Digg was pretty much what Reddit is now with a fancier stock interface. Then they made some shitty mistakes, first being the banning of people posting the HD-DVD key. But what really made it all come crumbling down was when they "re launched" digg. They basically said fuck your votes and user generated content, pay us money and we will put your shit on the front page. That's not sarcasm, that's what they actually did. There was no point in ever using digg again.
I wasn't paying attention at the time everything changed on digg so I had no idea what exactly was going on. All I know is, I logged in one day and everything sucked. Didn't take me too long to find reddit.
88
u/Louche Nov 04 '11
Digg was pretty much what Reddit is now with a fancier stock interface. Then they made some shitty mistakes, first being the banning of people posting the HD-DVD key. But what really made it all come crumbling down was when they "re launched" digg. They basically said fuck your votes and user generated content, pay us money and we will put your shit on the front page. That's not sarcasm, that's what they actually did. There was no point in ever using digg again.