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So they really did nuke the whole thing. There's no legacy content migration, none of the user DB is intact. It seriously was just a premium domain buy. Fascina

So they really did nuke the whole thing. There's no legacy content migration, none of the user DB is intact. It seriously was just a premium domain buy. Fascinating

Shank 14y ago
It's all still in their backend - they're making a tool to pull old data out. http://digg.com/archive http://digg.com/archive
mcantelon 14y ago
The 6 week "rewrite" did sound foolhardy. Now it turns out it wasn't a rewrite, it was a replacement (a significantly quicker thing to do).