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"Competitor Reddit.com started much later than Digg, and never really had a chance to catch up — until now" That's not really true. Reddit started less than si

• masklinn 16y ago
  And has more traffic than Digg already...
  • vierja 16y ago
    It is actually 40% bigger than Reddit. http://i.imgur.com/jiHka.png http://i.imgur.com/jiHka.png This was posted yesterday by KeyserSosa ( http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_mainstream_media_please_stop/ http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_main... )
    • xsmasher 16y ago
      Reddit has 40% more traffic than Digg, you mean.
      • vierja 16y ago
        Yes, sorry. I wasn't thinking clear this morning.
  • ojbyrne 16y ago
    So first of all, I see alexa as pretty suspect. I have some doubts about this overall, although I would not be surprised if digg traffic had steadily declined over the last 3 years (testament to the not-so-amazing bizdev team there). But mostly I'd guess Kevin misspoke.
  • markmywords 16y ago
    And it is noticeable in the constant decrease in quality of both submissions and comments. Just compare the scribb.ly discussion here to the one on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d8ph4/building_a_scrabble_mmo_in_48_hours/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d8ph4/building_... Granted, one can circumvent a lot of nonsense on reddit by carefully selecting and managing subreddit subscriptions but in the end I find myself unsubscribing from more and more reddits over time.