Here’s the list of highlights from the article, as it’s a good TL;DR:
- The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
- How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
- Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Why disabled users joined the Reddit blackout
- Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted
- A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
You’re leaving out that Digg had been hemorrhaging users to Reddit for years due to better features and therefore better content. Diggv4 was just the final nail
i think “hemorrhaging” is a strong term. the majority of people who used reddit (I had been on reddit pretty much since the beginning) used both sites. before the Digg v4 migration, reddit had been around for, oh, 3-4 years and had been growing slowly. as the rumors grew for a couple of months about the changes planned for v4, there was a sudden surge in new users on reddit, too, but it wasn’t until the launch that the deluge really began.
You are wrong. Before Digg v4, it was a far better interface with better content than Reddit. Reddit was at best a marginal player and far smaller than Digg. I hated Reddit at the time and only begrudgingly switched because of what Rose did.