They had a site redesign to garner more monetization.
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stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 5 months agoI forgot about Digg. Whatever happened to it?
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
They also had power users who dominated post and drove the control of conversation. (MrBabyMan?)
Wrench@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.
Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They forced a UI change that everyone hated, so everyone fled to reddit, thus crowning Steve Huffman, a dirty little piss boy.