This is one of the more reasonable pieces I've read about this, something everyone monitoring the situation for whatever reason should be mindful of. It never

This is one of the more reasonable pieces I've read about this, something everyone monitoring the situation for whatever reason should be mindful of. It never occurred to me before reading this but I probably fall into the category of examples: I almost never visited Digg, maybe a couple of times, but did regularly visit Reddit later. The proportion of Reddit users who would even know about Digg is probably relatively small, and my sense over time is that it became increasingly part of the forgotten prehistory of Reddit for the typical user experience. This brings up another issue, which is user age. My guess is Reddit use, if it fades, will follow some pattern where resentful or unhappy users go build something else, and that something else increasingly becomes filled with people who were too young to be part of what caused its genesis in the first place.