wtf is going on over there

  • joebob@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    People stopped using Digg after v4 and it died. Digg sold for $500k in 2012–down from a valuation of $175M+ only a couple years prior. The buyers kept the name but changed it to a curated content aggregator without community comments, etc.

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      1 year ago

      My point is that the site still exists and people continue to use it. It didn’t die completely and even if most people bailed on Reddit it would continue to exist and have a user base