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Digg is Dead

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13 pointsjackelin29 comments

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.

Nietzsche may have done it first.

Unfortunately, Nietzsche is dead.

Nietzsche's influence remains substantial. :)

"X is dead" is dead

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.

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

Long live [insert name of company]!

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

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

[insert name of company] is not dead yet.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Online communities are nothing like the still vibrant IRL communities. The best of both worlds is when they intersect.

It's been like that for a long time.

It was always like that.

What's with all the one-liners?

It's the diggification of Hacker News.

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.

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

therefore every growing community is doomed to die?

I'd say it's more that the smaller the community, the greater the chance that the community as a whole can agree on what constitutes signal and what constitutes noise.

No, it's that Digg was designed in a way that couldn't scale. There was no method available to keep it going with a larger community. The growing communities that aren't ready to grow - they're the ones doomed to die.

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...

Tumblr killed the story

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

No.

i go to digg when i need hand relief

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