Digg adds new changes to its social news toolbar

Digg has announced that it will change the way the DiggBar works, which should pacify a lot of Digg's critics.

Digg said in a company blog post that the DiggBar will now only appear when users are logged in to Digg, so that content providers will continue to receive full credit from search engines, without Digg's iframe getting in the way.

The site plans to launch these changes over the coming week.

Despite the backlash the company has been receiving, Digg's vice president of engineering continues to push that the DiggBar's done good things for both Digg and the sites it's linking to.

In a company blog post on the upcoming changes, he said that "oughly 45% of all Digging activity is now happening on the Diggbar and over 25% of all DiggBar users are discovering new content they otherwise wouldn’t have by viewing related stories and content from the same source."