What exactly is 'Digg' and what happened to it? : r/OutOfTheLoop
Digg was the old Reddit before Reddit was Reddit. Reddit still existed, but Digg was bigger and more popular. It operated in a similar fashion with upvotes/downvotes on submissions and comments but didn't have user-created categories like subreddits, only pre-defined one
WELCOME TO THE SUBREDDIT PROTECTORATE OF /R/DIGG
Digg v4 launched on 25th August 2010 and today is ten years since Quit Digg Day. Please find some time today to pour one out for old Digg, and commemorate all that was lost with the v4 release.
What the hell has happened to Digg? : r/digg - Reddit
But the video focused more on the historic digg. But when I did my investigation into modern digg as a reddit alternative I discovered no one could post article or links. It looked to me it was simple an SEO website at this point, and that was last year. The current design was a real last attempt to keep digg alive, but it appears that was gutted.
ELI5 "The Great Digg Migration". : r/explainlikeimfive - Reddit
Digg was primarily about discovering and sharing content. Reddit has a different culture. It is all about the comments and the community, links are often just a pretext for a discussion. On Digg you never saw people engage in smart, involved debates, take time to write entire essays, share life stories, ask for advice, or buy each other pizza.
What is Digg like now? Did they fix the things that sent users
The old Digg was akin to Reddit - user submitted content that made it to the front page through up and down votes. Lots of comments New Digg is a site where stories are curated by the team who also select the pix and write the headlines, intro and tag line. So they didn't fix the old things, they just built a new site atop the old domain name.
What exactly happened to Digg and caused mass exodus to Reddit?
2015年6月14日 · Digg fucked up in big ways, from making huge irreversible changes to the UI, to changing the nature of front page content overnight (less stuff people liked, more spam). People didn't leave digg because of principles, they weren't taking a stand against corruption.
I was Digg Power user. It's clear to me that even Digg ... - Reddit
2012年7月14日 · Digg employees knew about most of the plugins, but there were a few that they were not aware of. Many power users did it for money, many did it for traffic to their own site - but it was a symbiotic relationship - they got a LOT of great content, just because it was so competitive, so it really added to the community, even if 1 in 10 of their ...
What exactly led to the downfall of Digg? : r/AskReddit
The Digg down button and the "upcoming stories" tab were gone... and the site ran on some mysterious algorithm that seemed to be more about benefiting sponsors than actually letting the community pick front page stories, which all the actual users seemed to feel was the fundamental premise of Digg.
10 years ago today, Digg v4 launched - it was unstable for ... - Reddit
2020年8月25日 · 10 years ago today, Digg v4 launched - it was unstable for weeks, features were removed, and only “power users” could get their content on the front page. It led to an “Exodus” of Digg users to Reddit, and wiped hundreds of millions of dollars off the company’s value.
What is the Digg Exodus and how was the Community Manager
Digg 4.0 changed from a user based submit system where 'Powerusers' controlled content, to where companies auto submitted blog spam and reached the front page. It wouldn't have been so egregious except Digg 4.0 gave auto submitted blog spam a huge advantage over the average, or even power user.