I'm still not convinced that they did. Yes, they managed to steal a bunch of users from Digg.<p>Many people have complained that Digg used to be a tech-oriented site, and now it's general news. They went to Reddit for the tech-oriented news again. Now those same new people are moving to Reddit... As long as Reddit prefers numbers over loyalty, they're getting what they want.<p>I guess those people will come to Hacker News now. I did.