Following up on Kevin’s post from last week, we’ve gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people miss them because they’re isolated. Bringing them back into the stream on the homepage will hopefully bring more life to videos on the site. If you prefer just news or only videos, you can easily customize your view by setting either as your default home page (login and choose ‘Customize’).

To give the page a cleaner look and make it more functional, we’ve also tweaked the page and story summary layouts, streamlined the navigation, and provided more customization options. And with a new one-click bury, you no longer are required to choose a reason when you bury a story — this aims to help us get more feedback from people about what they don’t like (by making it easier to bury) so we can make more accurate determinations about unpopular content.

This update is also an especially important structural change for future content like images, which will also have its own dedicated section.

Thanks to Kurt Wilms and the other Digg developers who’ve helped make all of this happen. As Kevin described, we’ve got loads of stuff coming down the pipes that we’re working on in parallel right now.

As always, let us know what you think. Cheers! Daniel

Hey everyone – over the last few months we’ve been working on some new features based on your feedback. The development team is hard at work on multiple concurrent projects (home page, images, comments, etc.) which we’ll be releasing over the coming months.

We’ll soon be rolling out improvements to the home page that allow you to see all content, including news and videos, on a single page we call “All”. If you prefer just News or Videos, you’ll still be able to switch back to that view and set it as your home page.

We know you’re eagerly awaiting a dedicated images section. In terms of navigation and back-end code, the home page update helps pave the way for images – which we’re excited to roll out in the October timeframe.

I also wanted to let you know that we hear you on the comments system, and we’re working on making changes that speed up the system and make it easier and more lightweight (think podcasting comments).

Other cool stuff coming as well – lots going on right now.

We’ll keep you posted and thanks for your continued input.

Digg on,

Kevin