Although I am a pretty active digg user it was a surprise for me. I have been seeing stories on upcoming for more than 24 hours and as usual my first guess was that it might be a bug on digg’s algorithm, but I guess that’s not true. After talking to couple friends on IM, I think it is pretty much confirmed that Digg has changed it’s algorthm to let submissions stay for 48 hours before it is kicked out of the upcoming section. Although nothing is official since Digg can’t disclose any changes regarding changes in algorithm, it seems like the change has been made. Here are a few images from the most diggs upcoming pages which clearly show that stories will stay for more than 24 hours in the upcoming section. Read the rest of this entry