Digg.com is back • Hacker News Board

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by ifyoubuildit » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

antisthenes wrote: post #119

scythe wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is basically misguided. Digg failed because their commenter UX was clunky. It tried to split the baby between linear and tree comments and just ended up being a mess. Reddit had been slowly stealing traffic from Digg for years by the time of the "rebellion". In the end, Reddit became many times larger than Digg ever was. The biggest problem with displacing Reddit as such is that currently most of the use…

Fair assessment. I think Reddit right now sits in some weird space between Discord/Nextdoor/Quora, with most content posted after ~2018-2019 being extremely low quality, outside of some niche subreddits. But overall it is just a gateway to other platforms where the really interesting conversations are happening and content is being created.

> with most content posted after ~2018-2019 being extremely low quality, outside of some niche subreddits.

I've read plenty of garbage on Reddit, but what percentage of Reddit content since 2018 do you think you've seen? How many zeros after that decimal point?

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by alex1138 » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

edm0nd wrote: post #132

alex1138 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, "LGBTQ loving" just makes you sound incredibly hateful I agree with the general overall point, certain views get banned, they took down nonewnormal while allowing bots in r/coronavirus to flourish, and other examples I can think of But you... just sound like you're not valid at all, when you lead off like that

there is no way bro is mentally stable w a comment like that prob one of the Q anon and anti-vaxxer types who keeps Alex Jones websites bookmarked and only gets their news from real-patriots-of-america-news.info

Yeah but see, I don't agree with that side of things either

This idea that because a) you lean one way means you support all these other things and b) that those things are even wrong all the time

Given what's come out about (say) the covid vaccine (which isn't a real vaccine), I am an anti-vaxxer. (And someone like Kennedy isn't so much anti-vaccine as he's concerned about the lack of liability of the manufacturers, with clear historical examples of how it went wrong)

This kind of attitude (especially because many of you are technologists) is what leads to censorship on Youtube and people like Susan Wojcicki

https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html

https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig...

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by drcongo » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 6:48 PM UTC

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

Isn't this New New Digg? Or maybe New New New Digg?

Re: Digg.com is back

#144

Post by econ » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 6:49 PM UTC

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

Slashdot deserves a honorary mention under not doing what the users want.

Re: Digg.com is back

#145

Post by slowmovintarget » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:12 PM UTC

When do we get Slashdot as it used to be?

Re: Digg.com is back

#146

Post by duxup » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

slowmovintarget wrote: post #145

When do we get Slashdot as it used to be?

IMO Slashdot lost out due to being a fairly focused site and more generalist sites with little focused areas won out, and I'm not sure Slashdot's focus when it was popular would have that big an audience anyway.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by tim333 » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:15 PM UTC

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

I'm on the old style Reddit and it hasn't really changed much for years. I imagine they are wary of mucking it up after knowing what it did to Digg.

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by duxup » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:19 PM UTC

Is this an app only thing? No web option?

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by autoexec » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:21 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #108

StyloBill wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you consider reddit to be hardcore-leftist, you'll find plenty of like-minded people on 4chan.

Try saying something patriotic on reddit and see how fast you will get downvoted to hell.

There are plenty of people saying something patriotic on reddit and getting a ton of upvotes

https://old.reddit.com/r/ColoradoSprings/comments/1irxcqx/

proud_of_my_fellow_patriots_who_showed_up_today/

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7akgtw/proud_to_be_an...

https://old.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/x3rz3w/the_am...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1kmvo69/bruce_spri...

https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1j3bla0/good_luck_to...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/1maf...

https://old.reddit.com/r/greenville/comments/1lbal71/proud_t...

https://old.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/1k37ncw/proud...

Re: Digg.com is back

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Post by autoexec » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

smileybarry wrote: post #125

autoexec wrote: post #32

Digg failed because they weren't listening to what the users wanted. Reddit has been doing the same thing for a long time, and there's a large number of people looking for somewhere to migrate to. It'd be hilarious if New Digg becomes that, but I'm feeling pretty skeptical that New Digg is going to be any better. What little I've seen about New Digg talks about crypto, AI, and "Gems" you can earn which is far from a…

Gems is deceptively named but it's essentially just for posting interesting things that gets discussions or Diggs, or being early to post something. It has nothing to do with crypto etc. Source: I've been using the app since the alpha started.

What are Gems good for? Bragging rights? If you earn enough of them do they grant you special privileges? Can you spend them on anything? Can you buy them with real money? Are gems their current/future monetization strategy? They're already charging $5 for usernames (https://www.androidpolice.com/digg-returning-wants-you-to-pa...)