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Apart from the two biggest I can think of, MySpace -> Facebook and Digg -> Reddit, when else has this happened? I can think of many more examples where the hege
by honkdaddy 4y ago
Apart from the two biggest I can think of, MySpace -> Facebook and Digg -> Reddit, when else has this happened? I can think of many more examples where the hegemon imploded and its market was eaten up by a bunch of different competitors, I don't know if there's normally a clear winner which serves the same market as the original.
- ProfessorLayton 4y agoVine > Tiktok Vine was shut down by twitter.
- honkdaddy 4y agoOh that's a great example, actually.
- jedberg 4y ago> Digg -> Reddit For the record, Reddit had more traffic than Digg for many years before V4, it's just that Digg had more Windows users running the Alexa toolbar, so it was ranked higher. We (reddit) visited Digg a little while before their V4 disaster and discovered (to the surprise of both teams) that our traffic was double theirs. Turned out most Digg users were also reddit users, but not the other way around.
- earthscienceman 4y agoWhat? This is revisionist as all get out, and it's not like a founder of reddit should be anecdotally referenced as a source for "reddit was always more popular than digg. they just had toolbar spyware" This comment is laughably ego driven. The "v4 disaster" was the nail in the coffin where everyone left digg for good. Leaving digg for reddit became a meme in late 2008. It's no shock at all that by the v4 exodus in 2010 reddit was more popular. However 2007-2008 there were questions about which was a more compelling platform/format and which would foster a real community. By 2010 that question was answered, for sure, but "reddit always had more traffic but digg ranked higher cause toolbars" is borderline absurd.
- jedberg 4y agoOk you're right I was using "always" loosely to mean "for years before V4". I fixed my comment.