Surprised anyone took the revive attempt seriously frankly.
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#192The bot problem is serious right now. I've switched to only allowing accounts that have paid at least once to post for my own network. It's a hard barrier (minimum spend is $2 for my site), but it almost completely solves the bot problem. We really need some way to "verify as human" in the next coming years.
If your site creates more than $3 of value then I’ll happily setup 1000 bots a day and pay you the $2 per account every single day
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#193Related - others? Digg.com Is Back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671181 - Jan 2026 (10 comments) Digg.com relaunch public beta is live - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623390 - Jan 2026 (18 comments) Digg.com (Relaunch) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524806 - Jan 2026 (3 comments) Digg.com is back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963430 - Aug 2025 (204 comments) Digg is trying to…
Kevin Rose (original digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (a.k.a. kn0thing, original reddit founder) did an AMA recently about restarting digg (context so people don't have to click links)
If someone wants to read the AMA, it is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qhf27j/alexis_ohania...
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#194"It may be that the purpose of your existence is merely to serve as a warning to others"
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#195This is a comically short lifespan. Didn't they launch less than like 6 months ago? To just torch it and shut it down is wild and right from the jump referencing downsizing the team... I got the impression this was a fairly small team from the beginning. Not to mention it was backed by stupendously wealthy cofounders making fortunes off the web 2.0 run of original digg and reddit, yet can't seem to stomach a bumpy 2…
> Didn't they launch less than like 6 months ago?
Two months, according to The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layo...
This is particularly embarrassing since from what I recall they were all in on AI with the new website, so to shut it down so fast because of it…
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s what I’m trying to accomplish with my website(link is in my profile). Just trying to crank up the signal to noise ratio.
Nice. I like how clicking a tag also makes the word 'tag' light up.
Thanks for the kind words!
I got encouraged by another HN poster a few days ago, let me know if you have any suggestions.
I’m always open to criticism.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
The absolutely broken moderator system of Reddit made me leave it forever after being a regular user for more than a decade. The “god-king” thing simply doesn’t work.
And even if it does, the mods don't have real control to moderate communities either, so you get the worst of both worlds. I don't go to most queer reddit communities anymore because a lot of them have bots that downvote trans-positive posts, even if the community is specifically meant to be inclusive. There's nothing to couple active participation to voting weight or anything of that kind and voting is not considere…
I still haven't been able to figure out how to make an account without it being immediately shadowbanned or normalbanned. Tried again the other day, it was something in between where logged-out users could see it was banned but I couldn't.
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#198Wait, digg was back?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Subforums should elect mods democratically.
As long as sub forums can be created easily, users may pick their sub forum and thus indirectly moderator. In this setup having users elect the moderator leads to cases where small groups create their special interest group and then some trolls challenge the moderator. Their may be some oversight on the large sub forum, but not all.
Necessary for this is that subforums can't have unique names. If a bad mod can squat all the words like "computers", "programming", "coding", newcomers aren't going to know the best subforum is called "RealProgNoBadMod"