Reddit before Reddit. Another community link aggregation site where users would “digg” (upvote) the most interesting stories across a variety of categories. After an unpopular site redesign and a poor algorithm that favored a handful of power users, the userbase left en masse to join the competing platform, Reddit.
In the wake of the entire userbase leaving, Digg turned into some kind of generic curated news site or something, nobody is really sure because nobody went there for like a solid 15 years. Just this month, original Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian purchased Digg back from whoever the hell owned Digg lately intending to once again compete as a Reddit alternative.
The short of it: It was a version of reddit before reddit. The owners restructured the site for Digg v4, and when they did, they broke it pretty bad. The users all left and went to reddit, myself included.
It looks like Digg is coming back with Kevin Rose in the driver’s seat again, but it might be focused on AI generated articles and whatnot. If that’s the case, I’m not interested.
The Reddit alternative from before Reddit was big. At one point they were comparable in size and had a friendly rivalry, I believe in the late 2000s. Digg is no better than Reddit, they have had numerous migrations to Reddit from admin issues, if I remember right.
What is Digg?
Reddit before Reddit. Another community link aggregation site where users would “digg” (upvote) the most interesting stories across a variety of categories. After an unpopular site redesign and a poor algorithm that favored a handful of power users, the userbase left en masse to join the competing platform, Reddit.
In the wake of the entire userbase leaving, Digg turned into some kind of generic curated news site or something, nobody is really sure because nobody went there for like a solid 15 years. Just this month, original Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian purchased Digg back from whoever the hell owned Digg lately intending to once again compete as a Reddit alternative.
The long of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
The short of it: It was a version of reddit before reddit. The owners restructured the site for Digg v4, and when they did, they broke it pretty bad. The users all left and went to reddit, myself included.
It looks like Digg is coming back with Kevin Rose in the driver’s seat again, but it might be focused on AI generated articles and whatnot. If that’s the case, I’m not interested.
don’t go anyway. they burnt us once. they’ll do it again
The Reddit alternative from before Reddit was big. At one point they were comparable in size and had a friendly rivalry, I believe in the late 2000s. Digg is no better than Reddit, they have had numerous migrations to Reddit from admin issues, if I remember right.