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Without a radical turnaround, yeah, I think so. It feels very much like Digg did back in the day. When your userbase is your main asset and you treat them as
by clavalle 11y ago
Without a radical turnaround, yeah, I think so. It feels very much like Digg did back in the day.
When your userbase is your main asset and you treat them as a given, bad things happen.
- VieElm 11y agoWhen Digg died it was a combination of unpopular policy and a completely broken v4 upgrade that broke the site for weeks.
- maccard 11y agoExcept that reedit had the population before digg crashed. There currently aren't any sizeable alternatives to reedit right now, so the same thing can't possibly happen
- clavalle 11y agoIt can absolutely happen. The population is primed. The same scenario doesn't have to play out for the end result to be the same. Digg had some mildly bad policy before their exodus. Reddit policy is failing in a much more dramatic way. If someone comes out with a viable alternative with, perhaps, one or two notable improvements there is enough froth to push people to a new home. I personally hope it fragments. The slacktivists and amateur political wonks to one corner with the news, the popular entertainment to the other, and the learners/hobbyists/special interest associations to yet another. Reddit is the Craigslist of 2015. It is doing too much and it is ready to be picked apart.