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They all copied slashdot and the idea of a purely voting/community driven site was discussed frequently on slashdot for years before digg or reddit. So there :

They all copied slashdot and the idea of a purely voting/community driven site was discussed frequently on slashdot for years before digg or reddit. So there :)

kn0thing 16y ago
One day I want Sir Tim Berners-Lee to hop into one of those threads and tell everyone to GTFO. But really, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. It's cliche for a good reason (though the English teacher in my brain is yelling at me for using one).
jimboyoungblood 16y ago
I think of del.icio.us as the direct ancestor. Digg came out when joshu's baby was the new hotness and everybody and their dog were trying to clone it.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  That reminds me, on Demo Day (Aug '05) del.icio.us was the site we kept hearing over and over. Explaining how we were different from them was pretty straightforward [Del.icio.us is king of social bookmarking, a way to keep make your bookmarks always accessible, the by-product is you can see what people are saving for later. Ppl use reddit to find & share new & interesting links about anything popular at the moment, not reference material to save for later.]. But our spartan designs did look similar, which I suspect is what made the connection.
jsz0 16y ago
Does anyone else remember kuro5hin? If my memory is correct it pre-dated Digg by several years but of course didn't have the same level of success. Digg deserves a lot of credit for making the idea work on a big scale.
- lftl 16y ago
  kuro5hin definitely shared the voting element, but other than that it was pretty different than the reddit or digg. It was more like a social blog, you didn't post links, you actually posted full essays and people voted and commented on them.
  - jrockway 16y ago
    If by essays you mean right-wing conspiracy theories, then yes, that's what Kuro5hin was.
    - lftl 16y ago
      I really didn't pay a ton of attention to kuro5hin... but what I did read there wasn't what I would call right-wing. Essays like one that was abused to create the recent Wikipedia pedophile scandal were much closer to what I remember.
      - jrockway 16y ago
        Yeah, OK, that sounds about right.
_delirium 16y ago
The idea of a purely voting/community driven site as a Slashdot spinoff was also implemented, at Kuro5hin. It turned out a bit differently, though, as it mostly ended up becoming something of a site for freelance tech writers to publish long-form pieces in the era before everyone had blogs they could do it on. So, ended up diverging from the blurbs that Slashdot does, or the pure links that digg/reddit type sites do. They did keep a section for just a link and a blurb, but it was pejoratively entitled "mindless link propagation" (MLP) and not really a main focus of the site. (These days it's something of a dive bar, with only old regulars left and a lot of miscellaneous discussion.)

They all copied slashdot and the idea of a purely voting/community driven site was discussed frequently on slashdot for years before digg or reddit. So there :)

kn0thing 16y ago

One day I want Sir Tim Berners-Lee to hop into one of those threads and tell everyone to GTFO. But really, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. It's cliche for a good reason (though the English teacher in my brain is yelling at me for using one).

jimboyoungblood 16y ago

I think of del.icio.us as the direct ancestor. Digg came out when joshu's baby was the new hotness and everybody and their dog were trying to clone it.

kn0thing 16y ago
That reminds me, on Demo Day (Aug '05) del.icio.us was the site we kept hearing over and over. Explaining how we were different from them was pretty straightforward [Del.icio.us is king of social bookmarking, a way to keep make your bookmarks always accessible, the by-product is you can see what people are saving for later. Ppl use reddit to find & share new & interesting links about anything popular at the moment, not reference material to save for later.]. But our spartan designs did look similar, which I suspect is what made the connection.

jsz0 16y ago

Does anyone else remember kuro5hin? If my memory is correct it pre-dated Digg by several years but of course didn't have the same level of success. Digg deserves a lot of credit for making the idea work on a big scale.

lftl 16y ago
kuro5hin definitely shared the voting element, but other than that it was pretty different than the reddit or digg. It was more like a social blog, you didn't post links, you actually posted full essays and people voted and commented on them.
- jrockway 16y ago
  If by essays you mean right-wing conspiracy theories, then yes, that's what Kuro5hin was.
  - lftl 16y ago
    I really didn't pay a ton of attention to kuro5hin... but what I did read there wasn't what I would call right-wing. Essays like one that was abused to create the recent Wikipedia pedophile scandal were much closer to what I remember.
    - jrockway 16y ago
      Yeah, OK, that sounds about right.

_delirium 16y ago

The idea of a purely voting/community driven site as a Slashdot spinoff was also implemented, at Kuro5hin. It turned out a bit differently, though, as it mostly ended up becoming something of a site for freelance tech writers to publish long-form pieces in the era before everyone had blogs they could do it on. So, ended up diverging from the blurbs that Slashdot does, or the pure links that digg/reddit type sites do. They did keep a section for just a link and a blurb, but it was pejoratively entitled "mindless link propagation" (MLP) and not really a main focus of the site. (These days it's something of a dive bar, with only old regulars left and a lot of miscellaneous discussion.)