1:30, Diggs started to take longer to register . The digg box on one post started showing 11 diggs, when the post really had 56.
1:40 Our post is the top blog post when searching for digg in technorati tags, resulting in our first noticeable traffic ever from technorati. good thing we got reinstated in the directory for the 3rd time or so recently.
1:43 Serious slowdown after digging posts…more than 30 seconds.
1:44 Digg pwns sel: “Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.”
1:45 Listening to the “Oh Nine, Eff Nine” song.
1:47 Digg still down.
1:48 It is going to take them a really long time to remove all the stories with the code in it. And then there’s all those pesky users to ban.
1:49 Still down.
1:51 They are never going to keep that number out. People will add it as comments just for no reason. Congrats, MPAA, you’ve created a powerful new meme!
1:52 Just noticed that Kevin Rose, Digg founder, posted something two hours ago about how they’re effectively going to tell the MPAA to shove the C&D. It uses the AACS code as a headline so you know he is for reals, or maybe it’s just Digg-bait to increase his AdSense revenue.
1:59 People say it’s up. But they also say it’s timing out and hanging. Still down for us.
2:03 Now everyone sees “We’ll be back shortly.”
2:05 We remember enjoying the headline that said, “BREAKING: DELL DUDE LANDS ON MOOn!” With the subheading “also 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.jpg.” Think it linked to a picture of Kevin Rose, a shovel, one of those terrorist creatures from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and a graphical representation of the deadly number. Not quite the perfect Venn diagram of Digg user interests, but cut ’em some slack, they’re working on the fly.
2:08 This is a phat rap about the number.
2:09 Fatigue, thoughts of this post’s pointlessness, begin to settle in.
2:12 Posting more screencaps taken shortly before the crash, inside.
2:16 People say it’s up!
2:17 Hasn’t propogated to us yet. Apparently the top story is Rose’s, “I will never take this down.”
2:19 It’s back for us. Looks like the same crazy pile of hex stories. It’s well past the tipping point of where people are just clicking on, and submitting all, the hex code stories they can.
2:20 Wonder if Digg will credit their advertisers for all the page refreshes.
2:21 Again, Rose: “”But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you ‘ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.”” Let’s see what kills Digg first, fighting the MPAA suit or no one wanting to read a site full of hex spam.
2:28 Submitted this post to Digg.

— BEN POPKEN

RELATED: A good explanation of what this is all about, over at BoingBoing.
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