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- Bloodwine, on 07/17/2009, -1/+20There was a time when Digg was stomping Slashdot in the tech news department, but then Digg expanded outside the tech bounds and allowed the entire spectrum of stories. Now I find myself going back to Slashdot for my tech news.
Front-page stories on Digg also used to scroll off the first page much faster. I remember being a little flustered trying to keep up with it all, but now it has slowed down quite a lot.
I don't know if Digg is losing steam or has just matured, but either way it feels different.
Signed,
Cranky old fart who fondly remembers that everything was better in the old days - KMye, on 07/17/2009, -3/+21Man, it has to suck for digg's creators, owners, and original employees to know that by attempting to make their business into a big-time profit maker, by expanding their user base, they basically ruined what made their product special. Could that be part of the reason the buzz around digg is dying down?
Nothing against them, - who wouldn't have sought the same goal? In all genuineness, good for digg's stakeholders and their plans to expand even further, and best wishes; I'm sure it will continue to become more profitable. From the user end, it's too bad, as if things continue as they have, for every one new user representative of the older ones, they'll by accompanied by six new idiots bringing down the collective iq, and three new accounts here solely to game the system, both of the latter further destroying the uniqueness and value of both the stories promoted to the front page, and the discourse below them in the comments.
Feels like the people running the show appreciate this, as evidenced partly by the removal of shouts, but seems like that was too late, and like the problems in general are probably impossible things to fix at this point.
Seems like digg may have been just like any good genre of music - incredibly special in its infancy, but mostly ruined when it became massively popular and commercialized and subject to the lowest common denominator.
But again, good for digg, and hopefully the people who initially came up with this brilliant idea and created that at-least-temporary special thing can make a buck off of it in the end and, hey, I'm still here, at least mostly, so from the business end, at least, they may know what they're doing... - wolfie1010, on 07/17/2009, -2/+13Kevin Rose is a member of NAMBLA
- damack, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10Digg.com has always been something special because it has been the domain of nerds.
I used to love coming to this website and reading up about crazy scientific pursuits and it's hilarious when a comic book movie used to come out and all you would see on this website for weeks was posts about it.
Now that Digg has become so much more commercial its really no diffferent to most other websites.
I'm all for spreading Digg but lets bring in more like minded uber nerds not everybody and their cat.
A lot of Digg users have gone to Reddit which is a superior site in some ways. Certainly with its community. - Bakedwafer, on 07/17/2009, -2/+8I like digg but fact is all this Web 2.0 is bull. They have no revenue models and their valuations models are based on pure fantasy. This is one of those times I can say....
1. Search.....
2. ???????
3. Profit! - wolfie1010, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6I dunno man. This only shows how many people run digg as a search term in google. Once you know about digg you'd just put digg.com in your browser url line or you bookmark it. It'd be more interesting to see actual traffic to both digg and facebook to see the real trends
- liquify1, on 07/17/2009, -0/+590% of diggs MOBILE traffic... read a little better
- zip000, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6Digg caters to geeks? Since when?
- GaltShrugged, on 07/17/2009, -2/+6Digg doesn't make profit. 'Nuff said.
- alphaterminus, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Sorry, I was reading it on my Iphone, and the font wasn't big enough :-/
- borez, on 07/17/2009, -2/+5I still love Digg, but I do miss the days when you used to get a better class of sarcasm within the comments sections.
/s - roostersheep, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Doesn't Google trends only monitor the popularity of a search on Google? This decline could be due to users already knowing the URL and users no longer using Google to search for Digg articles since the launch of the new search functionality. Though Digg may be going through a trough anyway, it happens. Peaks and troughs! Peaks and troughs!
- odnaryperson, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3web2.0 bubble?
- Navicerts, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3It still serves a unique purpose if it brings news stories to light that would never otherwise see the light of day. However, I do miss the old digg :(
- Bloodwine, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Arstechnica is geek-focused and is still doing just fine.
Digg hasn't catered to geeks in quite some time. - asaone, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1They have to do what the VC's tell them to do
- DrDabbles, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1There is. It's called "sensationalism". lol
- Presbyterian, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2I think you took that too personally, but it's kinda true.
Wikipedia isn't trying to make money, for one thing. - diggdatt, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1They had a niche audience but gave it up for the broad mass appeal, which has taken the quality of the site down with stupid *****.
- t0x2c, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2They made that determination by twitter searching #digg and seeing the last post about it was more than 5 minutes old.
- thegrinder, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2I totally agree. I have been on Digg for quite a while and have seen many changes happen to the site over the years. When Digg was just a Technology site it felt like a smaller community ran things and it was a lot easier to get news stories onto the front page. Since Digg has expanded to beyond just tech news it has felt like that small community is gone. What Digg needs to do is make major changes to the site to bring back that small community feel. If we had many small communities to make up the greater Digg community I think that would work a lot better. Because right now everything feels like a jumbled mess.
- DrDabbles, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1I just go to the news sources now - Engadget, Ars Technica, Phoronix, etc.
I use Digg for a few stories I might miss. - bbroveleit, on 07/17/2009, -1/+1Rather than look at Google's search query demand data, you should probably be looking at their site data.
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=digg.com&g ...
This data still suggests (as you concluded from the search query data) that Digg's popularity has ebbed over time.
Compete tells a different story than Google. This only shows the past year, but it still doesn't wash with Google's data.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/
If you look at a third opinion, Quantcast certainly doesn't depict Digg "dying."
http://www.quantcast.com/digg.com#summary
2 out of 3 of these sources suggest that Digg has started attracting more users and/or usership in the past year. Now... whether or not you think that is a GOOD thing is clearly up for debate. - Stemnin, on 07/17/2009, -3/+2Wait a minute, I'm socially networking here?
/wrists - perre, on 07/17/2009, -4/+3Rest of the article is interesting - a very decent profile of the company - but that's a lame opening. "Digg is old news." "The heat surrounding Digg.com is now a fraction of what it once was." A "fraction"? Seriously? Based on google trends and acquisition rumors? By the same standard, wikipedia is old news and in crisis. Don't get me wrong: Fun-as-***** to imagine Adelson with nerves as cool as Obama's. And I think the rest of the article is very good... Just wish there was a name for when a journalist "makes crisis" in the story's lead where none exists in the real world.
- RudeTurnip, on 07/17/2009, -2/+1A very young Marlon Brando...maybe.
- LBWayward, on 07/17/2009, -1/+0I never Google Digg. I have a widget on my home page and that's it.
- TheSnuffster, on 07/17/2009, -2/+1That suprises you?
- Inceptious, on 07/17/2009, -7/+5Digg is dying http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg
Facebook is still growing extremely rapidly http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg%2C+facebook&am ... - RudeTurnip, on 07/17/2009, -3/+1There's a few good stories on Slashdot and it was always the first site I'd visit in the day. Now, I'll check out its RSS feed on my iGoogle page and maybe check out a story now and then. Slashdot panders way too much to pedants and cynics, as well as GPL/OSS/Stalman/free everything zealots.
If you post enough on there, you'll see a link you can click on that lets you disable ads while you're logged on...totally self-destructive behavior and, again, pandering to bitter cynics. - inactive, on 07/17/2009, -3/+1Answer: Chasing the media spotlight to gain traction and keep momentum.
- bbroveleit, on 07/17/2009, -4/+0Check out this blog post of mine from June. This includes a snippet of an interview from Adelsen (CEO of Digg) talking about that very topic as well as the fate of newspapers.
http://bbroveleit.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-fat ... - alphaterminus, on 07/17/2009, -6/+190% of Digg's traffic comes from Iphones??? Really?
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -8/+2what they need to do to gain traction? stop catering to geeks
sad but true
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