RethinkDigg.com

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Post by samkottler » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

RethinkDigg.com
rethinkdigg.com

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#2

Post by blu3jack » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

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

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by phene » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

Abandon the brand and never speak of it again.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

#4

Post by pavel_lishin » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

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

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by Zarathust » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

Am I the only one without a smartphone? I'm still using some old, beaten up Samsung crap which allows me to talk and sms a little. I spend my whole life in front of a computer, I am still always connected.

Clearly, they are taking the "mobile" approach, it just doesn't suit me very well

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by jrlevine » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:01 PM UTC

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.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by jedberg » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:03 PM UTC

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.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by jrlevine » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by smacktoward » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:04 PM UTC

blu3jack wrote: post #2

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

Yeah, that was my first thought too.

The second thought was that ground-up rewrites are almost never a good idea to begin with. You end up throwing out whatever's good about the old property along with all the bad, and risk turning off the members of whatever user base you have left (who presumably stuck around because they saw something they liked in the old version).

I suppose the population of Digg users is probably small enough at this point that the new proprietors aren't worried too much about whether they stay or go, though...

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by jonny_eh » Fri, Jul 20, 2012, 5:05 PM UTC

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.

I filled out the first survey then stopped at page two. I'm too lazy to fill in all those boxes. I hope they didn't lose all that "valuable" info they got from me on page 1.