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I imagine they would leave it alone as much as possible, because they aren't sure what's bringing in all the traffic. Wouldn't want to be another Digg.
by kmfrk 12y ago
I imagine they would leave it alone as much as possible, because they aren't sure what's bringing in all the traffic. Wouldn't want to be another Digg.
- pan69 12y agoIts funny how similar the Digg and Myspace home pages look..
- andreasklinger 12y agoMost likely a lot of that traffic is just SEO traffic that bounces away when they don't find what they look for. 50M sounds like a vanity number of unique visitors. Still a lot but not comparable (thus actionable or risky-to-destroy) to eg "50M active users" (to be fair twitter/fb and co usually also communicate the unique visitors afair)
- nebula 12y agoWhat's Digg's story. Curious to know.
- kmfrk 12y agotl;dr: Digg was the original reddit - much bigger, reddit was the underdog. Digg did a redesign that was absolutely horrible and created a huge backlash. Because Digg did not create a backup/proper versioning, they couldn't go back to the old design, and people migrated to reddit. The rest, as they say, is history.
- mercnet 12y agoThey released a new version and members hated it They had no way of rolling back to the older version. http://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill-a-community-50450 http://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill...