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From former Presidents to sports gods to the

Everybody remembers their first time and mine was January 15, 2009.

update:The best sort has been temporarily turned off pending a bug fix

update 2:The best sort has been turned back on

Trucking right along, the Digg team has a couple of new site changes to discuss which are either going live today or have already been live for a couple of days.

• We are running an experiment with a Digg Top News algorithm change,
• we have made it easier to find the best comments on a story,
• downvoted comments have more visibility, and
• we have improved user suggestions.

Let's dive a little deeper into these changes.

As many of you know, we've been working hard over here at Digg.

At Digg we have substantially rebuilt our infrastructure over the last year in what we call "Digg V4". This blog post gives a high-level view of the systems and technologies involved and how we use them. Read on to find out the secrets of the Digg engineers!

Welcome to our first guest blog post! We're looking for community members with a true passion for social media.

Got some love from a longtime Digg user at SXSW: “If I don’t start my day with Digg, it’s not a good day.” We’ve had some great comments like this from many of our users, and several questions at the

Building on our recent launches of My News Trending and removing RSS, we have another batch of improvements launching today on Digg:

1. streamlining the experience for new users,
2. making it possible to filter your My News Recent by activity type,
3. easier searching with an updated site header,
4. improved About site with better navigation.

Now let's dive a little bit deeper into these changes and what motivated them.