How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass
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How Reddit Kicked Digg’s Ass
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#2Glad to see that dried meat sales went up.
edit: I'm also quite impressed with reddit's professionalism. It also appears that reddit is back to being reddit. The digg users have been assimilated.
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#3It is kind of sad to see what has happened to Digg. It uses to be a simple site with a simple purpose and an elegant design. They have now morph it into a hybrid of some sort.
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#4Will the wave of users coming from Digg be useful participants?
Will there be any paid gaming of Reddit?
Will Reddit turn into a sewer as it grows, as did Digg?
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#5Will the wave of users coming from Digg be useful participants? Will there be any paid gaming of Reddit? Will Reddit turn into a sewer as it grows, as did Digg?
I've visited reddit a fair number of times and haven't found much use for it over other sites. The comments on reddit are typically about as valuable as those on 4chan with the modification that they are on average less entertaining and also contain fewer pictures of genitalia (on average).
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#6I lost interest in Digg a few years ago, most of the posts seem to be lists or funny images or just totally banal.
Also there's some bizarre political movements that seem to move throughout Digg, that largely seems to sit on the right wing side of the spectrum
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#7Will the wave of users coming from Digg be useful participants? Will there be any paid gaming of Reddit? Will Reddit turn into a sewer as it grows, as did Digg?
It already did, alas. A couple of years ago it was really nice, but even when selecting only a few potentially interesting reddits (programming, science, etc), some posts are OK but comments are more and more both useless and stupid.
So finally I spend much more time on HN now. Though the problem is that probably most older reddit users will come there, then pushing the HN old-timers to start some alternate HN-clone :)
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#8Will the wave of users coming from Digg be useful participants? Will there be any paid gaming of Reddit? Will Reddit turn into a sewer as it grows, as did Digg?
It already did, alas. A couple of years ago it was really nice, but even when selecting only a few potentially interesting reddits (programming, science, etc), some posts are OK but comments are more and more both useless and stupid. So finally I spend much more time on HN now. Though the problem is that probably most older reddit users will come there, then pushing the HN old-timers to start some alternate HN-clone…
As I always do when someone starts off on this flight of mythology, allow me to suggest that you read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy":
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
You may learn some things about these cycles of "I was on Site X and it was great, then went to crap, then I went to Site Y, then it went to crap..." which will surprise you, and which -- at least in my reading and based on my experience of spending the last decade building community-oriented sites -- hint that reddit's doing way, way better than HN.
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#9I used to read digg way back when, but someone alerted me to the whole situation and I watched it crumble, and it was... spectacular. It was like a cyberpunk novel. People didn't just move to reddit, they moved to reddit, and then salted the earth behind them.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It already did, alas. A couple of years ago it was really nice, but even when selecting only a few potentially interesting reddits (programming, science, etc), some posts are OK but comments are more and more both useless and stupid. So finally I spend much more time on HN now. Though the problem is that probably most older reddit users will come there, then pushing the HN old-timers to start some alternate HN-clone…
As I always do when someone starts off on this flight of mythology, allow me to suggest that you read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy": http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html You may learn some things about these cycles of "I was on Site X and it was great, then went to crap, then I went to Site Y, then it went to crap..." which will surprise you, and which -- at least in my reading and based o…
Thanks for that link. This really, really hit home with me.