Article submitted by iClimber
Digg, which is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites has a new site, courtesy of Betaworks. The new site is still a news aggregator but its layout now provides space for image-rich features. It currently does not allow commenting, which was a foundational feature of the original Digg, but the new bosses say that’s coming soon. Other things that are lacking? A community, which is kind of a big deal. It seems that three workers are currently moderating/approving submissions to Digg, and that users don’t have the ability, at the moment, to decide for themselves what is popular and what is not.
With the ink still drying on the acquisition papers, Betaworks got busy with RethinkDigg. This site asked Digg users to submit ideas about what the new Digg should include. The response obtained was significant, close to 4,000 responses were registered. The new Digg now looks more like Facebook (it has pictures!) and Twitter (real-time capabilities). One downside is that the 14 million Digg pages that were indexed by Google before the acquisition are no longer available and are displaying “404 Error.”
The new Digg went online August 1st. If you’re wondering about the comment capabilities, Betaworks’ brass says that with it being such an integral component of the Digg experience, they didn’t want to rush its development for the sake of meeting the strict August 1st deadline. Many long-time Digg fans will be hoping Betaworks has something very good up its sleeve for this matter.