Website like Digg.com become news when they are up, they become news story when they are down too. I just wanted to add some post to my digg’s favorite list in the evening but instead i saw the following message:

We’ll be back shortly.
Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.

[Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 01:06:19 (a.m.) GMT]

Everyone is waiting to hear from Digg now for this downtime. I will update this post when Digg announce their reason/s for this out of service. I hope this is not a hacker attract or Digg is trying to add a new plug-in like John Chow.

Update: The server is up again. This is the update news from the founder of Digg.com Kevin Rose:

Hey everyone - quick post to let you know that in the midst of going live with some back-end upgrades as well as our new comments system, the site has had a longer than expected outage tonight. We’re deep into the fixes and should have them done soon. In the meantime, we don’t want to interrupt your Digging any longer so we’re reverting to the current version of the site until we get the kinks worked out.

On a related note, we’ve been working for several months on a full Disaster Recover site for Digg. Once operational, our DR site will let us make site updates without interruptions - and in tonight’s case where things went haywire, you’d never know we were making updates at all.

Apologies for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused any of you - we should have the new features up soon.