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It is actually 40% bigger than Reddit. http://i.imgur.com/jiHka.png

This was posted yesterday by KeyserSosa ( http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_main... )

Reddit has 40% more traffic than Digg, you mean.

Yes, sorry. I wasn't thinking clear this morning.

So first of all, I see alexa as pretty suspect. I have some doubts about this overall, although I would not be surprised if digg traffic had steadily declined over the last 3 years (testament to the not-so-amazing bizdev team there). But mostly I'd guess Kevin misspoke.

And it is noticeable in the constant decrease in quality of both submissions and comments. Just compare the scribb.ly discussion here to the one on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d8ph4/building_...

Granted, one can circumvent a lot of nonsense on reddit by carefully selecting and managing subreddit subscriptions but in the end I find myself unsubscribing from more and more reddits over time.