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How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

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How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

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    This seems like a good overview of what happened https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/digg-v4

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      I knew about the migration but this line on that article is super ironic

      Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian posted on his personal blog an open letter to Rose[17], where he speculated that “this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling”, and that it is "cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg

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        Yeah the parallels are pretty hilarious

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      Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house

      Was this in the 1920s?

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      Thanks. Power to the people.

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