Digg v3.0 to Launch Monday
Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch reports that the long awaited update to the insanely popular Digg news and social bookmarking site will be coming on Monday. Furthermore Mike has scored some detailed screenshots of the new interface and what it brings. The largest part of the update, created by SilverOrange (of Firefox fame), is that there are more sections of the site. It won’t just be tech news anymore - there will be sections for science, entertainment, gaming, videos and world & business. Digg had better buy some more servers, that’s for certain. Digg currently uses 75 servers only for the technology section, so in 6 months they will probably have 200 servers given their terrific rate of growth. I for one can’t wait to see the new additions to the only site, other than search engines, I visit 20 or more times per day.
Well … 75 servers for what is *theoretically* just technology. While the new sections will definitely encourage more submissions, in reality I think this will just allow for everything to spread out (and hopefully cut down on flames).
That’s great news, I’ll be visiting Digg more often then. I’m into technology but not THAT into it. Having a wider spread of topics will drive more traffic to their site, seeing now that others like Netscape are trying to barge onto their turf.