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I'm actually fairly optimistic about this idea. Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to l

I'm actually fairly optimistic about this idea. Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with. What I'd really like to see Digg do is move towards dealing with social sharing of news not completely unlike Kippt. They could have it so that your personal feed could be a(n easily seperable) mix of both your rss feed and your friends/folowees. Then they could make their frontpage an aggregation of commonly shared stories, sortable by tags. I think that would really allow them to be a social news hub that's different than a lot of the social news hubs out there now, with the name recognition of Digg.

niggler 14y ago
"Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with." That's not clear. FTA it was much later in the roadmap, so its not clear whether stepping up that process now makes sense (or if they are reacting to current demand that is quickly dissipating as people commit to other products)
- publicfig 14y ago
  I think stepping up any process that can get them a user base that even passively interacts with them on a regular basis is better than anything else for them right now. They're in that odd position that they have a well known name but no well known product behind it. They kind of have to play it reactionary if they're going to keep that name in the position it's in.
HNLogInShit 14y ago
Calling their sell-out a "pivot" is a crock. They became a conduit for spam, shilling for the same five Web sites with stories from those sites "voted" to the front page day after day. They deserved their decline into oblivion, and should be shunned perpetually. Lie to your users, go to hell.
rpgmaker 14y ago
RIP Digg. I think if they had just downgraded from v4 they could've retained some users (the "twitter killed digg" meme is overstated), sure they would've lost face but they at least would've kept some users.
- stephen_g 14y ago
  Yeah, Digg version 2 was my favourite - back when it was a just a really simple technology news site with higher then average comment quality (a bit like Hacker News is now). It really degraded fast as they expanded, and every upgrade seemed to make it worse...
  - easytiger 14y ago
    are you mad? it never had any particular level of intelligent discussion. You could only have one deep nested comments.

niggler 14y ago

"Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with." That's not clear. FTA it was much later in the roadmap, so its not clear whether stepping up that process now makes sense (or if they are reacting to current demand that is quickly dissipating as people commit to other products)

publicfig 14y ago
I think stepping up any process that can get them a user base that even passively interacts with them on a regular basis is better than anything else for them right now. They're in that odd position that they have a well known name but no well known product behind it. They kind of have to play it reactionary if they're going to keep that name in the position it's in.

HNLogInShit 14y ago

Calling their sell-out a "pivot" is a crock. They became a conduit for spam, shilling for the same five Web sites with stories from those sites "voted" to the front page day after day. They deserved their decline into oblivion, and should be shunned perpetually. Lie to your users, go to hell.

rpgmaker 14y ago

RIP Digg. I think if they had just downgraded from v4 they could've retained some users (the "twitter killed digg" meme is overstated), sure they would've lost face but they at least would've kept some users.

stephen_g 14y ago
Yeah, Digg version 2 was my favourite - back when it was a just a really simple technology news site with higher then average comment quality (a bit like Hacker News is now). It really degraded fast as they expanded, and every upgrade seemed to make it worse...
- easytiger 14y ago
  are you mad? it never had any particular level of intelligent discussion. You could only have one deep nested comments.