Digg is Dead

http://forfraksake.com/post/43627508/digg-is-dead-you-heard-it-here-first-for-reasons

by jackelin • 18 years ago

13 29 18 years ago

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hectorhector• 18 years ago

digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's

river_styx• 18 years ago

It's been like that for a long time.

william42• 18 years ago

It was always like that.

ivankirigin2• 18 years ago

Despite my love for higher level discourse, both YouTube and Digg are doing fine without it. You don't die when the average vocal user is rude online. That's almost the definition of mainstream.

froo• 18 years ago

That's exactly right.

Look at World of Warcraft (WOW) vs most other mmog's, the language used by an average WOW user is much more coarse, yet WOW decimates other mmo's for subscription rates.

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

I think this says something significant about our "society." I think this reveals where our notion of community has gone.

antiismist• 18 years ago

Let's keep some perspective - Digg almost sold for $200,000,000 a couple days ago. Maybe they have some problems but it is still a very valuable site with lots of happy users.

geuis• 18 years ago

I stopped being a happy user a hell of a long time ago. Why do I like Hacker News? Because I have a snowball's chance in hell of people in the community reading my occasional submissions or answering questions I might pose. The last time I got a front-page story on Digg was 2005 when I posted about some dude faking a story about him giving out Ubuntu cd's at a McDonalds.

bprater3• 18 years ago

Bingo, there is something very attractive about a small community.

sktrdie2• 18 years ago

therefore every growing community is doomed to die?

sktrdie2• 18 years ago

i go to digg when i need hand relief

nir• 18 years ago

[insert name of company] is dead. You heard it first here!

bprater3• 18 years ago

Long live [insert name of company]!

qwph2• 18 years ago

Rumours of [insert name of company]'s death have been greatly exaggerated.

noonespecial• 18 years ago

[insert name of company] is not dead yet.

[insert name of company] thinks it'll go for a walk...

deathbyzen• 18 years ago

Pssh, [insert name of company] is the new [insert name of company] anyway.

staticshock• 18 years ago

I've come to understand that sensationalist headlines like this one, "X is dead", actually mean "X is no longer interesting", once you take out the sensationalism. Even pg is guilty of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

If his essay was titled, "Microsoft is no longer interesting", would anybody still read it? We all know Microsoft is no longer interesting. But if you say 'dead', you can write an essay explaining WHY something is no longer interesting and still have everyone reading. Good job.

r70002• 18 years ago

Nietzsche may have done it first.

jorgeortiz85• 18 years ago

Unfortunately, Nietzsche is dead.

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

"X is dead" is dead

jackelin• 18 years ago

Tumblr killed the story

URL - http://forfraksake.com/post/43627508/digg-is-dead

redorb• 18 years ago

200mm was fair for a site with 50mm uniques, msft currently has the text ad deal with digg, wonder if that was a major factor. i dont buy the :lack of culture line...

fallentimes• 18 years ago

No.

Digg is Dead

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