The new Digg
From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit: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.They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered")They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete 'type="text/javascript"' on script tags).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.They don't combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.They left debugging and TODO's statements in their javascript.  $(".story-image-marquee-standard").empty().html("");

tries to load content from a discontinued website.A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL's are also stored inside the page contents.URL's are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).Links to the same article are both with 'target="_blank"' and without.They don't use microformats or schema.org.