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Re: RethinkDigg.com

#11

Post by uptown » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

So what'd they buy? No team. Scrapped the old code. 500k for the name, and the ability to get a percentage of their old users to at least take a look when they launch?

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#12

Post by jonny_eh » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

jrlevine wrote: post #6

pavel_lishin wrote: post #4

Their question about "how do you get your news" is very significantly missing Reddit or Hacker News as an answer.

wow, good call. late night oversight. edited the survey.

That section should have radio buttons for the rows, not checkboxes.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#13

Post by jmduke » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #11

So what'd they buy? No team. Scrapped the old code. 500k for the name, and the ability to get a percentage of their old users to at least take a look when they launch?

500K for an initial glut of 4million unique dailies?

Obviously that number will drop off real quick, but still.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#14

Post by mcfunley » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

A SURVEY. Oh this is definitely going to work.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#15

Post by jedberg » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

jrlevine wrote: post #8

jedberg wrote: post #7

They're not off to a good start. I just spent 10 minutes filling out the text boxes on page two, and it just lost all of that info. I hope the site works better than the survey.

Really? Just tested again and it worked fine. Sorry about that. @ me on twitter @jrlevine if you're still willing to give feedback.

I just filled it out again and it worked. I think I got hosed because you changed the survey while I was taking it. :)

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by jrlevine » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #15

jrlevine wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Just tested again and it worked fine. Sorry about that. @ me on twitter @jrlevine if you're still willing to give feedback.

I just filled it out again and it worked. I think I got hosed because you changed the survey while I was taking it. :)

hah, my bad! thanks again for doing it.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#17

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

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Re: RethinkDigg.com

#18

Post by yuhong » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

This has been submitted into digg itself: http://digg.com/news/technology/digg_rebuilding_from_scratch...

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#19

Post by mcantelon » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks.

Famous last words.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#20

Post by laberge » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

blu3jack wrote: post #2

Ironically, it was "rethinking digg" and "rebuilding it from scratch" that killed it in the first place.

Not really though, everyone knew that V4 was a terrible idea and they simply went forward without caring much for the community. I mean what kind of marketing research could you do to prove that using promoted stories is a good way to build a community?