “Hey, Twitter is stealing our thunder with the whole “retweet” being on every page and the talk of the town,” and they want a way to up the ante. But is this the right direction?

What they’ve done totally changes the experience of both reading and participating with Digg. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. In the very least they need some type of gradual ease into this process and if you ask me, the list of who can and can’t submit their feeds to Digg RSS should be curated by editorial staff. Or better yet, voted on or thumbs upped/down by its members.

Question: Should Digg Caulk the wagon and float it or wait a few days for the water level to go down?