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Seen a few comments focus on the "redesign" and comparisons to Digg, and wanted to add a few comments: 1. People may forget, but Reddit was a (the?) major winn
by wiremine 9y ago
Seen a few comments focus on the "redesign" and comparisons to Digg, and wanted to add a few comments:
1. People may forget, but Reddit was a (the?) major winner in the Digg exodus.
2. I don't think Digg every got the subreddit style discussion boards down. I think the reddit "homepage experience" vs. the typical subreddit experience to be very different. Should be interesting to see which way they slide for the redesign.
3. The influx of new capital and the focus on the redesign sort of telegraphs that they want to grow reddit, which is a very large but idiosyncratic community.
If they do it right, the change will be very transparent and very incremental, ala the ebay background color change [1].
Should be an interesting thing to watch!
[1] https://articles.uie.com/death_of_relaunch/ https://articles.uie.com/death_of_relaunch/
- root_axis 9y agoThere is a common misconception that Digg's failure was what pushed Reddit into the mainstream, but the truth is that Digg was on the decline and reddit on the rise long before the redesign. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-01%202011-06-30&q=digg,reddit https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-01%202...
- wiremine 9y agoTrue, but your data also supports the view that the redesign hastened Digg's death, and seems to correlate with increased growth at Reddit. I.e., Reddit was doing something right, and Digg was shrinking. The Digg redesign fiasco accelerated both trends.
- root_axis 9y agoI won't argue that, but I think the trend data makes a convincing case that Reddit's rise and Digg's demise were inevitable, regardless of Digg's redesign failure.
- wiremine 9y agoPerhaps. Had they handled the redesign correctly, things may have turned out differently. It was a perfect storm of design, technology and technology failure...