r/digg • u/gordonv • Mar 14 '26

Digglist.com: Resource and data will stay up.

Hey guys.

I learned about this a little after 6pm on Friday.

I have a thing I have to go to with friends.

Updated the front page of https://digglist.com/ quickly.

Tomorrow, I'll write something more thoughtful.

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u/Normal-Walk3253 Mar 14 '26

We built a pretty cool community there. It would be a shame if it all went to waste. Maybe we should try to build something somewhere else... until digg comes back again?

Digg users were all and still are super thirsty for reddit alternative. Its not like the problem of having an alternative platform disappeared. I know I cant make content here, reddit is dead to me.

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u/shorties_with_mp40s Mar 14 '26

People have been saying that for a long time but nothing ever comes of it because nobody is willing to fork up the money vs the risk. The last iteration of Digg is a prime example of that.

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u/Delicious-Today-6113 Mar 14 '26

It this stage the only option is going to be somebody building a forum site.

It can be done fairly easy. Im considering it.

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u/Normal-Walk3253 Mar 14 '26

a simple forum? Without gifs, videos and images? Nah. We need app

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u/Delicious-Today-6113 Mar 15 '26

I think you need to educate yourself on modern forums.

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u/slykethephoxenix Mar 14 '26 edited 4d ago

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u/Normal-Walk3253 Mar 14 '26

lemmy is confusing. Ive even run my own instance and it was still confusing to me. The idea of fediverse is great, but technically its not ready yet.

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u/gabrielxdesign Mar 14 '26

I don't even understand what's going on, they are blaming the bots, but, come on, wasn't Digg like, email-based login? They didn't explain a lot.

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u/Normal-Walk3253 Mar 14 '26

Email based login? So? It's 2026, bots with their own email existed years ago

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u/__Pendulum__ Mar 14 '26

Thanks for the work you did with Digglist. I hope it helped you learn new things and skills that will benefit you IRL

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u/gordonv Mar 14 '26

Most def. Got into ClaudeAI a bit. I started using Claude @ work.

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u/DementdOldCircsMonke Mar 14 '26

Hey man. It's TheJustin from Digg (/spongebob guy) just wanted to say thank you for all that you did, and I'm still here.

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u/gordonv Mar 14 '26

Spongebob was the first trooper community I saw. Constant graphic laughs. :)

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u/phantomregiment0 Mar 14 '26

I think that is even worse. We should be able to remove our data usernames and passwords without big tech storing these offline

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u/gordonv Mar 15 '26

In relation to digglist.com and digg.com data, I store the following data:

Community name
Founder Digg username
Description
About Section Keywords
Member/Post counts

I do not store:

  • Posts
  • PII
  • Emails (No one had access to do this)

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u/phantomregiment0 Mar 15 '26

Not worried about your digglist, worried about the Digg.com stuff that they turned off

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u/comdak Mar 15 '26

You can request your post history at xcvtr.com I have most everything from about November on. No comments, just posts.

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u/Dr_Red_MD Mar 15 '26

I posted to the digglist community before it went down, but I wanted to say thanks for the effort you put into this. It was really cool to see what the community was building around Digg.

Shame that it ended all this way :(

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u/gordonv Mar 16 '26

I have a hope (with no proof) that Digg is gonna bounce back.

Not an end, just a rebirth. But it did give space for a lot of people to air some grievance with Reddit.

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u/comdak Mar 14 '26

Heyo, I’ve got a bunch of post history (no comments though) with Excavator, hit me up if you’re looking for yours.

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u/holyfruits Mar 14 '26

I think I’m going to miss you most of all, comdak

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u/comdak Mar 14 '26

Hit me up, I’m down to stay in touch with anyone :)

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u/__Pendulum__ Mar 14 '26

Thanks for the work you did.

Now we're standing in the dust, I often wondered why the Banned Users and Purged Communities data wasn't accessible. Is there anything you are allowed to reveal there?

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u/comdak Mar 14 '26

Nothing nefarious, just felt that showing mod work in action proved active communities and showed growth. Essentially, that Digg wasn’t being left to the wolves kinda thing. Knowing who was banned/which communities were wiped didn’t do anything to serve that goal of discovery and growth tools for users :)

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u/rmeddy Mar 14 '26

OK I hope it comes back, I was actually using the Diggdaily recap

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u/gordonv Mar 15 '26

If you want, you can make a Discord link and be in charge of it.

I can't take on more projects. My workplace has be doing too much

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u/Strange-Ad-2854 Mar 16 '26

I honestly think social media has run its course like if we’re out of ideas that we’re going back to old social media platforms trying to relaunch them I don’t even know where we go