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> The News.me team will take Digg back to its essence: the best place to find, read and share the stories the internet is talking about. Right now. With my cyn

by jgroome 14y ago

> The News.me team will take Digg back to its essence: the best place to find, read and share the stories the internet is talking about. Right now. With my cynicism hat on nice and tight, it seems a bit late for that. Digg WAS, in its heyday, the best place to find and share online content. But as the management undertook on iffy decision after another, and as imitators sprung up left right and centre, it lost its place in the online world. Sad. We have plenty of content aggregators now. The kind of people Digg 5.0 (?!) will target are probably more than happy finding their entertainment through Twitter, Facebook, and dare I say it, Reddit. Having said that, I for one wish the new team all the luck in the world in trying to get the site back to its former glory, and I look forward to trying it out.

sharkweek 14y ago
I've got my reddit page nice and customized so I see exactly what I'm interested in appear on the front page every morning through specific subreddits I come to HN for a bit more focused conversation on industry related stuff I don't think Digg really has a place anywhere between those two
citricsquid 14y ago
There is always room for a better content aggregator, reddit etc. all have their own set of flaws and problems. If the Betaworks team have the ideas to make a great content aggregator then purchasing the Digg brand is absolutely brilliant. The hard part of launching a new site is traction, if they can launch with "the new Digg" (and the site is impressive) that $500k will be the best $500k they could possibly spend on marketing. Techcrunch, Mashable, Reddit... it would be the front page of everywhere, "Digg crashed and burned and after being bought for $500k it's back and it's amazing!", hell maybe even CNN and the BBC would cover it. Not only that they have the entire userbase of Digg to market their new site to. A social news site biggest problem is getting users; this solves that problem (and them some) If we assume that instead of the thought process being "We can have Digg for $500k... should we do it?" the thought process was actually: "We have this brilliant idea for content aggregation, how can we most effectively implement and market this?" then it sounds like a much safer and sensible thing to do.
hello_asdf 14y ago
I liked Reddit back when it was less well known. Now, it just appears that the content appeals to the lowest common denominator. Some of the content is still great (i.e. r/dwarffortress), but a lot of the site has degraded into junk. If anyone has some good subreddits that are still decent, I'd love to know what they are.
- adpirz 14y ago
  foodforthought truereddit, economics and if you unsubscribe from pics, funny, adviceanimals, aww, and atheism (regardless of whether you are or not, it's just not high quality content), you'll find that things suddenly get a whoooole lot better
- topbanana 14y ago
  http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pv4lu/ http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pv4lu/
  - RegEx 14y ago
    This might be the first permissible use of quickmeme on HN ;)
- zem 14y ago
  there are a lot of excellent small subreddit, but their appeal will obviously depend on whether you share that subinterest. some good larger ones are /r/askscience, /r/printsf and /r/coding.
  - RegEx 14y ago
    /r/learnprogramming is a great place to learn and contribute
- shortlived 14y ago
  It's all about the subreddits http://subreddits.org/ http://subreddits.org/
- mkr-hn 14y ago
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nikcub 14y ago
the cost of switching with content aggregators is so low, and there is a network effect in the switch, so I would never write digg off. just thinking about it, I would probably give whatever they build next a chance
yuhong 14y ago
Yea, this reminds me of the MS/IBM DOS 4.0 fiasco, though in this case it is much worse.

by jgroome 14y ago

sharkweek 14y ago

I've got my reddit page nice and customized so I see exactly what I'm interested in appear on the front page every morning through specific subreddits I come to HN for a bit more focused conversation on industry related stuff I don't think Digg really has a place anywhere between those two

citricsquid 14y ago

There is always room for a better content aggregator, reddit etc. all have their own set of flaws and problems. If the Betaworks team have the ideas to make a great content aggregator then purchasing the Digg brand is absolutely brilliant. The hard part of launching a new site is traction, if they can launch with "the new Digg" (and the site is impressive) that $500k will be the best $500k they could possibly spend on marketing. Techcrunch, Mashable, Reddit... it would be the front page of everywhere, "Digg crashed and burned and after being bought for $500k it's back and it's amazing!", hell maybe even CNN and the BBC would cover it. Not only that they have the entire userbase of Digg to market their new site to. A social news site biggest problem is getting users; this solves that problem (and them some) If we assume that instead of the thought process being "We can have Digg for $500k... should we do it?" the thought process was actually: "We have this brilliant idea for content aggregation, how can we most effectively implement and market this?" then it sounds like a much safer and sensible thing to do.

hello_asdf 14y ago

I liked Reddit back when it was less well known. Now, it just appears that the content appeals to the lowest common denominator. Some of the content is still great (i.e. r/dwarffortress), but a lot of the site has degraded into junk. If anyone has some good subreddits that are still decent, I'd love to know what they are.

adpirz 14y ago
foodforthought truereddit, economics and if you unsubscribe from pics, funny, adviceanimals, aww, and atheism (regardless of whether you are or not, it's just not high quality content), you'll find that things suddenly get a whoooole lot better
topbanana 14y ago
http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pv4lu/ http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pv4lu/
- RegEx 14y ago
  This might be the first permissible use of quickmeme on HN ;)
zem 14y ago
there are a lot of excellent small subreddit, but their appeal will obviously depend on whether you share that subinterest. some good larger ones are /r/askscience, /r/printsf and /r/coding.
- RegEx 14y ago
  /r/learnprogramming is a great place to learn and contribute
shortlived 14y ago
It's all about the subreddits http://subreddits.org/ http://subreddits.org/
mkr-hn 14y ago

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nikcub 14y ago

the cost of switching with content aggregators is so low, and there is a network effect in the switch, so I would never write digg off. just thinking about it, I would probably give whatever they build next a chance

yuhong 14y ago

Yea, this reminds me of the MS/IBM DOS 4.0 fiasco, though in this case it is much worse.