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An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by fleaflicker »

kn0thing wrote: post #43
silkodyssey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Basically reddit with a different skin?

Is digg a site you frequent? Why so interested in its fate? Wouldn't you rather see reddit leave it in the dust?

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by steveklabnik »

kn0thing wrote: post #44
steveklabnik wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not his competitor, he left Reddit months ago.

Exactly the reason why I felt OK publishing it. I'm still a redditor of course, but breadpig is my only ... uhh.. horse in this race.

By the way, thanks for Reddit. I still enjoy it immensely, even if it has gone downhill lately.

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by budu3 »

I'm a Reddit fan but come on Alexis. Let Kevin be. Digg v4 hasn't even been released to the public yet. You left Reddit a long time ago. If you were still at Reddit then I'd chalk this down as a little trash talk from a competitor. You're no longer in the game. Give him time to prove himself.

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by kn0thing »

budu3 wrote: post #53

I'm a Reddit fan but come on Alexis. Let Kevin be. Digg v4 hasn't even been released to the public yet. You left Reddit a long time ago. If you were still at Reddit then I'd chalk this down as a little trash talk from a competitor. You're no longer in the game. Give him time to prove himself.

My intention was quite the opposite from trash talking. As a commenter articulated, this feels more like something forced on him by acquisition hungry VCs than of his own design.

Digg was in a way one of the best external things that could've happened to reddit: it did all the work of educating people to the concept of "social news" and provided a Goliath to our community's David.

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by mistermann »

blhack wrote: post #14

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…

I agree, I think I might actually go back to digg and try this out. If they gave enough intelligent filtering options + other extremely useful features, this could even draw people away from HN theoretically.

While they're at it, screw diaspora, digg should go after facebook as well, I'd trust them more (which isn't saying much.)

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by axod »

blhack wrote: post #14

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…

The other problem with Reddit is of course that it's fairly often broken or ridiculously slow lately.

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by pclark »

ojbyrne wrote: post #27

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 always sound really bitter about Digg. I really hope you've let this go and done awesome stuff post Digg, rather than dwelling on the past. This isn't an insult, just concern.

Re: An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

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Post by abrahamsen »

phatboyslim wrote: post #12

Digg still crushes reddit in traffic. I'm not saying traffic is an indicator of profitablity, but it's apparent they are either marketing it better, or more people prefer it. Either way, it's tough to argue "with the people" based on the author's indication of importance. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+digg.com/

Maybe in traffic, but the same number of people google for the two sites, and the trend line is not in diggs favor:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg%2Creddit%2Cslashdot%2Cha...

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