Hey everyone, I’m sure you’ll all agree that 2008 was a crazy year, so I thought I would take a moment to recap some Digg highlights. Our traffic has nearly doubled to more than 35 Million visitors per month, and we now receive more than 20,000 story submissions per day. We worked hard to continue to [...]

Hi everyone, We wanted to address some complaints about weaknesses in our duplicate detection mechanism and provide some insights on upcoming changes to the Digg promotional algorithm. I head up Research and Development at Digg and my team is responsible for many of the advances in the promotional algorithm and the logic that powers features [...]

Hey all – We’re super stoked to announce that we’ve created Twitter feeds across several Digg topics, so you can get popular stories delivered right to Twitter. This provides another way to customize the types of stories you receive from Digg. The Twitter feeds will update as stories become popular, so when, say, a new story [...]

Hey all, We’re always looking for opportunities to improve the delivery of relevant and interesting content on Digg. Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out changes to the design of the individual story pages. The new design will feature related stories based on keywords and a list of top stories with the same topic [...]

A historic moment in history has occurred with the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. For many, this moment was shared with the digg community that included a furious level of digging and commenting. In fact, election night generated the most traffic and activity in the history of Digg. At [...]

Hey guys - The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year. Come raise a pint, take a picture or two in the Photoboof, and hear some cool announcements - the perfect way to spend your Wednesday night. In case you haven’t [...]

Hey Everyone, Our next Townhall meeting is Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm ET/5pm PT and we’d like to hear from you. Similar to past Townhalls, you submit and vote up the questions and topics you would like to see answered. Jay and I will then address the most popular questions from the community live via webcast [...]

The newly remodeled Digg Shop is now open for business! We’ve updated our most popular hoodies and tees, and added new styles, colors and other cool stuff. Also added are laptop messenger bags, 1337 Digg t-shirts and boxer shorts. If you have more good ideas for new t-shirt designs, we want to hear about [...]

Hey All, Last week, former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore was our second Digg Dialogg guest. For those of you who didn’t catch the program on Current TV this weekend, you can watch it online here and at Current. The Digg community submitted over 1,000 questions, ranging topics from the election [...]

Hey Everyone, A few months ago we successfully kicked off Digg Dialogg with Nanci Pelosi at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. For those of you who missed it, Digg Dialogg gives the community an opportunity to submit and vote up questions to be posed to influential individuals and leaders of the moment. These questions [...]

Hey everyone, Many of you have been following election news on Digg, including our visit to the conventions last month, Digg Dialogg with Nancy Pelosi, and regular updates to Digg the Candidates. The upcoming US Presidential Election this Tuesday, November 4th will be one of the most exciting and closely watched in recent history. We [...]

Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Paul, Sr. Systems Engineer and resident Puppetmaster for Digg. “Puppetmaster?” I hear you say, “What do puppets have to do with Digg?” Well, that’s what I thought I’d write about today. To answer the question, it isn’t “puppets”, it’s Puppet, the open-source configuration management tool, and a relatively new addition [...]

Hi all - Later today Digg will be undergoing some significant updates, but upon first glance, it may seem that nothing has changed. That’s because the changes included in the coming release are 100% under the hood. For the last few months, Digg’s developers have been heads down scrubbing, cleaning, porting and improving the core [...]

In the next week or so, we’ll be closing down the podcasts section and folding it into the video section of Digg. We’ll also be retiring the old Digg Spy. Both of these features have become outmoded as Digg has grown and as a result they have a very small number of users (under 1,000) [...]

Hey everyone, The Digg crew is coming to London this very Friday, as part of the closing party for the Future of Web Apps conference. We’ll be at the Fox from 8:30pm ’til midnight, so come out and say hi if you’re around. We’re partnering with FOWA London and Revision3 for a live Diggnation directly followed by [...]

Hey all – Digg enforces its Terms of Use so that Digg remains a vibrant community of people committed to sharing and discovering great content. Everyone who uses Digg agrees to abide by the TOU, which maintains a positive experience on Digg for all community members by prohibiting spam, porn, gaming, hate speech etc. In many cases, [...]

Calling all Diggers, If you’re keen to work at Digg, here are 8 solid reasons to send us your resume right away: 8. You’ll Digg the DigDug When Kurt isn’t solving complex infrastructure problems, he’s working on his DigDug high score. Think you can beat it? Think again. And while you’re thinking, how about sending in that resume? 7. [...]

Hey All — Today is a big day for Digg. We’re announcing a major expansion effort – the largest we’ve undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, we’re accelerating many of the programs that we’ve been working on over the past several months, including investments in infrastructure, new feature development, international [...]

Hey Everyone - A while back Katie Couric asked for some questions from the Digg community as she was heading out to the political conventions. You all suggested some great ones, and tonight she poses some Digg questions to both John McCain and Barack Obama. Tune in tonight to the CBS Evening News with [...]

Welcome back to the Digg technology blog, where you get to read about what the tech people at Digg are thinking about. Let’s get right into it, shall we? How Many Databases does Digg Have? As Joe hinted in his earlier blog entry, the particulars of how many machines Digg has is one of the most often [...]

We often get asked how Digg works from a technology perspective, so wanted to shed some insight on this with our first post from the newly-launched technology blog. We’ll be posting regularly to give you a peek at what’s under the hood from the Digg development teams. Ask Ron - our Systems Engineering Lead - the [...]

Hey all, We’re growing up so fast…sort of. Today we launched two new official Digg Blogs: Community (this one) and Technology. We’ll still use our main blog for big news and other important announcements, but because we love you and you love us, we thought we’d add a few new sections to keep you in the [...]

Hey All, A few folks have been discussing the use of scripts on Digg recently, so I wanted to jump into the conversations that happened this weekend. Scripts/bots place additional load on Digg servers (slowing things down for everyone), so using them is a Terms of Use violation that will result in losing access to [...]

Hey Everyone - We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment (sans editors), who are taking action to change the world in cool ways. To do this, we’re launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.” The concept is simple – [...]

Hey everyone, We’re calling for questions for our next virtual Townhall which will take place next Thursday, August 28th at 1:30 pm PST/4:30 EST. This Townhall will be a bit of a twist, as it will be webcast live from the Digg Stage at The Big Tent at the Democratic National Convention in Colorado. (We’ll also be [...]