Digg was the old Reddit before Reddit was Reddit. Reddit still existed, but Digg was bigger and more popular. It operated in a similar fashion with upvotes/downvotes on submissions and comments but didn't have user-created categories like subreddits, only pre-defined one

Digg v4 launched on 25th August 2010 and today is ten years since Quit Digg Day. Please find some time today to pour one out for old Digg, and commemorate all that was lost with the v4 release.

2012年1月6日 · People changed, platforms evolved and devolved; Digg is a completely different place and Reddit, although looking the same, has risen to a much higher place in the internet stratosphere. The whole Digg vs. Reddit war was fun in its heyday but that battle faded into obscurity when Digg imploded from version 4 and Reddit scaled to new heights.

The old Digg was akin to Reddit - user submitted content that made it to the front page through up and down votes. Lots of comments New Digg is a site where stories are curated by the team who also select the pix and write the headlines, intro and tag line. So they didn't fix the old things, they just built a new site atop the old domain name.

Digg was primarily about discovering and sharing content. Reddit has a different culture. It is all about the comments and the community, links are often just a pretext for a discussion. On Digg you never saw people engage in smart, involved debates, take time to write entire essays, share life stories, ask for advice, or buy each other pizza.

But the video focused more on the historic digg. But when I did my investigation into modern digg as a reddit alternative I discovered no one could post article or links. It looked to me it was simple an SEO website at this point, and that was last year. The current design was a real last attempt to keep digg alive, but it appears that was gutted.

Yeah, Digg was already hemorrhaging users before the v4 re-design. It was the last straw which killed the site. I also left between the DMCA saga and the v4 re-design (seems our accounts were created within a month of each other).

2020年8月25日 · 10 years ago today, Digg v4 launched - it was unstable for weeks, features were removed, and only “power users” could get their content on the front page. It led to an “Exodus” of Digg users to Reddit, and wiped hundreds of millions of dollars off the company’s value.

The Digg down button and the "upcoming stories" tab were gone... and the site ran on some mysterious algorithm that seemed to be more about benefiting sponsors than actually letting the community pick front page stories, which all the actual users seemed to feel was the fundamental premise of Digg.

2009年4月9日 · I found digg first then reddit. I like the quickness of the reddit articles but can't stand the comments or the structure here but that may be because I was used to digg first. The organization on reddit is much better as well as the filtering. I still don't see why the artificial rivalry is necessary but I guess it's human nature.