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Would it not have been possible to "cement" those pages into static HTML and throw them up on a CDN? The only thing "digg" about Digg now is the domain name. Wh
by alttab 14y ago
Would it not have been possible to "cement" those pages into static HTML and throw them up on a CDN? The only thing "digg" about Digg now is the domain name. Why they bought that and then threw out the baby with the bathwater is beyond me.
- cookiecaper 14y agoFor what it's worth something like this is still probably possible. I'd be shocked if any sensible person would get access to Digg's dataset only to delete it immediately thereafter. While they've replaced the site with something else to get the ball rolling, I don't get the impression that they're crass and/or ignorant enough to just destroy the whole thing, so we may yet see an archive of the old Digg. Also, I think the old Digg demonstrated that it didn't really care much about the data anyway.
- geon 14y agoConsidering all the popular reposts on Reddit, they could use the database of already submitted Digg content to populate the daily stream of links when not much else is happening.
- craigvn 14y agoBecause the baby was dead.