Did the new Digg prompt you to jump ship?
The site wants you back. Digg has been sending e-mails to users who have not been as active lately asking that they come back and take the updated site for a spin.
"Come alive on Digg," the e-mail reads. "A lot has changed since you were last on Digg."
The message sits above a drawing of a cemetery and a pair of ghoulish hands reaching from a wooden coffin. A green button, which takes users to Digg's news page, urges the recipient to "Resurrect Yourself."
Digg introduced a revamped site in late August intended to curb the overwhelming authority of the dominant power users. However, it was immediately hit with bugs and delays, not to mention the displeasure from long-time users. A month later, stats showed a decline in Digg traffic by 26 percent in the U.S. and 34 percent in the U.K.
At last month's TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Digg founder Kevin Rose issued a mea culpa. "A mistake I made is that we had a passionate, dedicated community, and you can't just retire features, and say to them, this is your new news page," Rose said. "You can do that, and then you have front page stories and stories that say Digg sucks."
For more details, see PCMag's full review of the new Digg.