New Digg will start on Wednesday: “beautiful, with pictures and without advertising”

After the symbol of Web 2.0 got to the new owners, they decided to make a full restart of the site, which will be held on Wednesday, reports TechCrunch . Today, a few weeks after the Digg acquisition , Betaworks showed the first layouts and screenshots of the new version of the site. The new owner intends to make Digg "beautiful, with pictures and without advertising."

The new design represents a significant departure from the current look of the site. The main page underwent a complete rework, and it was decided to get rid of the old features of Newsrooms and DiggBar . In the new version of Digg, the old Upcoming page will also appear, where users can see which posts will soon appear on the main page. In the new site, according to the new Digg team, there will be three main sections: main news, popular and upcoming.

After restarting the site will not have a commenting system. According to TechCrunch , the team apparently decided that the normal implementation of this function would take more than six weeks, which she gave herself to restart the site. Digg promises to experiment with comments this week.
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As for the voting system, which has always been the basis of Digg , the new owners say that users will be able to vote for posts, but the algorithm will also take into account the links to them on Facebook and Twitter (this change was planned by the old team before launching the fourth version). Voices on the site will take precedence, but links to other social sites will be perceived as “important signals” that will be followed closely by a team of moderators.

In addition to the new web version of Digg , the team will also launch a new mobile version of the site and a new Digg app for the iPhone .