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Yesterday, thanks to Twitter’s ability to break news, I heard about the new Digg comment system from Digg founder Kevin Rose, when he posted (accidentally?) a video link to Twitter, but then quickly took it down. Perhaps a ploy, but it worked. The news hit the Digg front page fast.

So what’s new with the comments system?

A quick overview of the changes:

1. Speed: Comments load faster. The comments load as the page is displayed - no more AJAX loading.
2. Lightweight UI: No boxes around nested comments and user profiles with permalinks to the comment are listed to the left.
3. New Filters: At the top of the comments, there are two new filters: "only mine" and "only friends" which filters the comments and replies section to display only yours or your friends’, respectively.
4. New "Controversial" Sort: In the sort drop-down box, there is a new sort called "Controversial," which will show the comments that have the most diggs and buries.
5. See Buries: You can click on the Digg count on each comment to see how many Diggs and Buries there are.
6. Change Your Vote on Comments: You can now click on the opposite thumb and recast your vote on a comment.
7. Easier to Reply and Manage Comments: There’s a bigger submit box, longer edit times, and a delete button to remove the comment.

Unfortunately, the update is still "coming very soon," so it hasn’t launched yet.

You can watch the video about the new comments system here:

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  December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jigar Mehta
  I agree!! I wish Blogs also gets similar comment system! Though Intense Debate and Disqus does that today..

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