Angry Digg users link to Reddit after redesign

Apparently dissatisfied with a redesign that buries much of their influence, hard-core users of social-news site Digg have been gaming its "Top News" page so that it's dominated by links to rival site Reddit. The "Digg Version 4" relaunch, following an alpha test, was rolled out to the general public last week. In order to maintain relevance in a world where users' individual "social graphs" on Twitter and Facebook bear a significant weight on news consumption, the new Digg promises a custom experience for individual users rather than the "old" Digg and its domination by a powerful clique of avid users. While this model had created a staunchly loyal army of Diggers, it was preventing the site from gaining the mainstream appeal that it needed to fuel growth.

For more on this story, read Angry Digg users flood home page with Reddit linkson CNET News.