When our engineers were exploring Pligg 8.x, in one lazy afternoon, one of our graphics team showed a print screen of digg.com. He challenged other if we have capability to show off with a perfect Digg clone. His condition was we might not copy anything from digg but some few images(logo) and some common js frameworks. Name was another story - he changed the logo slightly. Added a line in "d", so that it became "cl".

Not that we were the first team to try to clone Digg, but has anyone really tried? We saw freaking templates far away from the standard. Pligg 9. In few days we found Pligg 9 in hand and decided to use that for a stunning social media software demo.

It took more than 3 months to get the clone ready. We tested one to one features, built news submission, filtering, commenting and pixel perfect pages. When released many people did not recognize that it was another site. Then it was shown to Eric and Ashdigg in their chat room - they even thought its digg! They were surprised and agreed that it was best example of pligg project. Although we gave credit to Pligg for backend but 40% of the code were rewritten.

We have gently denied all the offers to take over Cligg. It was intended to be a proof-of-concept and proof of passion and potentiality of Moornank team. We have reused Cligg's experience in many large scale projects .