Digg V4 Hands-on: A Better Digg, But Is It Enough?

Given a tumultuous month for the company, which has seen leadership shake your very high level, and described it as privileged information to an exodus of key employees, version four is more than a restructuring – is actually a resumption of Digg brand.


The answer is a resounding yes. He does a lot of work to seep in through the large number of papers presented by its source. It's faster, cleaner and easier of the two stories on Digg, as presented. The most obvious question is whether this new version, which was ridiculed by society over the past year, is actually better. But even with these improvements, it feels like the same site Digg has been a few years ago, probably did little to silence critics of the site.

A brief history of time has elapsed since the last major review lessonHow Digg? Try to June 2006, when the third version was announced at a bar party, and then launched publicly a month later. Digg v3 has proposed a makeover that allow users to customize the categories have seen the first page. These two additions have been reared in separate sections of the site – two that are combined in just a video section where the site has added a category of images. So the biggest news is the inclusion of video podcasting and could play right into Digg pages of history.

Between yesterday and today Digg has had a bit of attention, such as: • a complete rewrite of the code in the MySQL site that crashed in favor of greater decentralization Cassandra • • a search engine from a review called DiggBar toolbar vaccine, which has a great controversy in the year or so there.

There was also the launching of mobile applications, the user revolt on freedom of expression, and other rumors of a takeover.

Apart from the users of Digg, you can import people from Twitter, Facebook and Google. This process is actually the first thing users see when connecting to Digg, however, although it can be ignored. new followers / following paradigm, and social news service similar to Twitter and Facebook fan pages, Digg users can now have a content source and see if new stories about this particular site have been submitted.

It is simply a list of the most recent popular oo people follow you – as you get on the news service on Facebook, if you were to filter out only the links. The mode of operation, Digg is breaking Profiles category. Each of these categories can be followed and unfollowed, the first of the new elements which means that these contacts will be visible to the new My Digg "News.

What is the importance of the new page "News from Digg is quite clear, that is the default page when you visit Digg.com when connected. Login really need to click on" Home News tab to see the users site to register. This is not even something that can change radically simplified Digg user configuration panel.

Digg has also added an extra level of customization in the sidebar of the site, which now met the links at the top by people who are below. They are listed in order of how many of his friends Dugg special bond. And clicking on the pages of history will show that the friends in the chronological order of the excavation.

This allows you to add RSS feeds on your site is online, so that when you post something new here, you are automatically sent to Digg. Self-presentation of contentWhat is perhaps one of the most important innovations in the wings of Digg 4 is the self-presentation of content.

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