Unimpressed with new Digg Profiles

Got an invite in the mail from a friend who has just joined Digg profiles in its new SocNet guise.....used it as a reason to have a better look (have been on digg some time just to post stories).

Well, 1/2 hour later of pure frustration - they can keep it. Here's why:

(i) If you don't have a blog from a standard platform forget about adding it, it wants far too much detail than is necessary (Broadstuff uses Serendipity open source, hosted by a commercial hoster - digg wants Broadstuff's username and password. Are they nuts?)

(ii) Ditto importing email addresses to create a buddy list via Thunderbird (won't read a Thunderbird ldif address file). Imports AOL or Hotmail though (who uses those if they are serious email users?)

These are basics. I tried to set up a new profile to see if that would help - data required is now more intrusive (dob, address etc), and you can't cancel the profile anywhere as far as I can see.....odd that.

This was all set up very simply on Facebook btw - took me a few minutes. This took about 5x longer to get nowhere. I could be missing some arcana, but its not obvious and frankly I don't have the time or interest to sort it. And that's what is most disheartening...I really, really wanted to see an alternative to Facebook, but this isn't it yet.