What Happened To Digg? 4 Reasons Why It Ultimately Failed
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Digg failed because of poor product decisions, rising competition from other platforms, internal problems amongst its staff, and users trying to game the system for their own gain.

The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.

I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.

  • onepinksheep
    11•1 year ago

    Then you’re going to love this quote by Steve Huffman (spez) from a Q&A he did with GQ Magazine:

    I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticise Reddit is that we weren’t a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it’d be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way.

    That quote was from April 2023; it’s not even that old.

    • niktemadur
      6•1 year ago

      The lack of self-awareness should be incredible, but at this point it just seems typical.