Digg

Here at Digg, we love open source. Many of our engineers are contributors back to projects like Cassandra, Puppet and Hudson and for the past couple of months we have been doubling down on our use of Drupal. Digg About and the forthcoming developers site are built upon Drupal. Drupal was choosen for its flexibility and active community allowing us to build sites quickly. We are confident that Drupal will continue to be a force in the future and are anxiously awaiting the release of Drupal 7. To those ends, we have decided to release a couple of brand new modules for Drupal.

• Diggable module is written and maintained by Digg engineers and is the official way to integrate your Drupal site with Digg.
• Digg Login is a module to give your site users the ability to log into your Drupal site using their Digg user name and password over OAuth. It is built using PEAR packages
  • http://pear.php.net/package/Services_Digg2
  • http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2/
  • http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_OAuth/

  which are written and maintained by our own engineers.

The advantage of the Digg Login module is that your users do not have to maintain separate passwords providing them another easy and simple way to log into your site. It is written to ensure any customizations that have been added to the user registration form are preserved and to be filled out by your new users. All it takes to setup is to download the PEAR packages and setup a Digg Application.

For more on how we use open source Digg visit our Open Source page.