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The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. Also, Digg didn't have downvotes, which was a key innovation, because tech
by jedberg 4y ago
The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. Also, Digg didn't have downvotes, which was a key innovation, because technically delicious already had "upvotes" based on how many people bookmarked the same site.
And when we visited Digg later on, we (reddit) discovered that we had double their traffic.
Digg had better marketing but reddit was bigger for most of it's life.
- defrost 4y agoI suspect one factor in early reddit growth was early promotion on and rapid adoption by many of the (original) freenode IRC crowd (and extended spouses, famil, etc). I recall the days when it was a "proof of concept" single page lisp based site(?) that got taken on as the default place to post links for ranking and persistant comment (alongside other tool sites like pastebin for text content pastes etc.) The early theoretic comp sci posts died off and cats took over, followed by subredits etc .. and here we are :-)
- selcuka 4y agoSure. I did not imply reddit copied Digg. Just pointing out the fact that Digg was chronologically the first (or at least earlier than reddit). > The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. This is an interesting anecdote as Digg was already big by then (they actually released Digg 2.0 in July 2005, the same month reddit launched).