The new Digg
From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit:<p>All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.<p>They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.<p>They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered")<p>They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.<p>They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.<p>They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete 'type="text/javascript"' on script tags).<p>The layout breaks without javascript on, and the "upcoming stories" section doesn't get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site's functionality stops working.<p>They don't combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.<p>They left debugging and TODO's statements in their javascript.<p><pre><code>  $(".story-image-marquee-standard").empty().html("<img src='http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif' alt='' />");
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tries to load content from a discontinued website.<p>A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL's are also stored inside the page contents.<p>URL's are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).<p>Links to the same article are both with 'target="_blank"' and without.<p>They don't use microformats or schema.org.