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Digg.com is back
- maxbaines 1y agoHave a soft spot for digg
- eqmvii 1y agoI barely remember the time before reddit - crazy how the redesign seemed to kill it the first time around!
- basch 1y agopredates the iphone!
- number6 1y agoOk for someone that came late to the party - what is digg? "Humancentric technology at the edge" - love this in my sci-fi books but what does it do?
- righthand 1y agoReddit before reddit.
- rishav_sharan 1y agoA community driven link aggregator site. Think of a cross between Reddit and a forum. It was one of the biggest sites/communities in the 2000s.
- permo-w 1y agobesides "It was one of the biggest sites/communities in the 2000s" you're describing HN
- AlecSchueler 1y agoKinda like HN but you could share political news without it getting flagged.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoThat's what it was but what will this reboot be?
- Terr_ 1y ago> Think of a cross between Reddit and a forum. That's not quite right: Digg was closer to a pure link-sharing site, being able to comment and discuss was lackluster. Digg <-> Reddit <-> Webforum
- pmontra 1y agoThe buzzwords are news aggregator, or social bookmarking. Kind of HN for the masses. I don't remember if there were comments but one could vote links up or down.
- mrtksn 1y agoIt's where Reddit's userbase came from but it isn't exactly like reddit. It was more like HN until they ruined it to make the investors happy and instead investors got their investment killed in one day.
- ksherlock 1y agoit's the missing link between slashdot and reddit.
- righthand 1y agoWhen did it leave? Was there a period of time where the site was offline? Looks like they just tore down the old site and put up a landing page?
- phire 1y agoThe original Digg was shut down around 2012 (though really it died in 2010). The domain was sold off and the new owners replaced it with something that might have looked like Digg at first glance, but it was entirely relying on editors to select posts... Basically, it was a curated blog themed to look like a social media site. That version of Digg limped along for almost twice as long as the original Digg, until a few months back when the domain was sold to Keven Rose (one of the original Digg founders) and Alexis Ohanian (one of reddit's co-founders).
- topato 1y agoWhoa Kevin Rose bought it back? Interesting. Also... bring back TechTV lol
- Havoc 1y agoWill be interesting to see if they manage to pull off a reboot of what is functionally a semi-tarnished brand.
- nailer 1y agoThe struggle isn't people remembering Digg badly, it's people not remembering Digg at all.
- Havoc 1y agoIn which case why not go for branding that doesn't have baggage?
- nailer 1y agoIt has baggage but also some value. Oldheads like me remember Digg positively, and it was certainly more upbeat (cool tech! movies! science!) that the current Reddit front page (6 angry articles about US politics and a school fight).
- haburka 1y agoI think that social media has been a massive experiment where we asked, what if we let capital interests subvert our desire for community to get us to watch ads? And we have learned that it’s just not a good idea. I think perhaps Digg was one of the better ones but I solemnly wish social media was mostly illegal, especially advertising based, for profit sites. I think hacker news manages to be ok since it doesn’t rely on advertising which makes it much more palatable.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago> I think hacker news manages to be ok since it doesn’t rely on advertising which makes it much more palatable. It's also worth considering that you could just be part of the right demographic that finds it palatable. I know in certain circles the HN groupthink on women's issues for example are seen as a meme.
- phailhaus 1y agoThis doesn't make sense, since it's advertisers who are the ones putting pressure on sites like Twitter to stop spreading extremist content. The problem is that humans are extremely willing to enter echo chambers where they are told they are right all the time. That's what they will do by default. So if you optimize for engagement, they will radicalize themselves very quickly. If you figure out how to power a social network without ads, you will get something a hundred times worse than Facebook, because there will be no pressure to moderate content at all.
- tempfile 1y agoCase in point, 4chan
- whywhywhywhy 1y agoFunnily enough it still has ads.
- ecocentrik 1y ago
- ok123456 1y agoJust in time for Ron Paul's 90th birthday.
- alex1138 1y agoits_happening.gif
- Wonnk13 1y agoI was a refugee of the Great Digg Migration to reddit some 14 or so years ago. old.reddit and adblockers as well as very aggressive curation of subreddits have kept it to an overall positive experience over the decade. I think overall I'm just less enthusiastic about the internet; everytime I come back from a week or two of backpacking without internet connection I realize how overstimulated with inane bullshit we all are.
- hn_throw_250820 1y agoAgreed. Throwaway account because I’m an internet nomad and I don’t have a long term account here (they get banned anyway). Don’t forget Digg’s demise wasn’t just the revamp, it’s that most of the front page was dominated by a few people who were literally posting all the damn time. It’s amusing to see the usual HN flex with smug superiority but both Reddit and 4chan even to this today demolish HN in every (good and bad) criteria. Moderation here has stifled honest discussion in favor of safe-harbor, bullshit talking points. But it’s all for lulz.
- hn_ohnoes 1y ago"Don’t forget Digg’s demise wasn’t just the revamp, it’s that most of the front page was dominated by a few people who were literally posting all the damn time." It was even stupider than that. Digg didn't even have a real, working promotion system. It was literally one guy who personally curated the big stories. Google almost bought them but looked under the hood and immediately bailed. The upvotes were all smoke and mirrors.
- monster_truck 1y agoEvery time someone mentions reddit 14 years ago all I can think about are all the admins that allowed r/jailbait on the front page. I honestly wouldn't tell people you used it then
- giancarlostoro 1y agoSome people probably used reddit like me, I never looked at the front page, I just went straight to a sub link directly. I remember always pulling up rage comics. I didn't care about comments, or any other communities.
- johnnyApplePRNG 1y agoHard pass. Digg already taught me once what happens when a platform betrays its community for short-term gain. Don’t need a sequel.
- kmfrk 1y agoNostalgic for the old Digg days. Invite-only communities not so much. But given the botting all over social media, guess I can't blame them. I would not be surprised if there's a lot of brouhaha over how it's moderated, since moderation is considered way more controversial now than it used to be in the old days.
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- m3kw9 1y agois digg.com is hackernews but for everything?
- crmd 1y agoBack in the day I was mostly on slashdot, Reddit, digg, and metafilter. Digg was the first site where I started seeing brainrot nonsense content on the front page every day, with orders of magnitude larger than usual upvotes of tech news, from the same small number of usernames (Mr BabyMan, I hate that I even remember your stupid username). For me, Digg was the first time experiencing product managers experimenting with modern proto-influencer virality algorithms. It made the internet worse, and now every site does it.
- Yhippa 1y agoYou forgot Fark! Except that was unironic brainrot and everybody knew what it was. Unlike now, where critical thinking went out the window and everybody takes things at face value.
- crmd 1y agoFark was great. All hail Drew!
- adzm 1y agoMetafilter is still around and still great content!
- topato 1y agoWow, I was trying to remember his username, but I wasn't even getting close. Quite impressive haha.
- autoexec 1y agoDigg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a good sign.
- system2 1y ago[flagged]
- lc9er 1y agoThey’re are plenty of bigot-loving Reddit clones, if that’s your thing.
- system2 1y agoNo, my thing is free internet. Not bigot-loving or hardcore leftist sites. On Reddit, if you say anything that is not leftist, you will get banned or deleted these days. I am a liberal, not left or right wing.
- throwawaylaptop 1y ago[flagged]
- 113 1y agoAre you talking about medical transition? Why'd you have to use scary euphemisms to refer to something?
- throwawaylaptop 1y agoMy wording sounds way more accurate and less euphemism like than "medical transition".
- mtillman 1y agoI’ve been a user during the alpha/beta process and their response rate to bug fixes has been great imo. The frequent posters kickstarting the flywheel are pretty spammy but I think it’s to drive traffic to publishers who have consistent ad traffic. They will eventually have to monetize their traffic so I’m pretty convinced they’ve hired people to post content from trash sites like pc world and the like. That said, impressed with the pace of development.
- IshKebab 1y agoThat's what Reddit did originally too. I wouldn't be too surprised if they just use AI to do it now.
- kstrauser 1y agoI'm cautiously optimistic. I was active on Reddit for ages (thanks for letting me in on the IPO!) but nuked my account the summer when they killed all the 3rd party clients. I miss having something like Reddit, even if that site itself is dead to me.
- alberth 1y agoI loved Digg back in the day, and as such - I paid to be a Digg Groundbreaker. I am still confused what the new Digg is (on the web) When I login, I don't see any news/articles/content. I only see the ability for me to post (and the meme image below) https://i.imgur.com/kBOAlZS.gif https://i.imgur.com/kBOAlZS.gif Note: this doesn't seem to be a problem in the app ... but why do I need to run an app when this could easily just be available on the web.
- idontwantthis 1y agoNot sure what you are seeing but it tells me it’s in invite only beta.
- nextzck 1y agoRequest the desktop site, mobile version (non-app is WIP). Desktop version mostly works on mobile, some small issues with achievement display.
- Yhippa 1y agoIt's been so long. Can someone refresh my memory about the exodus from Digg a long time ago? I remember a lot of Ron Paul spam but that's about it.
- tawlarky 1y agoNah it was all Obama, once he got elected they shut everything down. Same thing now, the new digg is all anti-maga. It doesn't matter to me either way, but politics polarizes people. That's why I rarely come here or post here.
- ryanmcbride 1y agonew user signups disabled?
- zuccs 1y agoBeta users got 2 invites when it just went live. Not sure if they have a date planned for new users yet.
- parpfish 1y agoMy ideal social media site would be a slight modification of the link aggregator model. Instead of a centralized repository of links with comments, it would be a sort of overlay on top of every other website that would create a comment section that isn’t owned or moderated by the original host. It would encourage folks to actual read the original articles and visit those sites, but allow you to have discussions with a particular demographic cohort (e.g., have a discussion among HN crowd on a nytimes article)
- jimbob45 1y agoSo Disqus? (I'm not dismissing you. I like Disqus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus
- mckn1ght 1y agoSounds kinda like StumbleUpon with comments. I'm not sure I'd like to host unmoderated content on my site, but I do miss the original StumbleUpon experience. Reading through the history of what happened to StumbleUpon in the 2010s is sad, and indicates that this idea may not actually be viable (or maybe was ahead of its time, or maybe wasn't done right).
- basch 1y agoIt essentially needs to be a p2p/dht list of disconnected hosts who all provide communities that can be overlaid. You dont want one comment section. Then through filters you can enable or disable which communities you want to see. It also should be a protocol that lets the client decide how to render the organization of comments and the editor.
- dronf23 1y agoI mean, I love digg, I even worked there for years....but digg didn't make it for a reason. It wasn't the new release of digg that killed it, it was the fact that reddit was just better in every way. I don't know what digg can do that is worth the views it will need to survive. GenX nostalgia can only take you so far.
- genpfault 1y ago> Digg.com is back In Pog form?
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNo one's really asking for this. And anyone that's asking for it is just looking for another forum/site to surf amidst thousands of subreddits and discords and the main social posting networks (of which now include the fediverse, bluesky, whatever). This isn't really worth eyeballs or the inevitable forced media coverage. Not to mention the inevitable mistelling of what happened with Digg v4 and the 'right place right time' that allowed Reddit to survive. Let sleeping dogs lie.
- SirFatty 1y ago"Digg is currently invite only." Pass.
- ZunarJ5 1y agoI don't know what to say other than, ok.
- gdsdfe 1y agoOkay can we get back delicio.us now ?!
- morneejewellery 1y ago[dead]
- subsection1h 1y agoI did a Ctrl+F for "Patriots" and "ASCII" in this thread, and I didn't see any results, which was surprising because what killed Digg for me were two issues: the Digg Patriots who brigaded many discussions and all of the stupid ASCII art in the comments, such as "It's a trap!": https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/585451-alphabet-zoo/50196169 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/585451-alphabet-zoo/501...
- slowmovintarget 1y agoWhen do we get Slashdot as it used to be?
- duxup 1y agoIMO Slashdot lost out due to being a fairly focused site and more generalist sites with little focused areas won out, and I'm not sure Slashdot's focus when it was popular would have that big an audience anyway.
- duxup 1y agoIs this an app only thing? No web option?
- Graziano_M 1y agoRemember Digg? It's back. In Pog form.
- arctics 1y agoDownload on the AppStore, get it on Google Play. Conversation should be over here.
- KevinMS 1y agoEverybody get ready for the new Digg effect!
- jijikuya 1y agoThis is about 3 years too late to have any impact.
- bloccs 1y ago[dead]