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I alway believed that reddit needs a redesign, but now that I'm thinking it, Digg had 4 redesigns and maybe that is a part for why it failed. People don't like

• smspence 15y ago
  It was arguably only the dreaded "version 4" redesign that caused the failure of Digg. And it wasn't necessarily the look that everyone hated, it was the fact that every single aspect of functionality was completely changed in a way that made it a different type of website. It took the voting-power out of the users' hands and gave it to the "publishers" of the content.
• untog 15y ago
  "redesign" isn't really an appropriate term for what Digg did- they changed a lot of core functionality at the same time as changing design. When when the dreaded "V4" came, it wasn't the design that was the problem, it was the change to prioritising major media companies. It would be possible for Reddit to change their design without changing functionality. But I suspect that no-one would be happy with the result.