{"id":109294,"date":"2026-08-26T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=9d040c282799198a339045744f269583"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:12:39","slug":"digg-v4-and-lessons-not-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=109294","title":{"rendered":"Digg v4 and lessons not learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2026\/08\/26\/digg-v4-and-lessons-not-learned\/\">adafruit industries blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: \"All this has happened before, and all of this will happen again\"<\/div><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32.png 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32-300x283.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32-150x141.png 150w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32.png 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32-300x283.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-32-150x141.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Digg basically became a front page for Reddit as it circled the drain<\/p>\n<p>Digg was a high flying news aggregation site from the early web 2.0 era that still exists today, but really in name only. It serves as a cautionary too for why high profile websites tend not to make major changes overnight. A major update, Digg v4, introduced August 25, 2010, caused the site to implode over the course of about 6 weeks during the late summer of 2010. Contemporary tech CEOs would do well to read up on it lest they repeat history.<\/p>\n<p>Digg went from concept to being worth $200 million in about three years and was more popular than Reddit, which is now a $15 billion company. One ill fated change wiped out 90% of its value and its user base in a matter of six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask someone to define Digg in six words or less, here&rsquo;s what they would likely say: The thing we used before Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Reddit claims to be the front page of the Internet. Arguably, during Digg&rsquo;s heyday, Yahoo was still the front page of the Internet, but Digg was the heir apparent.<\/p>\n<p>See more on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dfarq.homeip.net\/digg-v4-and-lessons-not-learned\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=digg-v4-and-lessons-not-learned\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Silicon Underground<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg basically became a front page for Reddit as it circled the drain<br \/>\nDigg was a high flying news a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=109294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}