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Suprnova.org, a legendary BitTorrent website, which has been previously closed because of heavy pressure from the copyright lobby, now returns with a new message: “You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future”.

At the moment, Suprnova is in the public beta stage, which means that some minor problems or bugs may be discovered. The site seems to be working fine though, and has a nice new design inspired by the good old Suprnova.

Not surprisingly, the community is very excited about Supernova’s relaunch: the story on Digg has been dugg by almost 5,000 people, with several other related stories making the homepage. Interesting thing is that Kevin Rose is the one who submitted the original story, which officially makes him a pirate ;)

Daniel Burka announced on Digg’s official Blog they released Digg Widgets built off of their API.

The widget lets you display latest Digg stories on your website. All you have to do is to pick a preffered theme, customize the widget, set the display options and finally paste the generated script code into your site’s HTML code.

There’s a plenty of configuration options. You can set the widget to display all popular stories, a top 10 list, stories dugg by a specified user, popular stories from your favorite site, stories dugg by your friends etc. You can also easily customize the widget’s appearance.

Basically this is a very easy way to make use of the Digg’s API. Without writing a single line of code you can show Digg’s content on your website in a way you need.

This is an interesting thing for all Digg fans: Kevin Rose and his buddy Alex Albrecht were interviewed by CNBC while waiting in a line outside a store in San Francisco to get an iPhone (or two).

It’s pretty funny to see them as regular people waiting in a line and being interviewed by a person who probably doesn’t have a clue who they are, and how important they are on the Web :)

Digg’s Kevin Rose announced on Digg the Blog yesterday that they finally managed to launch the long-expected new comment system on Digg.

Digg users have complained about the poor comment system for a really long time now. As a regular Digger, I must say that I’ve also never been a fan of the system - good looking, but definitely lacking some features (where threading seemed to be the most important). The new system brings some new features, but - unfortunately - the overall impression is even worse than it was before. As the whole community agreed: it sucks.

Why it sucks?

Though it does support multiple level comments now, it’s - in my opinion - poorly designed, the comments just don’t look as neat as they did before. The second thing I don’t like about it is the fact that, after opening a story, only the “first” comments are visible. To view any replies, you have to open the Comment Display Options (one click), then choose the Expand Full Tree option (second click…), or just click a link to open the replies to the comment which interests you (lots of clicks). I understand that the idea behind it was to make the pages load faster, and for those of you who don’t really care about comments, it’s not a big deal. But I usually like to at least skim through ALL comments under stories that interest me and having to make at least two additional clicks to do so is, for me, a huge step backwards in usability.

The one thing I like about the new system is replying in context; it means that when you reply to a comment, the text area appears right below it - you are not thrown to bottom anymore, so you can read the comment you are replying to while typing your own.

Well, hopefully I’ll get used to it :)

For more information and opinions, check out the David Burka’s (Digg’s creative director) blog.

Tags: digg