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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 samstave »

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.

I have a really healthy RES filter list that makes reddit better for me.

I browse /r/all all the time with this filter on and get good content. Reddit is hell without it. I wish though that I could ban rage comics all together.

Another thing that would make reddit better would be to allow karma growth on self posts. If you id, there would be less imagifying of text for posting to IMGUR so the karma counts.

Some times though, it helps to filter out imgur.com completely and you get a nice view...

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#102

Post by myle »

citricsquid wrote: post #69
blhack wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You look for r/TrueReddit

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#103

Post by simonbrown »

SquareWheel wrote: post #81
lazugod wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a joke, or are you unfamiliar with the many definitions of power?

It was a joke (a bad one, clearly), but it was at the definition of the word literally. The OP presumably meant figuratively.

Using a different definition of the word power doesn't make it any less literal.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#105

Post by [deleted] »

arn wrote: post #75
anewguy wrote: post #56

How much do you think it would cost to buy reddit?

Problem with buying Reddit is that you would still never really own reddit. If digg's fall has taught us anything, it's that heavily community-driven sites are owned by the community. Try to make any major/unpopular changes in direction or business, and the entire site may come crumbling down.

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Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#106

Post by dr_ »

From techcrunch: "Betaworks, says Digg, will soon unveil a new “cloud-based version of Digg” that will complement News.me’s iPhone and iPad apps" Not sure what this means, Digg was never a desktop client. It's betaworks using lingo that will grab the attention of non tech readers to suggest something interesting is going on. But it isn't. Just like with a lot of their other stuff. Bitly is a simple concept which has been done many times. News.me is nothing interesting at all, just an attempt to rip off Flipboard. Chartbeat is just another way to visualize data that's available by so many other means. Nothing original with betaworks.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by alaskamiller »

justincormack wrote: post #80
alaskamiller wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're conflating two things. Reddit doesn't often break news, Twitter does that more in real time with its immediacy and reach. Just like Hacker News is/was to TechCrunch, Reddit generates a news cycle, as in right now across the world there are cadres of journalists and bloggers using Reddit to source and/or get ideas on what to write and feed into the long tail.

No thats not the case. Reddit is not that important. But Digg is dead.

Reddit is a newer version of big board community. Have you participated in an online community?

To a segment of people, http://www.big-boards.com/, it is their life.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#108

Post by Gormo »

citricsquid wrote: post #69
blhack wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure that 'hardcore' is the right requirement for Reddit usability. It takes all of 5 minutes for a new user to register an account, then customize their subreddit subscriptions.

That said, it's the default front page that provides new users with their first Reddit experience, and sets the tone for their overall impression of the site, and when they've got r/pics, r/WTF, r/politics, and r/atheism on the default frontpage, I don't really understand what kind of userbase they're trying to build; everything on the default frontpage is either vapid image-memes or vitriolic flamewars.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

#109

Post by jmduke »

myle wrote: post #102
citricsquid wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You look for r/TrueReddit

TrueReddit's gone downhill too (though it's better than a majority of Reddit.) It's hard to sustain and moderate a healthy 128K-member community.

Re: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

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Post by andyjdavis »

citricsquid wrote: post #69
blhack wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think you're missing how efficient Reddit is at turning casual users into hardcore users. I can't put my finger on how its done but Reddit is excellent at sucking people in and getting them to come back and come back until they've become hardcore users.
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