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Digg’s latest update, will it bring the hardcore back?

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Digg recently made some changes to their design. At first, the changes may be a bit difficult to spot, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that there is now a more streamlined interface at the top of the page, with the search now hidden behind a button. The profile stats of the past have returned and the list of topics is now back as a list just below the main navigation.

I think these changes, along with the return of the bury button, will help Digg to regain some of the readers who defected to Reddit when the universally panned Digg design launched last year. However, I think it’s probably going to end up being too little too late and I don’t think there’s anything Kevin Rose and the team can do to bring the site back to its heyday. That ship has sailed, and they should have accepted any offer they had for the company when they had the chance.

The site may end up at the point where they only bother keeping it going in some fashion because they need it to be able to continue with the extremely successful Diggnation podcast on Revision 3. Without that, I don’t know if they would take the effort to keep it going.

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Digg have reintroduced the upcoming sect…

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Digg have reintroduced the upcoming section of the site by adding a third tab at the top of the page. It just shows that if a bunch of obnoxious users who think they own the site cause chaos because someone changed a few simple things, they all get their own way..

Kevin Rose has stated recently that upcoming page views accounted for half a percent of the total, but now they’re making it a big focus point on the page due to this pressure put on them. They’ve been very quick in making the changes users have not so politely requested. Maybe now that the section is less hidden away than it was before, it will have a profound effect on page views. They’ll surely increase considerably, but maybe only at first. I think in the end if they really believe that it’s right to make a change, they shouldn’t just cave in so quickly.