No, they built a completely new product.
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kyonshi@piefed.social 3 days ago
You mean the digg everyone ditched for reddit when they went insane? That digg? I think some people don’t even realize that digg used to be way more popular than that very basic reddit thingy nobody used.
jungle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
kyonshi@piefed.social 3 days ago
still the same company though. why trust them not to fuck it up like they did before?
jungle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s also not the same company. More than a few years have passed, and even though Kevin Rose is involved, you can assume a few lessons were learned.
So in any case they’ll fuck it up in an entirely new way. Or, maybe, they won’t.
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kevin Rose also left Digg at some point, not sure how much of that demise is on him. He had to buy it back for this second run.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Digg was started before reddit and I think reddit took the upvote idea and went with it. When digg switch to the new layout and then to the news only crap everyone went to reddit like I hope everyone will to the fedeverse. I use to watch the Screensavers and was there when Kevin Rose came on.
nomy@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I loved the Screensavers! Those were good times, Call for Help, the Screensavers, TechTV News. It was a very transitional time between Cable TV and the Internet becoming connected in everyones homes. Probably very influential on me career-wise and I’m glad to have experienced it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
IMO it’s inevitable now that they’ve made it harder for users to customize their experience (API debacle). The site will have to change over time, and it will gradually piss people off. Eventually old.reddit will no longer be worth the cost to maintain.