Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)

Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by dmazin on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:54AM (#36210820)

I seem to recall that, years ago, this article's photo[1] of Digg engineers sitting together for the v4 launch used to get posted every now and then. Usually, the idea was to shock people about how awful open offices were. Only today did I learn that this was a photo of an unusual event, and not how people usually sat at Digg.

Or maybe I'm thinking of a different photo?

[1] https://lethain.com/static/blog/heroes/digg-v4.jpg

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Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) by sfrench on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:28PM (#36215253)

That is the room where all of the eng team worked, but certainly not how it looked on a normal day. If you look, you can spot three clusters of 4 desks around the edges of the room in this picture. There were ~10 clusters of similar size that scattered around a large open space.

The worst part about that room was not the open feeling, but rather the silver walls and ceiling

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