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Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by SquareWheel »

alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

    Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse.
I didn't know Reddit had their own power plant.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by burke »

hello_asdf wrote: post #35
jgroome wrote: post #13

> The News.me team will take Digg back to its essence: the best place to find, read and share the stories the internet is talking about. Right now. With my cynicism hat on nice and tight, it seems a bit late for that. Digg WAS, in its heyday, the best place to find and share online content. But as the management undertook on iffy decision after another, and as imitators sprung up left right and centre, it lost its pl…

I liked Reddit back when it was less well known. Now, it just appears that the content appeals to the lowest common denominator. Some of the content is still great (i.e. r/dwarffortress), but a lot of the site has degraded into junk. If anyone has some good subreddits that are still decent, I'd love to know what they are.

/r/askscience and /r/depthhub are pretty consistently good.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by PaulHoule »

underdown wrote: post #53
PaulHoule wrote: post #11

the trouble is that fixing Digg means getting rid of the existing user base

Ya, Kevin & Jay tried that back in 2006 - worked out real well for them.

they gotta get them to sign a statement that they'll click on ads

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by blhack »

alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

No it doesn't.

Go to the front page of reddit right now and try to find me a piece of news.

I see 2 items out of 25 links.

One of them is a [linkbait title] story about wikileaks winning a case against VISA (in iceland).

The other is about a Canadian supreme court ruling.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by Angostura »

dreadsword wrote: post #29
spinchange wrote: post #19

I used to love digg in the early days. People point to the v4 revision as being the final nail, but they started wavering and losing the magic literal years before that. FWIW, Pligg (the digg clone CMS) looks like it's getting a twitter bootstrap upgrade. I've been wanting to roll my own "digg/reddit/HN" for ages. Maybe now's the time. http://www.pligg.com/demo/

FYI: Reddit is open source. You don't have to roll your own, just go git it: https://github.com/reddit/

FWIW, I found Pligg a lot easier to configure and set up when I needed to create a quick intranet news portal last year.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by Tobu »

marknutter wrote: post #50

This is a case of a company having delusions of grandeur. Instead of humming along with 10 or so employees raking in cash hand-over fist, they tried to grow as fast and as large as possible to try to revolutionize news. Instead, Reddit did the former and is stable and profitable; it never pretends to be something it's not. Not all companies are going to change the world, nor should they. I see Facebook and Twitter ma…

It's the nature of venture capital: shower founders with money, now they're burning through it and they are in your debt. Either they find a way to make it big, or the startup is driven to the ground.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by SquareWheel »

blhack wrote: post #65
alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

No it doesn't. Go to the front page of reddit right now and try to find me a piece of news. I see 2 items out of 25 links. One of them is a [linkbait title] story about wikileaks winning a case against VISA (in iceland). The other is about a Canadian supreme court ruling.

My Reddit frontpage has plenty of news stories, but those are the subreddits I happen to subscribe to. I'm sure the news agencies aren't subscribed to the "Advice Animals" subreddit.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by citricsquid »

blhack wrote: post #65
alaskamiller wrote: post #41

Reddit won the game, slow and steady. Reddit now literally powers the generation of news cycles across the blogerverse. BuzzFeed? HuffPo? Gawker? TheDaily? Reddit, yesterday. First thing first is rescue the culture. Digg engineering already fled, the peanut gallery in the valley keeps squawking with delight about your failure, and all you have left is some nicely designed pages showing double digit gains on stale lin…

No it doesn't. Go to the front page of reddit right now and try to find me a piece of news. I see 2 items out of 25 links. One of them is a [linkbait title] story about wikileaks winning a case against VISA (in iceland). The other is about a Canadian supreme court ruling.

The replies you'll get are "you make your own reddit, just remove the popular subreddits!" but you're right. reddit is usable for hardcore users that want to invest real time into their experience, it's atrocious for casual users (that don't care for the meme spam). There is a large hole that (new) Digg could fill.
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