The New Digg v3.0
I’ll make this rather brief because I know everyone and their gay uncle are writing about this on their geocities hosted blog this morning, but I like the new Digg. (Your welcome for me sparing you from the soon to be way overused line: “I Digg the new Digg!”) To me, this is what Digg should have been from the start. I was always a bit luke warm but with the much needed addition of non-tech categories, I’m on board. Digg has finally grown in to a truly useful site, instead of a geeky / script kiddie / G4 Fanboy hangout. If Google was running this and not Kevin Rose the previous year or two Digg as been around would have been the “beta” and this would be version 1.0 and not 3.0.
So what do I like about the new Digg? Well the AJAX-no-refresh interface is nice, and the extra profile settings are cool (I like that I can see who has made me their “friend”), and I like the ability to remove topics from my screen and
and see “Today’s Top” in addition to “This Very Minute’s Top”. However, all those shiny features boil off and you are left with the real meat of the upgrade: The expanded categories. Thats all it took. They should have launched this way.
Note: Because I save my login information to Digg, I didn’t notice right away but apparently you can only see the extra categories if you are a registered Beta user. I don’t know if just registering gives you beta access or I somehow got on the Beta list for being a member for so long. (I’ve been a member from the very start. My username is just “mike” if that illustrates how small the userbase was when I registered.) Either way, I just wanted to warn you if you go running off and can’t see any of the shiny goodness.