Digg to Be Reborn on August 1

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Digg is dead. Long live Digg!! In the spirit of the Walking Dead, Digg is digging itself out of a premature grave and waking up from the dirt nap on August 1st. Betaworks, the new owners of Digg have decided to launch a redesigned version of the news app.

Digg is worth protecting, said the Betaworks boys. “We acquired Digg because we all need a product to help find, read, and understand what the Internet is talking about right now,” they said.
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I think their biggest problem was keeping away all of the commercial spammers and they did a horrid job of dealing with them. That or they were intentionally allowing them, either way it turned off a ton of users. They're going to have a hell of a time competing with reddit.
 
Digg is worth protecting, said the Betaworks boys. “We acquired Digg because it was cheap and we think we can get it to print enough money to make back our 500k and a few extra dollars to justify bothering,” they said.
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Fixed that for them.
 
Digg is worth protecting, said the Betaworks boys. “We acquired Digg because we all need a product to help find, read, and understand what the Internet is talking about right now,” they said.
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There already is a site for that. ;p
 
These days, it seems to be about “start-ups”, “take-downs” and a new one called “hold-backs”. If I think about testing for hold-backs, I first have to find out what they are aiming to accomplish. I have just now looked at Digg. They seem to have the same sort of thing as HardOCP, except with a wider range of subjects, most with considerably few comments. As predicted, the subjects that have the highest comments are ones under “World News” about “US gun control”, “Batman” and ”Muslims”. There are not many comments under “Technology” except one about the “new Digg relaunch”.

Most of these sites seem to depend on generating masses of comments. Comments generate more comments, but not all of them do. It is in fact more accurate to say that certain types of comments generate other certain types of comments. All you have to do is figure out which does which and put them in the right place. Myself, I know how it works, but I don’t have time to explain how it basically boils down to each individual’s neurological stimulation requirements.

A practical example of how to manipulate human neurological stimulation is to play the audience like a yo-yo on a rollercoaster ride until they have had enough. Then put their feet on firm ground to allow for recovery. Then repeat.
 
Digg angered many users with the 4.0 rollout and blatant pandering to "premium" news providers by giving them a secret API, most of which ended up being corporate spam. They have a loooooong uphill climb on the PR front if they want to recover and try to compete with reddit.
 
CaptNumbNutz said:
The internet is fickle and already has moved on to the next big thing.
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Yes, people like to try different rides. People also like to do their regular thing, for part of their time. Digg has a “Technology” section. If you like to do technology regularly, then you might be inclined to spend more time on sites which specialise more in that niche, to find the required stimuli.
 
InorganicMatter said:
Digg angered many users with the 4.0 rollout and blatant pandering to "premium" news providers by giving them a secret API, most of which ended up being corporate spam. They have a loooooong uphill climb on the PR front if they want to recover and try to compete with reddit.
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Do you think that the users were angry, and therefore decided to turn against Digg with the intention of taking it down? Or, do you think that the users found it increasingly difficult to find what they wanted at Digg and easier to find it somewhere else?
 
DW-UK said:
Do you think that the users were angry, and therefore decided to turn against Digg with the intention of taking it down? Or, do you think that the users found it increasingly difficult to find what they wanted at Digg and easier to find it somewhere else?
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The former. A large portion of Digg's user base was radically anti-corporate. There was a huge outburst of anger at the fact that Digg simultaneously gave auto-submit functionality to favored big publishers, and removed the bury feature so that no one could get those stories off the front page. It was perceived as blatant pandering to big money publishers and was a slap in the face of their user base.
 
the-one1 said:
Sooo.....when's MySpace coming back too?
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they actually tried that a while back... didn't work :D



as far as digg... kevin rose really fucked up when he re-did the website in 2010
and thats when everyone jumped ship

i enjoyed digg , a lot, up until that point
it was really sad to see it crumble
 
they need be clear with concept about evolution, on internet its pretty fast.
 
mustang_steve said:
Good, the ex-Diggers can start to leave Reddit...less memetics and more content.
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Haha...not a chance in hell. Just change up your default subs if you want different content, dumping atheism and advice animals dramatically changes the site.
 
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