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Hellsadvocate  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kevin Rose on why Digg Failed
I'm surprised that Reddit isn't mentioned by Kevin Rose. Facebook and Twitter? I've never seen them as a news source of any kind.




ruhsler  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You can subscribe to news sources on facebook but its not the same as reddit is submitted by users and moderated etc twitter is kind of where everything gets sent eventually. Digg for the most part shot itself in the foot by not managing itself properly and banning trouble makers who were deliberately going on and being asholes to make the site look bad ie redditors.

I know that some redditors were active on digg in trying to bring it down i dont see why they would other that they were the main competition to reddit. All that did was move people from digg to reddit so you now have the digg crowd that reddit hated so much on reddit. kind of counter productive if you ask me but reddit is a comical venture i think redditors forget this and still regard reddit as the underdog.

thenewgreen  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I was too. But then, even the founders of reddit insist that the "Digg migration" wasn't as pronounced as people seem to think. Reddits growth was steady. I agree with you though, ...twitter and fb? Rose would know though, it was his community. I trust his account as accurate.
JakobVirgil  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I think the truth hurts too bad to say it.
mk  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes, I don't buy that Facebook and Twitter caused the decline. I've met plenty of people on Reddit and in TRW that moved from Digg to Reddit. I've never heard anyone suggest that FB or Twitter was why they left Digg. You can't have in depth conversations on those services.

Maybe he'd just rather not speak the name of the service that replaced them?

Hellsadvocate  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
There's an IAMA from an Ex Digg employee and from what I've read of his opinions on Reddit during their V4 deployment and all, is that they barely thought or even glanced at Reddit. They considered it a very badly designed website that couldn't compete. Their mistake was not looking at Reddit and realizing why it was growing in the first place.

While the community at Reddit has basically reached that apex where the average IQ starts to drop, the design of the website is very simple and easy to get used to. I'm very glad that hubski is just as simple and sleek. Also Hi Mk :)

mk  ·  4499 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I suppose that is believable. When you have the money and the traffic, there probably isn't much motivation to examine your smaller competitor. Perhaps they were always looking up towards larger services. Obviously, that was a mistake. Digg served a purpose, the closest service that served a similar purpose would have been Reddit. Not Facebook or Twitter.

Personally, I always favored the Reddit aesthetic to Digg. It might not be pretty, but it puts the content front and center. And that's why people are there.

Also, hi Hellsadvocate!