Why Digg Should Have a ‘Cached Version’ Button Next to All Front Page Stories

Are you sick of clicking from the Digg front page to an awesome-sounding story, only to find the site has been crashed due to the Digg effect? Digg is long overdue for an obvious upgrade that both site owners linked from Digg and Digg users will greatly benefit from.

What is this crazy idea, wacky plan, clever strategy you ask? It’s simple: an obvious button adjacent to a story link to a cached version of that story. Another alternative would be automatically link (on main pages only) to a cached version of all stories not on pre-approved lists of known top sites with good hosting.

This isn’t just about saving a website from crashing (this site, for example, is hosted on WordPress anyway!) - it is about getting Diggers easily to the stories they want to read. Win-win for everyone involved.