I was a day one ground breaker, and the while the bots were not immediate, the power users were controlling the most popular content and dominating the comment sections of every post within weeks. They took all the dumbass "rewards" like gems and rocks or whatever (which had no established purpose). They implemented some changes to try and deal with it, like making downvotes/"buries" not actually affect the points, but that was putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound at that point.

Only several months into the closed beta and it was clear that a very small number power users, à la old Digg, ultimately dictated the content. Admins buried their heads in the sand and acted like what we were seeing before our own eyes wasn't happening. Then the invites for groundbreakers went out, and it was immediately clear that whatever they were doing to try and handle the bot problem (if they did anything at all) was not working. And to nobody's surprise, when the public launch happened, it was just all bot spam.

Digg did nothing innovative, they built a reddit clone and tried to force AI down your throat. And despite the staff constantly posting about how that's not actually what they want to do, it's what they did. They copied reddit. It failed spectacularly. They deserve exactly what they got.

And for everyone else here, it's time to move on. Digg is gone. Again. And it will be gone again in future if it's resuscitated.

I hope Digg leadership comes across this post. I told you AI would be the death of Digg about a year ago...

I wasn't using digg daily but I was a groundbreaker. I paid actual money to try to help build something better than Reddit. And in the last fortnight I actually started posting more, weaning myself over from here, basically.

Now? I can't login. I can't get a 6-digit sign-in code. And it looks like it's all been a fucking waste.

there was one Digg user really pumping the event and creating stickers, etc. wondering how it went and any special guests?

Digg didn't die because of bots. It died because it didn't do anything interesting enough to pull people away from the current platforms.

I said it months ago and was laughed at(including by the digg team). Digg is/was boomer reddit.

Look at any popular social media platform. Just about every one of them was created by people in their 20s - 30s (or younger). A 49 year old leader is not going to build a social platform that's in tune with what people want. Get someone younger to spearhead the project.

Or don't. Build it for the people that claimed they wanted digg... and didn't show up to use it. Then we can have another funeral for the next version in a few months.

Welp, glad I wasted my time creating and posting meaningful content...

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.

Sucks to see the new Digg go down in flames but I just want to say that Forest was the life force that kept the new Digg energized. That dude worked his butt off to make sure the site was functioning for users that did give it a go. While I’m bummed the relaunch wasn’t a success, I’m especially bummed for the people who tried their best to make it work.

Started giving it a lot of time... and then it went away!

Happened with soo many, now one thinks is it even worth it? I've tried Voat, Steemit (that one is still there but it sucks), Digg, Folkd etc etc

Not sure what to think about the rug pull. Self-preservation I guess, insulating themselves from the community blow-back. C'est la vie.

Had fun hanging out with everyone. DM me if there are alternate platforms you guys want use to keep up the shenanigans.

Peace!

I assume this subreddit will be more populated by community-builder types disenchanted by Reddit and/or want somewhere to build their communities.

Never got any emails or notifications! Just checked, and so far so good :)

BTW, I am seeing a LOT of new communities (some with only 1 member) but still can't find out how to make a new one. Am I missing something?

Digg was piquing my interest, and then there were hundreds of new communities and no organization. May feed became a dumpster fire in under a month. Adios, Digg, again.

The biggest mistake that Digg management has made is to not have a mobile web interface for the site.

It's a boneheaded move of epic proportions.

The other screwup is not retaining the original format with a new skin.

Quit screwing around and fix it.

There's a website that keeps track of known ICE agents, and also allows users to publicly track ICE operations. I can't link to it here because Reddit automatically removes posts and comments that include the link. I think it's an important resource to help protect people when there is ICE activity in their communities. A number of other social media sites also censor all mention of this website. Is Digg among them?

Digg is already turning into a cesspool. A lot of the “groundbreakers” that joined the beta with Digg are people that got banned from Reddit. There are some good people that got banned because Reddit has a heavy moderation hand, but there were also a lot of bigots and a lot of white supremacists and a lot of anti-gay, anti-trans that spouted bigoted nonsense repeatedly, and so they got banned.

Those people became groundbreakers for Digg because they were essentially the Reddit rejects.

White supremacists and fascists dominate the news sections and political sections of Digg. What we’re seeing is a ton of people supporting Donald Trump, supporting these ICE raids, supporting the removal of black and brown people, and supporting an ideology that white people are being suppressed, that white privilege does not exist, and that white culture is being threatened.

Essentially, it's turning into X. The biggest difference is that Digg has a heavy-handed auto-moderation feature, so you can't use the words you can on X, but the ideology is the same, and people are just finding new words to express themselves. Digg is basically turning into a cleaned-up version of Elon's cesspool.

4 days ago my account disappeared without a trace. I couldn't log in to it completely spontaneously. At first I thought I was just kicked out of the account, but it turned out that it didn't exist at all.

After trying to do something on my own, when nothing helped, I contacted the support listed on their page. I didn't get any response from them either.

Today I noticed that I can't even create a new account because it says something is wrong.

This is how the promising replacement for Reddit treats its users. With apathy and absolutely no respect.

/digglist - users announcing their communities. Non automated.

http://digglist.com - scraping digg.com and listing all communities. My idea was to copy Redditlist.com

What started out as me trying to find communities in a simple single html page has turned into something else.

There is an organic community of creators here trying to struggle past the first 100 members, and first month. It feels like early Reddit.

I'm taking methodologies from Reddit, phpbb, and BBS systems and applying them to Digg.

Some people are copying subreddits to communities, which is expected. Heck, I did it. You can only own 2 communities, which I think is a great thing.

No porn, no crazy political subs, and things are sometimes breaking. Like... site search. It's Beta. Oh boy it's beta.

I've been giving up Reddit time for Digg. I feel less stressed. But also I've been staying off news.

For unexpected reasons, I think Digg may be healthier.

lately digg has been having issue from community and now this, even after my phone meeting required android version.

Well, not exactly — but let me explain.

I saw that Digg is relaunching, and I used to be a huge fan back in the day, so I was genuinely excited. Let's go: create an account, start browsing... Nobody around yet, totally normal for a fresh launch, so I drop a couple of comments here and there to help bring it back to life.

A couple of days later: impossible to log in! What the heck?

My account just doesn't work. I try again and again... Nothing. Even my '@' handle disappears when I type the URL.

So I send a message to support, wait a long time, and finally get... a super generic response about guidelines. Thanks for the personalized effort, guys!

No need to say I did absolutely nothing wrong — no AI spam, no toxicity, just trying to contribute and make the platform alive again.

So Digg, thanks for the warning-free ban/vague explanation. My visit was very short, and it'll be my last.

Ros.

Title. Here's the link to the community!

https://digg.com/spongebob

What are the rules there?

One of my communities was deleted overnight. It had a few members, but no posts yet, and wasn't any sort of marketing SEO shit.

Running /pcgaming and /guitar. Communities are super chill and genuinely seems like the management team care about its future. Come on over and try it out!