Version four of Digg was supposed to launch in 2009. Rose and the Digg Board of Directors grew frustrated at the lack of direction. It was April fourth when Adelson announced he was stepping down. Rose, who had scarce been seen around Digg for several months, was again taking on a full-time role. He graciously thanked Adelson and went on to announce, “I am excited to be taking on the role of Chairman and acting CEO, driving Digg forward on our promise to enable social cu-ration of the world’s content and the conversation around it.”

It was reported that Rose was not satisfied with Digg V4, and planned to make more changes. A Tech Crunch interview from 2009 has Rose speaking of overhauling Digg and making it work in “real time.” Rose had visions of sending Digg in a “completely new direction.”

At the end of August 2010 Digg hired Matt Williams, a former Amazon exec, to fill Adelson’s shoes. Rose holds the position of chief architect.

Version four of Digg launched last week. Digg introduced the ability to follow friends, faster architecture, and personalized news. Features not available were the ability to bury stories and check upcoming stories (the latter is slated to be restored).

There were several issues as the new Digg stumbled off the starting blocks. One of the issues was the quantity of traffic. Digg redirected to a system that was built from the ground up and beta tested for two months, but it couldn’t handle the traffic surge stemming from Digg’s relaunch last Wednesday. Digg’s VP of Product Keval Desai told Read Write Web, “”Hindsight is 20/20. We made a calculated decision to test the site in beta and then launch. We had a game plan and clearly it did not go smoothly. In hindsight, there are several things that could have been done better.”

Desai spoke of Digg’s “broader mission,” including becoming more accessible to smaller publishers, as well as its users. Although Digg traffic is equal or higher, Desai stated, “it is still early going.” If Digg wants to leverage its recent growth, it will need to more carefully iterate its product in the future.

An update from Rose on August 31st listed changes to be forthcoming. These included changes to algorithms, time stamps, site stability, and more.

What are people saying now? Public opinion, as calculated by Mashable, is very one sided. Users are upset about the stories reaching the front page, and the expanded audience Digg is trying to appeal to. According to a Mashable poll, over 78% (of over 6,000 responses) prefer the old Digg to the new version.

How about you? Do you prefer the new Digg?

Are you missing old digg?

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1. Digg Bar

Digg announced this Digg bar feature on April 3^rd 2009.

Why Digg Bar?

Digg directly destination site: No more mediators between the dig story page and Digg.

No Of Dugg: We can see the no of duggs from the dig bar.

Easily share stories: Create own shortened Digg URL & share it on Twitter, Facebook or via email. You just need to type digg.com/ before the URL of any page to create a short URL.

Views: We can see how many times our story has been viewed.

Check Comments: click ‘Comments’ button to expand the DiggBar to show the top comment, latest comment.

Related Stories: Clicking the ‘Related’ button expands the DiggBar to highlight similar stories.

See more stories from the same source: Clicking the ‘Source’ button to expands the DiggBar to show you more Digg stories from that same source site.

Discover random stories: Click the ‘Random’ button and you’ll be brought to an entirely new, unexpected story.

2. Digg Ads

Digg announced new Digg advertising feature on June 4^th 2009. In this dig has given us control to which advertisement should display on digg. As many as the ads duggs, advertiser will have to pay less and the more ads gone buried advertiser have to pay more.

3.  Digg Trends

Yesterday Digg announce new digg trends feature November 4^th 2009. Digg wants to show most interesting stories to front page so they have started this as a new experiment.

How it works?

Trending stories will be identified by the high no of digs, comments, favorites & shares. Users can dig or bury the story according to popularity. If the story get enough diggs in 10 minutes time then it will stay on homepage, if not then users can’t see it on home page.

According to digg blog post the motive behind this is digg wants highly interesting stories to digg home page. It’s depend on people do they want story to home page or not.