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More like "they build you up, and you tear you down". The demise of Digg is entirely self-inflicted. My recollection is that amongst other things they: Had a
by Stormbringer 16y ago
More like "they build you up, and you tear you down".
The demise of Digg is entirely self-inflicted.
My recollection is that amongst other things they:
Had a big pointless UI change
Arbitrary changes to how something shows up on the front page
Polluted the frontpage with 'sponsored links' (read as: advertising)
Layered ads on their ads ("I heard you like ads...") with a side-helping of ads.
In order to increase click-through they were trying to make the ads look like normal links... this is scammy. Once you start lying to your users, why should they trust you? Once you lose their trust, how will you ever get it back?
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Now I'm not saying advertising is evil, and I'm not saying they shouldn't try to monetize. Gotta put food on the table somehow.
But honestly, I don't believe that they've dropped from 18 million to 12 million. 18 million to 1.8 million, that I'd believe. Digg is like a ghost-town now compared to what it used to be.
- timmaah 16y agoYou forgot the diggbar
- Stormbringer 16y agoWell, I had successfully forgotten the diggbar until you reminded me. :D To do: add "bleach for the brain" to shopping list. Honestly I never used it. Presumably there were those who loved it, those who hated it, and those who went 'meh'. I remember it generating a lot of controversy, I just don't remember what it was that it was supposed to do.
- nikcub 16y agodigg's own #dickbar worked out well for them
- CrazedGeek 16y agoThis wasn't good either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy#DMCA_notices_and_Digg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy...
- ojbyrne 16y agoActually, as I recall, that was pretty good for traffic.
- emehrkay 16y agoI was big into digg for a long time, then I discovered Reddit, which happens to be the exact opposite of every point that you made. Digg had some cool UI elements and a cool labs subdomain, and as a web dev, that kept me interested. The content and the system as a whole made me move away from it.