I liked the UI of digg a lot better, it was cleaner and had thumbnails. I mainly went to reddit for programming stuff back in the day. I think 2 codependent t

I liked the UI of digg a lot better, it was cleaner and had thumbnails. I mainly went to reddit for programming stuff back in the day. I think 2 codependent things ruined digg before the redesign though: (1) Users started to game the rankings so that the content was less diverse. (2) The admin's response to that gaming started to cripple the "newness" of posts such that the content on the front page was a lot older than on reddit. These two factors are starting to ruin reddit too, only now instead of MrBabyMan or whoever doing it for fun/money, it seems like it's actual foreign interference or something just as nefarious.