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Why are people still building Digg clones?
by myoung8 19y ago
Why are people still building Digg clones?
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- thomasswift 19y agoDon't knock him for that. What have you built?
- jdavid 19y agoif its not a digg clone, you can start marketing it by not describing it as having the same metrics of a digg clone. how is it different?
- jdavid 19y agohttp://www.gatherama.com/ http://www.gatherama.com/ if this is your site, then i would describe it as a way to poll people about a website with user submitted options to vote on. digg is a 1 metric site, your site adds value by allowing people to define their own metrics.
- apgwoz 19y agoI'd lose the digg color scheme though. It's very much reminiscent of digg.
- webwright 19y agoAre we really believing that Digg is the unsurpassable pinnacle of social news? Before Google came along, the search space looked pretty mature with plenty of entrenched players.
- breily 19y agoI would think its not that Digg is the pinnacle that these sites can be, but that social news sites are not usually defined by their features-even if a new social news site makes tons of improvements over the digg/reddit model, it simply won't have the user base that digg does. No one wants to use a social news site that no one else uses. Whereas with search, it doesn't really matter that no one else uses it because search isn't about other people.
- Kaizyn 19y agoIf you could solve the problems of 1) users reposting the popular links from other social sites (without attribution), 2) spam bots, or 3) a ruling clique from taking over the front page, then you could compete with Digg and probably beat them.