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eks  ·  4516 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Digg sold for $500,000 but its not quite bad news
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand Digg v4 greatly increased the downward spiral of reddit...




mk  ·  4516 days ago  ·  link  ·  
IMO it wasn't just that influx of users, but the new treatment that the tech press started to give Reddit that opened it up to a more general audience.

More cynically, it may also have been media puppet accounts that were chasing the eyeballs from Digg to Reddit.

ecib  ·  4516 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I wish I could argue this wasn't true. Let's just say that after the V4 rollout I became intimately acquainted with the art of pruning subreddits...