#digg

Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. 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.

"It looks like the Digg guys are the most public about their usage of Cassandra. Arin’s presentation below is a bit less technical than the ☞ article published a while back, but also has some nice additions."

"I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."

"the only way to get more Diggs with this T-shirt is to get punched in the sternum. It figures, doesn't it?"

"This was noted in the Contra 4 DS digg, but it is just so cool everyone needs to know about it. Just use your keyboard to type the Konami Code (Up key, Up key, Down key, Down key, Left key, Right key, Left key, Right key, B, A, then Enter/Return) to expa

"because, um, Digg doesn't really have anything other than these crazy users and they live in constant fear that the party will move on to some other place."

"To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement."

"The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."

"Kevin Rose takes full advantage of the Internet’s Cult of Personality by throwing himself in the media spotlight while Joshua is more of a behind the scenes master of technology."

"HypeFighter is a cross between a user-contributed content site and a turn-based massively multiplayer online game. Basically, it's a cross between Digg and Dark Throne."

"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprietor of this system is frankly terrified by you people."

'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'

"Pfft, idiots - they could have been driving an imaginary bus to vegas for that time."

"But Digg ... is pointing the way to a new wave of socially assembled news initiatives, organized and made sense of by readers themselves."