In a sign that the launch of the new version of Digg is imminent, the social media company has turned off new user registrations for Digg.com.
Visit Digg.com/register and you'll be greeted with a message stating that the new Digg is coming, and prompting would-be new users to sign up for e-mail notifications for the relaunch of the social news service. Digg is likely porting data over from the current version of Digg to the new one and doesn't want to leave out new users in the switch.
The new Digg was first revealed in March by former CEO Jay Adelson, who has since stepped down. Digg founder Kevin Rose took over as CEO as the company focuses on building a more Twitter-like experience to discovering content.
There is a lot of pressure on Rose and the Digg team to get this relaunch right: Digg has been steadily losing users for the last year.