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I am surprised no one mentioned Digg here. It was the original Reddit. Arguably its demise is attributed by inflow of VCs capital following by pivoting directio

• qrbLPHiKpiux 8y ago
  I liked digg. A lot. Then v2.0 came, and I left to Reddit. A few months ago, I had a script write over all my comments, and deleted the account. Reddit is the new digg v3.0.
  • rospaya 8y ago
    Ah, so you're one of the people that makes reading older threads on reddit a pain. Hope you know you directly made my internet experience worse.
    • keyme 8y ago
      Almost certainly these are still archived somewhere accessible, like wayback machine.
    • hombre_fatal 8y ago
      It's not their fault Reddit UI leaves [deleted] tombstones. Reddit even makes the WTF-level UX decision to show threads and threads and threads of [deleted] comments because a mod deleted top-level comments. I've used scripts like it a few times. What I thought was clever was that some of them edit the comment before deleting it. It's trivial to have a is_deleted=true flag, but far less likely to store comment revisions.
      • jstanley 8y ago
        If there's ever been a dispute about what a comment ever said prior to an edit, that anyone who worked at reddit cared about, there's a good chance they store all comment revisions even if they didn't at first. I would be very surprised if they do not store all comment revisions.
    • antiterra 8y ago
      This reads as passive-aggressive and incredibly self-centered. People don’t owe you their content, and it should be understandable that someone might want to remove their posts from a site that they no longer support. If it’s the rewritten text that bothers you, that’s just the unfortunate consequence of sites that scrape reddit live.
      • asdff 8y ago
        It is pretty annoying when you find that thread with the exact knowledge to solve that exact question you've been struggling with only to find that everything has been wiped from the record. It harkens back to "BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED" messages that crippled the usefulness of old forum threads. It doesn't even benefit whoever deleted the comment, it isn't all that difficult to find a cached version of the site with the comment. If we value internet discussion as something beyond just spouting into the void, and as something useful to other people, then we wouldn't be erasing public facing comments after the fact like an anti-intellectual despot.
      • rospaya 8y ago
        > This reads as passive-aggressive To be fair it is, it was written in the heat of the moment. > and incredibly self-centered I don't agree. The commenter or anyone else who participated in the comments isn't an island. Threads now have holes and they read like puzzles with every 10th piece thrown out because the user decided to be self-centered. You are completely correct, they don't owe me or reddit anything, but that doesn't mean that their act of disobedience, protest or grudge didn't leave collateral victims. Imagine people re-writing or deleting their comments or answers on Stack Exchange. Sure, we aren't owed anything but it hurts thousands of people who click on it, and the website owner very little.
    • stronglikedan 8y ago
      > so you're one of the people... I am too. I'm happy you're happy. You got exactly what I owed you.
      • asdff 8y ago
        What's the point? wayback machine exists...
        • stronglikedan 8y ago
          Exactly!
      • rospaya 8y ago
        You're happy with thousands of people wanting to find something, read it and then find gaps in it? You're not screwing Tencent and Conde Nast, you're screwing the average person who now has half a picture of what happened in the comment section.
        • stronglikedan 8y ago
          Yes, I'm happy when screwing.
  • maayank 8y ago
    What’s the current alternative?
    • Quequau 8y ago
      Not Voat.
    • abc-xyz 8y ago
      tildes.net
      • deleted 8y ago
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      • maayank 8y ago
        Got an invite?
        • abc-xyz 8y ago
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          • maayank 8y ago
            Thanks, already went through some interesting rabbit holes
• CydeWeys 8y ago
  I'm still amazed by how ill-conceived everything having to do with that redesign was, including the new design itself, the rollout plan, apparent lack of load testing, and no ability to roll back. Contrast with reddit's redesign, which was rolled out slowly and incrementally. More recently Snap had a redesign that was received almost as poorly, but at least they executed it competently.
  • RyanShook 8y ago
    I mostly attribute both of those bad moves to strong founders who were convinced they knew what people really wanted.
  • hi5eyes 8y ago
    >but at least they executed it competently. and gave all their users to IG
    • snarkyturtle 8y ago
      They're doing fine, their Daily Active Users is higher than Twitter even.
• asaph 8y ago
  > Digg ... was the original Reddit. And Slashdot was the original Digg.
  • gboudrias 8y ago
    So it goes.
  • nabla9 8y ago
    And the Usenet was the original Slashdot and the original social media. Oh, and moderators were pigs and fascists even in the Usenet that was not controlled by any greedy corporation. Any Meow War veterans here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow_Wars