"Digg tries to reverse the spin of the Earth in hopes of undoing damage."

A lot of a social media site's success is doing the right thing at the right time.

They did the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it might not be possible for them to find a new right thing or time.

It was a primarily a case of "if it ain't broke...don't take a hammer and start smashing".

They had some nifty ideas (like Twitter-style following of a user's submitted links), which they probably could've implemented gradually and unobtrusively, taking the time to gather feedback and perfect each one. Instead, it seemed like they had a very brief beta, then parachuted in the entire broken, incomplete thing as a wholesale replacement.

It's still plainly broken. The front page is absurd: 4000+ "votes" on the sponsored link, less than 100 on the real links. Fewer than 10 comments on most of them indicates a community that hasn't just declined, it's died out entirely.

I bet Digg wishes it had that power.

I always thought Superman was flying faster than the speed of light to go back in time and save Lois. Turns out he really was reversing the rotation of the Earth to rewind events. I like my version of the movie better.

Who's to say he didn't do that in an alternate timeline as a failed experiment?

It's like a Choose Your Own Adventure for movies. :)

Except flying at the speed of light would have put him in the future, and not back in time.

faster than the speed of light is undefined behavior.

Edit: In the video he orbits the earth faster than light could make the trip. Then again his blur trail is way to big etc so IMO just take it as artistic license / bad science fiction.

I recently tried to delete my Digg account and couldn’t find a way to delete my account. How can webapps these days not have the ability to delete an account? Unless Digg just wants to maintain its inflated numbers of how many users they have.

Why delete your account? Why not just stop using it? I don't understand this.

I haven't been using it for over an year and want to delete all traces of activity as well as my email from their databse (so they dont ever email me saying that they have released Digg version 13.0) and also if their site ever gets hacked, I'd rather not have any of my information in there.

One of the homepage stories is an ad, and another points to a virus with 94 "diggs" and a couple comments lamenting the lack of a way to flag the submission. I remain unimpressed. If they just reverted to whatever the site looked like a few years ago, that'd be better than what they have today.

"A ‘Top of All Stories’ story on Digg would have previously brought in 80-100k uniques whereas of late we’re seeing between 5-10k on average."

Ouch.

I liked Digg a lot back in the day. I've checked in a few times in the last year and found nothing new or fixed to recommend it and a great deal to not. Thanks guys, good luck, but I'm not planning on coming back until my friends start telling me I should.

Digg will cease to exist a year from now. Possibly six months.

Digg lost their favicon.ico after the update. Just checked again. It looks like they still haven't been able to get it back.

http://digg.com/favicon.ico

From the source: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://cdn1.diggstatic.com/img/favicon.a015f25c.ico>;

Not sure what browser you're using that doesn't recognize that. Ancient versions of IE don't support it, I think.

Also it has correct quoting, HN seems to choke on that.

Are they even relevant any more? I thought reddit has eaten up their lunch by now. I used to use digg fairly regularly but gave up and now reddit serves up what I need.

Internets are very brutal, Kevin.

yeah I gave up on digg, and moved over to reddit. And so have most of my friend.

It's like switching pubs after the last one has mistreated your mates.

And now Reddit has become a cesspool of DERP.

After four years I have gradually stopped using Reddit because wading through all the moronic meme chanting and pun threads simply isn't worth it anymore. And so have most of my friends.

Let's hope this place doesn't fill up with cat pictures and 'BREAKING' anytime soon.

Perhaps Digg fixing itself may return some of that Derp back where it came from. I haven't stopped using reddit though, as there are still some great mini communities that are the subreddits.

Going to be honest though, I am an ex-digg user, current reddit user, and just recently started checking out HN on a regular basis for the content and insight I feel has left reddit. Please don't hate me! :)

The good thing about reddit is that it allows you to have exactly as much seriousness as you want from it. Look into subscribing to some of the smaller and more focused subreddits instead: I'm subscribed to /r/compsci, /r/math, /r/PhilosophyOfScience and /r/electronicmusic. You're going to not find pun or meme threads in any of them.