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what does he care? if you think they are making a mistake, great, they are your competitor... why bother writing an open letter? I also don't get what he is ranting about..I think the new Digg looks great, just when I was starting to get sick of the top news stories not being relevant to me, now I will be able to follow people with similar interests, just like twitter, but I don't have to read through what they had f…
Has he spent any time with Kevin? Because frankly this version reeks of Kevin - it's just endless twiddling with design and a fear of doing anything to actually change the way the site works.
You certainly know him better than me, Owen. I don't profess to know Kevin at all. In fact, I'd be interested to read your "open letter to alexis: stfu, here's the real explanation for digg4"
As someone who used to work at a newspaper and harangue the business editor about how corrupt the editorial process was, long before digg, I occasionally get angry. Probably for similar reasons to your post.
Cmon green card...
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Let me only confirm that I'm entirely speculating.
You don't like the direction Digg is going. If you were the one making the decisions what would you do?
And i'd make that digg mascot more prominent, maybe change it around for holidays, too.
what does he care? if you think they are making a mistake, great, they are your competitor... why bother writing an open letter? I also don't get what he is ranting about..I think the new Digg looks great, just when I was starting to get sick of the top news stories not being relevant to me, now I will be able to follow people with similar interests, just like twitter, but I don't have to read through what they had f…
They're not his competitor, he left Reddit months ago.
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though). Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people…
Uhh...what? These are features that seem kindof obvious to me...I think they're awesome. In fact, this is really similar to something that I used to do on my website over a year ago (we stopped doing it because there weren't enough users to make it feasible at that time...some of the ideas still exist though). Alexis, one of the problems with reddit, at least right now, is that there are just too many freaking people…
In another life, we'd have made usercreated reddits a better solution for the curse of popularity. People weren't making "friends" on digg for much else than spreading their content, so I suspect most of the networks in place aren't adding much value to me as a reader. V4 makes the process all the more transparent - publishers plugging in RSS feeds that autodigg each post is a far cry from a reader powered frontpage.…
Ahahahaha I laugh because I know exactly what you're talking about ;-).
Your guys' comment system really is, in my opinion, the most addictive feature on the site. Those damn orange envelopes man... :) Thanks for the kind words, really.
an open letter to Alexis Ohanian fix search, it's been broken for a couple of weeks now.
This is such obvious linkbait that it even admits "this title is linkbait" at the bottom. He means give the power back to Kevin Rose, which is exactly what appears to have happened recently. So... non-story.
What? I don't understand what the big problem with some HN users and 'linkbait'. Who cares? It's called journalism. In order to catch attention, the headline has to be attention grabbing. This post was soo timely for HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1384994 If the article was garbage, then yes I would agree with you. But who cares if he manipulates the headline to get attention. The next time you write a blog…
Baby-Proofer: Your baby is dead!
Homer and Marge: [horrified scream]
Baby-Proofer: That's what you'd hear if your baby
fell victim to one of the thousands of deathtraps
lurking in the average American home!
an open letter to Alexis Ohanian fix search, it's been broken for a couple of weeks now.
Reddit search? Was there ever one?
Except I never use it, googling site:reddit.com along with my search terms and possibly inurl:subreddit-keyword gets the job done
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You don't like the direction Digg is going. If you were the one making the decisions what would you do?
Hmm... User-created diggs (like we have on reddit, but better articulated & designed - I say this as the closest thing reddit had to a designer, I'm no designer). I have no idea about headcount, so I won't speculate there, only to say that reddit's ratio of 1 non tech for every 5 technical worked well for us. And i'd make that digg mascot more prominent, maybe change it around for holidays, too.
But apart from the programming subreddit I go to the AMA section from time to time and that has allowed me to really grasp the beauty of the subreddit system. It allows each subreddit to develop it's own personality in that it's not just the topics that change as is the case with a category system but the feel and concept of the community changes as well and it offers a unique experience to learn and interact.
You guys really did a great job with Reddit!