Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import
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Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import
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#2"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage."
A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time.
They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.
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#3I liked Digg a lot back in the day. I've checked in a few times in the last year and found nothing new or fixed to recommend it and a great deal to not. Thanks guys, good luck, but I'm not planning on coming back until my friends start telling me I should.
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#4"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage." A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time. They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.
I bet Digg wishes it had that power.
I always thought Superman was flying faster than the speed of light to go back in time and save Lois. Turns out he really was reversing the rotation of the Earth to rewind events. I like my version of the movie better.
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#5i loved digg. i love reddit. i'm in love with hn.
i visit hn for the startup content mixed with tech news. i stay because of the educated, insightful comments by the mature userbase who keep discussions on point and relevant. at one point in the past, i visited digg for the same reasons.. and 4 years ago, the reason why i switched to reddit. unfortunately, digg has suffered with every upgrade, and reddit has be over-saturated with pun threads, circlejerks, and meme-related image reposts.* once reddit reaches it's peak, i fear this crowd will migrate to the beloved hn. :(
*reddit still has great content, and we've done many great things, but the content quality has decreased as the userbase has increased.
i created this throwaway account because i know how harsh the hn community can be in regard to this subject
Re: Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import
#6"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage." A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time. They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.
I bet Digg wishes it had that power. I always thought Superman was flying faster than the speed of light to go back in time and save Lois. Turns out he really was reversing the rotation of the Earth to rewind events. I like my version of the movie better.
Who's to say he didn't do that in an alternate timeline as a failed experiment?
It's like a Choose Your Own Adventure for movies. :)
Re: Digg undoes more changes, discontinues RSS import
#7"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage." A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time. They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.
It was a primarily a case of "if it ain't broke...don't take a hammer and start smashing".
They had some nifty ideas (like Twitter-style following of a user's submitted links), which they probably could've implemented gradually and unobtrusively, taking the time to gather feedback and perfect each one. Instead, it seemed like they had a very brief beta, then parachuted in the entire broken, incomplete thing as a wholesale replacement.
It's still plainly broken. The front page is absurd: 4000+ "votes" on the sponsored link, less than 100 on the real links. Fewer than 10 comments on most of them indicates a community that hasn't just declined, it's died out entirely.
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#8"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage." A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time. They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.
I bet Digg wishes it had that power. I always thought Superman was flying faster than the speed of light to go back in time and save Lois. Turns out he really was reversing the rotation of the Earth to rewind events. I like my version of the movie better.
Except flying at the speed of light would have put him in the future, and not back in time.
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#9Are they even relevant any more? I thought reddit has eaten up their lunch by now. I used to use digg fairly regularly but gave up and now reddit serves up what I need.
Internets are very brutal, Kevin.
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#10Digg lost their favicon.ico after the update. Just checked again. It looks like they still haven't been able to get it back.