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Re:Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside inves... by yardie on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:51AM (#4295709)
He's been throwing his employees under the bus for over a year now. The site was written in PHP by PHP developers. Somehow that wasn't good enough so he pivoted and replaced them with C++ developers.

Anyway, I liked Digg. Then then newer users got involved and stories they didn't like got buried. The first time I used it the articles were technical and really interesting. Then it got political, stupid memes, etc. In its default state I think it was better than Reddit. Reddit is great but you have to work on it. Clean your browser cache and look at reddit like you're going their for the first time. What do you see? Crap from r/AWW, r/atheism, and r/politics take up all or most of the frontpage.

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Re:Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside inves... by TillE on Thursday July 26, 2012 @10:49AM (#4296206)
> He's been throwing his employees under the bus for over a year now.

Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2352521

It wasn't the execution that destroyed Digg, it was the ideas behind v4. It's a remarkable case study in what not to do with a popular community website, and pointing to technical mistakes is just deflection. Maybe the developers were terrible, but that still has very little to do with why Digg failed.

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Re:Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside inves... by mattdeboard on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:57AM (#4295722)
Then unsubscribe from those subreddits and subscribe to those that appeal to your interests. Manicure your own content a little bit.
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Re:Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside inves... by pkteison on Thursday July 26, 2012 @11:55AM (#4296649)
As a new user, how do you know that it's good enough to be worth logging in and investing the effort? The default front page is your initial impression, and it does not appear like it is likely to attract interesting people to talk to in its current state.
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Re:Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside inves... by drumdance on Thursday July 26, 2012 @05:47PM (#4298927)
Depends on how they got there. If they just typed in reddit.com in the location bar, you may be right. But I bet a lot of people find the site via a deep link.
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