RethinkDigg showcases what is coming up later this week!

RethinkDigg showcases what is coming up later this week!

RethinkDigg is scheduled to launch the brand new Digg later this week.

The developers have now posted some details on what can be expected.

They highlighted the four major goals behind this update:

We make it easy to find, read, and share the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet right now.
The experience must be fast and thin. Let users go, and they will come back to you. We optimize for return visits, not pageviews per visit.
Build an experience that is native to each device: smart phone, inbox, Web page. Stories must find the user, wherever they are.
Users must be able to share where they and their friends already are — on networks like Facebook, Twitter and email.

RethinkDigg showcases what is coming up later this week!

Users are likely to find one aspect of the launch disappointing. They are not going to launch with a functional commenting platform. They said:

At launch, v1 will not include a commenting system. When Digg was founded in 2004, it was one of the only places on the web to have a conversation with like-minded people. Today, conversations happen everywhere, and the problem that Digg started to solve in 2004 now has no shortage of solutions. We knew that if we were going to support commenting at launch, we had to do it right, and we knew that we couldn’t do it right in six weeks. In the coming weeks we will conduct a few experiments in commenting that will inform more permanent features.