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Dang I thought this was going to be a throwback (2013) article about Digg's post-v4 relaunch [0] by Betaworks. > The new Digg has little in common with the old
by danso 2y ago
Dang I thought this was going to be a throwback (2013) article about Digg's post-v4 relaunch [0] by Betaworks.
> The new Digg has little in common with the old site: it has big photos instead of tiny text, does not allow for comments, and most importantly, it depends on human editors in addition to an algorithm that weighs user voting. So far, people seem to like it. A new survey, this time with 2,600 users, showed that 81 percent would recommend the new Digg to a friend.
One thing I remember about this phase was how good the headlines were, they must have paid a decent sum for human editors.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/4/3950596/diggs-traffic-rebounds-after-relaunch-but-users-remain-on-the https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/4/3950596/diggs-traffic-rebo...
- almosthere 2y agoI "liked" the new digg after it was purchased because someone took up the mantle, but I expected it to grow into the features it was missing, even perhaps have a new diggnation podcast behind it. But it basically just sat still, hoping to just ride the domain name. It also went extreme woke since I believe the human editors were hired that way.