The Digg Revolt: Users Want Reddit to Take Over?
September 1st, 2010
Last week, the popular social news site Digg overhauled its website, turning it into a hybrid social bookmarking/social networking site. It hasn’t been an easy transition. Many users despise the new look and have taken it to new lengths to protest. And it’s not just about the looks. It’s a true Digg Revolt! Check out this great timeline.
The revolters have even go so far as flooding Digg with Reddit links to drive traffic away from Digg. Why? Apparently, the way that the new Digg works allows major news sites and publishers to dominate the front page. Now that the power has shifted away from a small group of powerful contributors, many diehard users have started to abandon Digg for Reddit.
The Reddit/Digg spam links were in full force on Monday, but have quieted down since then. From what Digg says, it’s impossible for them to revert to a previous version, so I think we’ll be stuck with the new Digg for a while. To be honest, I’ve always like Reddit more than Digg anyhow. What do you guys think of the new Digg?
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![Is Reddit Bigger Than Digg? [Infographic]](http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/090310_rg_RedditVsDigg_01-150x150.jpg "Is Reddit Bigger Than Digg? [Infographic]")
Digg is toast, its history. I am willing to beleive Kevin when he says V4 is the future. It may be his future, but it is not mine. I am leaving, perhaps to Reddit.
What Digg had was unique, it was not the code, it was the users and the ability to interact with each other and to post stories, and pictures that were interesting.
Now the commercial media gets to decide what is interesting based of course on who is paying the revenue to push the content. Commercial media only has one viewpoint, the corporation is always right.
Thanks, but I’ll get my propaganda from Google News, at least they don’t humour me by pretending to care about what I’m interested in or what I think about a story.
Kevin Rose doesn’t realize what he burnt down wasn’t just his past, but it was also his future. Kevin Rose will be the two word punchline of many business school stories.
Digg version 4 the Edsel of web sites.