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Comment by marcamillion | Hacker News Reader

As an original Digg user, i.e. pre the HD-DVD crack code debacle, I don't think Twitter was the cause of the demise.

It was HN, for me.

At first, I went to digg for the wonderful tech/startup stories that would surface - then it evolved into meaningless crap.

I languished for a little, with no where to go, then found HN. People complain about how HN is getting so bad, but it's nothing as bad as when Digg started to get diluted by mainstream interests.

The truth is that Digg definitely had to cater to a broader audience to sustain growth, and I have always been a Rose fan, but it's kinda sad to see it go by the wayside like this.

At least Kevin tried something with v4, but it was too little too late.

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For many people it seems Reddit's the post-Digg destination. Certainly Reddit has been growing by leaps and bounds and trying to keep up.

I know...it seems that they might be the antithesis, but Reddit just never struck a cord for me.

I like Reddit. It feels like a community, unlike Digg.

As far as I'm concerned it's been going downhill fast since Digg collapsed though.

I stopped visiting the main reddit page a few years ago and stuck to proggit since then, but that also seems to have suffered a lot recently.

Does anyone know if the ex-proggit folks just moved somewhere else?

/r/netsec remains a great community. /r/coding is low-traffic, but aggressively moderated and has good content/people. /r/web_design is a lot like a slightly more informal version of Hacker News. /r/webdev is very small, but hey, it might pick up.

Then there are lots of specific communities you can sign up for depending on your religious beliefs that have various values... /r/emacs /r/vim /r/haskell etc. most of the language specific subreddits have decent traffic.

Actually if you believe the reports of what Reddit says their traffic is greater than digg's traffic.

Ditto from me. I just got fed up with top x lists which seem to dominate the front page. I'm much happier on HN. I can't believe how fast these guys fell over such a short period of time. It's like they started asking people to pay money to view their content, rather than some pointless v4 upgrade.

Agreed, although I took the slightly longer Digg->Reddit->HN path.

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