Digg's Community Cemetery | How Do We, and Digg, Fix It ?

Everyone has opinions about Digg’s communities.

So let’s skip vibes and rhetoric and go straight to the numbers.

14,487 total communities.

10,483 have zero posts.

4,744 have only one member; 4,228 of those have no posts at all.

1,352 communities have exactly two posts total; 274 of those also have only one member.

Put plainly:

Digg has over ten thousand completely silent communities.

Nearly five thousand one-person islands.

And more than thirteen hundred communities that stalled after exactly two posts, with 274 literal solo acts talking to themselves twice and leaving.

This matters.

Digg is carrying a massive amount of inert mass. Discovery tools and most importantly, the users have to swim through that inertia whenever something “random” is surfaced.

The data is shouting: Digg doesn’t need more communities.

It needs state awareness . A very clear distinction between dormant, seeded, breathing, active, and fossilized communities.

Without those distinctions, dormant communities blend in with active ones, adding friction to discovery.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

-- Data is from LiveSearchApp