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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was Digg Power user. It's clear to me that even Digg ... - Reddit
Jul 14, 2012 · Digg employees knew about most of the plugins, but there were a few that they were not aware of. Many power users did it for money, many did it for traffic to their own site - but it was a symbiotic relationship - they got a LOT of great content, just because it was so competitive, so it really added to the community, even if 1 in 10 of their ...
The Great Reddit vs. Digg War Has Begun! : r/comics
Apr 9, 2009 · 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.
What exactly led to the downfall of Digg? : r/AskReddit
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.