What exactly is 'Digg' and what happened to it? : r/OutOfTheLoop
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
WELCOME TO THE SUBREDDIT PROTECTORATE OF /R/DIGG
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.
ELI5 "The Great Digg Migration". : r/explainlikeimfive - Reddit
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.
r/comics on Reddit: After too long a wait, the Reddit vs. Digg war ...
Jan 6, 2012 · 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.
What is Digg like now? Did they fix the things that sent users
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.
BTDigg, The First ‘Trackerless’ Torrent Search Engine
Feb 24, 2011 · This will all get shut down, as awesome as that sub-reddit is. The Something Awful Forums used to have sub-forums dedicated to torrents sharing everything under the sun porn, warez, mp3s, videos. This was all stopped years ag
What is the Digg Exodus and how was the Community Manager
Digg 4.0 changed from a user based submit system where 'Powerusers' controlled content, to where companies auto submitted blog spam and reached the front page. It wouldn't have been so egregious except Digg 4.0 gave auto submitted blog spam a huge advantage over the average, or even power user.
What the hell has happened to Digg? : r/digg - Reddit
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.
Anyone knows what happened to BTDigg? : r/torrents - Reddit
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What exactly happened to Digg and caused mass exodus to Reddit?
Jun 14, 2015 · Digg fucked up in big ways, from making huge irreversible changes to the UI, to changing the nature of front page content overnight (less stuff people liked, more spam). People didn't leave digg because of principles, they weren't taking a stand against corruption.