Hey all,

We’re always looking for opportunities to improve the delivery of relevant and interesting content on Digg. Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out changes to the design of the individual story pages. The new design will feature related stories based on keywords and a list of top stories with the same topic as the story you’re viewing. The goal is to make it even easier to discover great content on Digg.

These new features are in beta and we’ll be testing and making iterations to them over the coming weeks. Expect quirky results as we release this into the wild, but fear not, we are continuously improving the back-end logic. Look for improvements over the next several weeks and months.

In a previous post on the Technology blog, Joe Stump went into detail about the recent underlying changes to the Digg code infrastructure. We’re bringing the same principles of flexibility and modular composition to the design of Digg’s story pages.

The design changes we’ve made are driven by what we hear from you, the Digg community. When developing new features, and continuing our refinement of existing ones, we perform several rounds of user testing. That means sitting down with folks ranging from the most avid Digger to novice Internet users and watching how they interact with the site. You’ll see more changes in the months ahead, so as always, please let us know what you think!

Slainte,
Trammell