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If you take investor money and start to fail, you aren't gonna die out naturally, you'll be killed and drained of blood, or die attempting a triple pirouette of
by taurath 7y ago
If you take investor money and start to fail, you aren't gonna die out naturally, you'll be killed and drained of blood, or die attempting a triple pirouette off a 200 meter high dive into a kiddy pool.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoThat doesn't seem to have happened here. Digg isn't popular, and I'd definitely stipulate that it's lower quality, but it still exists and functions as a general interest content aggregator thing.
- taurath 7y agoJust because a website is up doesn't mean its relevant
- marcinzm 7y agoAs I understand, Digg the original company was killed and drained of blood. The company that acquired the rights to digg.com as a result then re-launched it. The original Digg, the company, is long dead and buried.
- war1025 7y agoNew Digg is a resurrection of old Digg by a completely different company. [1] The Digg v4 thing was a very big deal back when it happened. In a matter of a month or two, Digg lost the majority of its traffic to Reddit. I personally remember switching pretty much overnight after v4 when beforehand I always thought Reddit was inferior to Digg. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Sale_and_relaunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Sale_and_relaunch Edit: Found an old graph of the traffic dropoff when v4 launched [2] [2] http://i.imgur.com/FuqV9.png http://i.imgur.com/FuqV9.png