The Digg javascript snippet was producing a bad URL for Digg submissions on my Wordpress blog. Found this plugin and it submits perfectly, plus gives you the Digg Count/Submit box. It needs to be tweaked to add Post title in the submission, but that's as simple as adding &t;=".$title." to the iframe urls.
This morning I noticed Digg looked pretty radically different, and not in a good way. Most importantly, the comments section was broken, not allowing me to digg comments up or down. Looks like AdBlock Plus may be the problem. As much as I hate to link to the usually moronic Yahoo! Answers, their proposed fix worked for me.
There are many reasons shared servers die when an enormous amount of traffic is received in a small period of time. In this article, I will explain this phenomenon. Even more exciting: we’ll teach you how to survive. Digg this story. Put it on the front page. If we survive, I’m right. If not, this leads to a broken link, and thats funny ironic
Surprisingly the most dugg comments on a very generic article about Steve Jobs leaving apple. Check out what the most dugg commments are saying. Is the tide turning against Apple now???? Is microsoft back in play in digg??
After making it to the front page of Slashdot (by surprise) and our WordPress site melting 2mins later with a server load of 41, we spent the next few hours bringing our WordPress site back up to functioning level... these are the tips we used to save it.