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I think the fact that the Reddit management got to witness the rapid death of Digg and rapid influx of users resulting from it let them learn a valuable lesson

by pnloyd 9y ago

I think the fact that the Reddit management got to witness the rapid death of Digg and rapid influx of users resulting from it let them learn a valuable lesson at Diggs expense (at just how fast your users can destory you if you piss them off). One thing I wonder though is where Reddit users would go in the event of such a collapse. I'm not aware of an established site in this format that's available like Reddit was available when the Digg collapse happened.

whywhywhywhy 9y ago
It's been a while now but wasn't Digg killed off by an overly flashy and slow JS heavy redesign. Maybe it's so long ago that few of the people in charge at Reddit even remember this is what made their site.
- pnloyd 9y ago
  I think that it was actually them manipulating the voting algorithms and it just happened to coincide with a site redesign.
  - nugi 9y ago
    Which reddit has been doing the last few years.