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The Digg Layout
If you want to go beyond reading the homepage stories, here's a breakdown of the primary actions you'll take at Digg.com:
Register
It takes about five seconds to create an account with Digg. Once you
have an account, you can access all of the Web site's features and take
an active role in submitting and Digging stories.
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Browse and Digg
Browse for stories within the Digg "Upcoming
Stories" queue, and let Digg know which stories you like by clicking
the "Digg" button to the left of each story title. (Every story you
Digg gets saved to your account for later viewing, so you end up with a
running list of everything you've ever Dugg.) The more Diggs a story
gets, the better its chances of making it to the homepage. You can also
browse the queue by category, and you can switch back and forth between
"Story View" and "Cloud View."
 In "Story View," the queue is arranged in a simple vertical display of stories. You can sort the results by date, number of Diggs or number of comments. In this view, we're browsing in the "All" category. |
 In "Cloud View," the queue is arranged in a running list of stories that lets you see a lot more titles at once. The more Diggs a story has, the bigger and bluer it is. |
Comment
If you find a story you find particularly interesting and have
something to add or would like to discuss it with other Digg users,
just click the "comments" link beneath the story description. You can
add your own comment at the bottom of the comments page.
Bury
As a Digg user, your help is appreciated in reporting duplicate stories
(not allowed), dead links, incorrect stories, oldness, lameness, and spam
by clicking the corresponding link in the "problem" drop-down list
below each story description. When a story gets enough reports, or
"buries," it disappears from the Digg queue and only appears in search
results and user profiles.
Submit
Finally, you can post a story to the Digg queue
yourself and hope other users find it interesting enough to Digg it
straight to the front page. It's actually a lot of fun to see if your
story makes it. All you need to do is click "Submit a Story" on the
upper left-hand side of the homepage, do a keyword or URL search and,
if it appears your story hasn't been submitted yet, provide a title, a
link and a short description of the story you're posting.
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The submission immediately appears in the Upcoming Stories queue where anybody can see it.
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It'll either get enough Diggs to move to the homepage or eventually
disappear if it doesn't get enough Diggs or it gets reported by
multiple users. In the next section, we'll look at special Digg features
