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Nov 11, 2010

11:26 AM

Breaking: Breaking News

Written by Can Duruk • Filed under Community

Digg is an amazing place to find out what's happening in the world. From the latest videos to trapped miners to midterm elections, it's awesome how news makes its way to Digg.

As part of our effort to surface more great content on Digg, we came up with a feature that allows us to both showcase breaking/interesting stories quickly as well as aggregate stories on a particular topic. Our community team will be managing the content in this module and working hard to identify the best stories out there on Digg. You can see the module on the right side of the Top News, My News and Upcoming pages.

I hope you get as much enjoyment out of using the module as I did working on it - thanks also to Will, Jamie, Tyson, and Mike for helping get this out.

Thanks everyone, and happy digging!

Can D.

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badserver
I so Digg it. The Digg v4 experience is becoming interesting again. I hope you guys get the traffic back too.
25diggs
minnull
I've decided to come back on board recently since the site does seem to be heading back in the right direction. Save the community, save the site.
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heidenreich12
I feel the same way. I have officially started coming here again. Reminds me of the good ol' days. Keep up the good work, and try not to get off track this time :)
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l0ner
I love the load more button that loads no more comments.
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ltgenpanda
Thanks for the regular roll-out of new features. I would like to hear from digg staff about two issues: 1. Nice to see that digg staff are now regularly commenting, but how about digg staff pay a daily visit to the Digg API support group? Questions more than 10 days are waiting. In the past I have written emails to the community manager about the same issue, which was then passed on to others and for a short time, there were timely responses. Now back to square one. The API has a ton of things to be fixed and unless digg staff want to engage in a constructive dialog with people who use the API, it will just stay the same. 2. This issue has been brought up by so many people several times. I have raised it numerous times and have been told that the fix is very close. But some staff seem to not even recognize the issue. So one more time ..... Clicking the upcoming tab on the site and sorting by newest stories OR getting the same via the API shows stories submitted from about 10 minutes ago, with about one story a minute or so. All stories there will have at-least two diggs. But the fact is (you can see through the stream), there are much more stories submitted, but they are simply not included in the upcoming tab or the API. Is there a reason to select only a few stories and leave out a majority of them? Or is it a bug ( as agreed to by several staff in the past http://digg.com/news/technology/digg_brings_back_user_submissions_page/20100930160938:d607cf41f95f42ed91abf6c441775edb ) This bug has existed ever since digg rolled out the upcoming tab. No matter what, Digg is surely on a steady progress since the V4 launch and soon we will be back to where we were!

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