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Reddit's burn rate was probably 2% of Digg's. That allowed them to not be as focused on short-term profit.

I'm not so sure. Digg was pretty much already dead when that deal went through.

Not how I remember it at all. At that time Digg was quite a bit larger than Reddit. Then later Digg decided to really push the revenue generation, and users fled to the obvious free alternative.

2006 - You're totally right. My mistake.

It's always tragic when the profit motive gets in the way of making good products that people want to use. Like in the case of Apple and the way it has made it impossible for them to make great products. Oh wait.