Digg is gone again

https://digg.com/

52•hammerbrostime•2h ago

Comments

hammerbrostime•2h ago

Did you know it was back? They are blaming bots.

gnabgib•1h ago

Sure.. Digg.com is back (118 points, 6 months ago, 209 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963430

PaulHoule•1h ago

"This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem."

PaulHoule•1h ago

I think the [dupe] is a false alarm in the sense that they just put up a banner saying it is shut down and I think they were starting it up again back then.

dang•1h ago

Ok, unduped now. Thanks!

MildlySerious•1h ago

I am kind of peeved. I started a community there and diligently posted links to topical news, and it kind of became a reference to me. Like many others, I've put in some amount of effort.

Now it's gone, again. Without a head's up or a way to get a backup out of it, it seems like. Can't say I am a fan of that.

calmbonsai•50m ago

Cutting staff does in no way mandate a un-notified and abrupt "hard-reset".

They could at least put it in read-only mode for a short time and allow downloading of extant community content prior to a scheduled "reset day".

This smacks of flailing leadership and zero respect for their target user demographic.

snapetom•36m ago

Argh. Also quite irritated. I had 50/50 transitioned over to it despite the lower traffic because it was a calm oasis. The thing about bots is believable, though, because you could already see it happening. Dead Internet has been real for a while, and I'd love to seem Kevin and Alex do a followup on this.

ekjhgkejhgk•23m ago

You chose to put your effort into building something that someone else owns.

Next time try doing it in a way that you control it.

dang•1h ago

Related - others?

Digg.com Is Back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671181 - Jan 2026 (10 comments)

Digg.com relaunch public beta is live - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623390 - Jan 2026 (18 comments)

Digg.com (Relaunch) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46524806 - Jan 2026 (3 comments)

Digg.com is back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963430 - Aug 2025 (204 comments)

Digg is trying to come back from the dead with a reboot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812384 - April 2025 (0 comments)

bsimpson•29m ago

Kevin Rose (original digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (a.k.a. kn0thing, original reddit founder) did an AMA recently about restarting digg

(context so people don't have to click links)

ahmedfromtunis•47m ago

I liked digg v2 (I guess), when it relaunched as a sort of curator of interesting articles (and videos). For years it was my go-to place when bored and wanted something interesting to read.

I guess that in an ocean of upvote-based platforms, an island of hand-picked content was a welcome change -- at least for me.

The move (back) to a reddit-like site never made sense to me. Hopefully what comes next has real value to the users.

bink•36m ago

One of the things I always disliked about the original Digg was their threading. The slashdot like feed where the oldest comments were at the top and there was only one level of replies tended to encourage the "first" comments and harmed the quality of the discussion. I was glad to see it use a reddit-like comment thread for the new site, but it also meant there wasn't much reason to use it over reddit.

I'm a bit surprised with Alexis' involvement they didn't anticipate the bot problem. Alexis left reddit several years ago but I'm sure he's still in touch with the folks who run the place. It would've been worth it to talk to them about the threats they currently face and how they deal with them.

BoredPositron•21m ago

It was 4chan lite...

NuclearPM•4m ago

Why didn’t it make sense to you?

armchairhacker•47m ago

> This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

Ironic, they use AI in their shutdown post that blames AI.

iamdamian•40m ago

>> This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

> Ironic, they use AI in their shutdown post that blames AI.

This… seems like regular prose to me. What makes you say so confidently it was written by AI?

armchairhacker•33m ago

There are more tells. Rule of three, short cliche sentences.

> We know how frustrating this is, and we hope you'll give us another look once we have something to show, we’ll save your usernames!

I think it's partly human. But ex:

> Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall.

isn't a natural sentence.

troosevelt•27m ago

How is that not a natural sentence? I think people are reading into stuff. That's just good writing.

Could it be generated? Sure. But there aren't the obvious tells you act like there are.

GeorgeWBasic•5m ago

"Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall." is a VERY ChatGPT way to write. It's not proof, but the parent is right that this smells a bit of AI writing.

ngokevin•30m ago

"This is not...this is" is a tell

troosevelt•29m ago

There isn't any "this is" in that sentence.

netsharc•19m ago

I think you're someone who really needs to be concerned about AI being more intelligent than you...

troosevelt•16m ago

Is this necessary?

For the record, I'm correct that what he stated is there is not there, your quip not withstanding.

iamdamian•17m ago

I think we'll have to disagree on that. Humans write that way, too, and they've written that way for far longer than AI.

(Where do you think AI picked up its writing habits from?)

ivm•38m ago

There strategy did not make any sense: only a few pre-approved broad-and-shallow forums about everything instead of trying to attract niche communities from Reddit or even FB Groups.

snapetom•12m ago

They introduced user-created communities a few months ago. They had problems with squatting and splintering, which might have played a role in their annoucement.

popalchemist•37m ago

OH NO. Anyway...

dgeiser13•28m ago

Didn't Kevin Rose re-acquire Digg in the last year or so?

troosevelt•26m ago

Yes, he did. Now he's gonna be the full-time CEO according to this.

andrewinardeer•24m ago

Whatever happened to MrBabyMan?

mmmlinux•15m ago

That was fast.

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