>All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep, and they're toast I doubt it. Unlike Digg, Reddit ha

>All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep, and they're toast I doubt it. Unlike Digg, Reddit has community lock-in. If your content is generic memes and videos and general-interest news articles, then you can switch without caring too much if everybody else follows right away. But if you’re in a small city sub or the sub of some niche hobby or interest, then it matters a lot if everybody else agrees to move. You want to be where the other people are and it’s really hard to get an entire community to organize somewhere else. A site that can pull 20% of a small sub’s users isn’t 20% as good. It’s useless.