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The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

star my asshole. it was the skipper to reddits golden age. like barbies younger sister it was never as popular and a complete clone to grab the kids who rejected reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

reddit was just another pligg/elgg (open source link aggregator/social media cms at that time) clone trying to eat into the diggs market. and yes, reddit was open source too.

But unlike the fragmented open source alternatives, reddit had a marketing budget and lured in most of the users.

[–] wyrmroot 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s just factually untrue. It began as a much more popular site, but hemorrhaged users (who mainly went to Reddit) after an extremely unpopular site redesign.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Exactly. Reddit surge was because of the pre-death of Digg. Kinda what Reddit is experiencing itself now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Since I started on Digg years ago, I'm interested to see what the Digg Reboot will be.