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I loved Digg when it was v1 and just a technology news site. They always had great content that kept me up to date on the newest tech articles. Then they starte
by Osiris 14y ago
I loved Digg when it was v1 and just a technology news site. They always had great content that kept me up to date on the newest tech articles. Then they started adding other news categories and the front page became a bunch of random news articles that mostly didn't interest me.
Even if you went to the "Technology" page, it would only show those articles that had made it to the front page, meaning there'd be less than 10 new articles on that page per day.
Then it just started become spam with spammers using huge groups of users to upvote bad content like infographs.
I've visited it a few times in the past few months just to see what was going on and it's a really, really bad user experience right now. Really just awful.
- gamble 14y agoIf I was to speculate, I'd say that the early Digg audience may have been what ultimately led them down the path to failure. The ranking algorithm on Digg was blatantly rigged to produce a front page with mass-market appeal. Overly nerdy or political submissions rarely made the cut. I suspect that, early on, Digg's leadership decided that allowing users too much control over content would keep Digg in a nerd/leftist niche that couldn't be monetized. A lack of respect for democratic control over the front page ultimately led them to ignore voting rings, gaming, and spammers; and eventually justified handing over control to the marketeers and content farms in Digg v4.
- jakerocheleau 14y agomaybe check out the social news site http://sourcecanvas.com/ http://sourcecanvas.com/