At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.
The new version of the website is not yet available. However, if you visit New.Digg.com, you can sign up for the alpha and see a preview of what the new Digg will look like in the background. Mr. Adelson told the crowd that the site was “five years in the making.”
While the company didn’t reveal much about the new website, it seems that there will be a cleaner interface, more personalization options, the ability to submit news items with one click, and brings back the leaderboard for top users.
Digg’s famous website buttons are also getting revamped. In fact, if you Digg an article on Mashable, you will see the new buttons in action, as we are currently testing them.
We’re going to try to put up a video of the announcement, along with more details on the new version of Digg as soon as we can.
Tags: digg, New Digg, trending
