The death of Digg.

[Cry Havoc]

Since Digg Version 4 was released, the site has been hemorrhaging users. I have never seen a top 100 site die as quickly as Digg is right now.

They took every single unique, fun, and interesting quality the site had and scrapped it to be basically an advertising medium for other huge sites. The site has gradually, then quickly moved from a huge volume of unique user created content to only sites like Engadget, cnn.com, or mashable.com making the front page.

What Kevin Rose, the owner of Digg, failed to realize is that internet users don't need Digg, and they aren't going to revisit a site that makes them struggle through thousands of ads just to see a few funny GIFs.

Digg might not even be around a year from now if they don't change things. I myself have switched over to Reddit, something I NEVER thought I would do.

It's pretty amazing though, like watching a huge building implode, to see Digg quickly dissolve because of incompetence and arrogance of the owner. He had a site that was amazing, not perfect but definitely worth visiting once a day, and now it's destroyed.

[Venti Quattro]

i don't use digg anymore too

[balli]

I don't use digg anymore. I used to keep a digg thing on my homepage, but it got lamer and lamer and then I got rid of my homepage. Besides they just got busted for being more or less a conspiratorial arm of the tea bagger crowd.

[Sense]

I used to visit it all the time, but over time it got lamer and lamer until I just forgot about it.

[Nathan Explosion]

Wonder if the cost of hosting all the user generated content caused them to add all the ads?

I heard of Digg but never used it, so I wouldn't know what the site was all about before or after.

[Cry Havoc]

Wonder if the cost of hosting all the user generated content caused them to add all the ads?

I heard of Digg but never used it, so I wouldn't know what the site was all about before or after.

It's an aggregation web site. Someone submits a document to Digg, be it a funny picture of a kangaroo, a news story, or the latest youtube meme. Other users see the submission and if they like it, they can "digg" it up, or bury it downward. Buried/ignored submissions disappear from the site, and those that are dugg highly enough can make the front page of digg so that everyone who visits the site will likely see that story until it gets moved back to former pages.

The cool thing about digg is (was) that anyone could submit a story and it would get hundreds of thousands of hits within a few days of making the front page. It was basically a one-stop website for anything that's really awesome, funny, crazy, ridiculous on the net. You could also comment on the story and learn cool facts or chat to people who submitted said story, and then each comment in turn can be dugg up or down to show support or opposition. It's a nice way of filtering out the funnier/better comments in an article, as opposed to Fark where you have to wade through every stupid quip someone gives.

Digg has been ad-driven for a long time, so my beef isn't about that. It's about the fact that the unique content that made digg so worthwhile to visit has become little else than more advertising space. Before you could see things from 15 different unheard of websites on the front page. Now it's all fake content that's really advertising, only displayed to look like the old Digg.

I'm fine with ads, and with Digg making money. Just don't tell me that 15 of my friends have dugg up the latest article about how cool the new Ford F-150's unibody frame makes it the toughest truck on the road.