You know what's sad about this? My bet is that there's nobody left who cares anymore.
Back in the day Digg was a Slashdot killer and I loved that site more than anything else. Then over time they seemed to forget that it was their community that was the "social" in social news.
Then slowly fame ruined the Digg management team, that or they just were uninterested. The first blow was that they removed shouts -- but the users hung in there. And then slowly web 2.0 came into bloom and some of the stars of the system migrated first to Twitter and later to places like Reddit.
I still love that site with all my heart, and keep rooting for them like the last loyal fan of a baseball team that has no hope of getting to the playoffs this season -- or ever. Digg at this point reminds me of the Amiga in the 90s: The fans loved the platform but what they loved was what was in the past.
It's been mentioned on reddit before but it's come full circle. Compare the frontpages of reddit and digg. Granted, digg get their content from publishers mostly.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadBack in the day Digg was a Slashdot killer and I loved that site more than anything else. Then over time they seemed to forget that it was their community that was the "social" in social news.
Then slowly fame ruined the Digg management team, that or they just were uninterested. The first blow was that they removed shouts -- but the users hung in there. And then slowly web 2.0 came into bloom and some of the stars of the system migrated first to Twitter and later to places like Reddit.
I still love that site with all my heart, and keep rooting for them like the last loyal fan of a baseball team that has no hope of getting to the playoffs this season -- or ever. Digg at this point reminds me of the Amiga in the 90s: The fans loved the platform but what they loved was what was in the past.