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How the Digg team was acquihired

187 点作者 stuartmemo超过 5 年前

13 条评论

sys_64738超过 5 年前
Digg is a classic example of a webpage getting a working model right, totally by accident. This happens quite a lot in that they cobble something together and it got trajectory. Their downfall is thinking they actually knew what they were doing and therein lies their problem. They had no clue and they changed it causing the whole thing to crater.<p>The moral here is don&#x27;t change anything. Ever.
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processing超过 5 年前
As I remember pre the redesign of the Digg front page, it was controlled by &quot;Diggers&quot; who were being paid by blogs and brands for the traffic (Digg.com could deliver 100k&gt;1m+ visitors a post with the right content angles). The redesign was to take back control of the homepage results and be able to charge brands for the exposure. Once the users realised they had little sway in getting a post to the front page they left.
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badfrog超过 5 年前
What&#x27;s the benefit for an average software engineer in going along with the acquihire rather than looking for a completely new job?
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aantix超过 5 年前
&gt;Because acquihires are “star” oriented, if you’re a senior<p>&gt;leaders who doesn’t explicitly refuse to move forward,<p>&gt;pressure will converge on you from all sides: investors, the<p>&gt;team wanting to return to stable employment, and the non-<p>&gt;participating leadership team who all want you to commit so<p>&gt;they can move on to new things for themselves.<p>That&#x27;s not pressure, that&#x27;s leverage. Demand a better deal and let them know you&#x27;re prepared to walk and sink the ship.
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ProAm超过 5 年前
It&#x27;s funny because Im now back to checking out DIgg daily. I find it much more enjoyable than Reddit these days.
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franciscop超过 5 年前
I&#x27;m curious about this &quot;everyone must sign&quot; contract mentioned. Since employment is not mandatory, what is stopping the author or anyone from signing and then walking away after 1 day working there?
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mtmail超过 5 年前
&gt; our starting point was far less: 200 DAU.<p>Digg currently, or recently, was down to 200 daily active users? I knew they lost a lot of users but that sounds like they lost everybody.
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echelon超过 5 年前
Does anyone see the same fate happening to Reddit? Or are they too big and too entrenched at this point?
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toohotatopic超过 5 年前
What&#x27;s the leverage the old company has over its engineers when negotiating an acquihire? Why does the new company not approach the lead engineer and the selected employees directly?
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caseyf7超过 5 年前
Digg was losing so much money and required so much infrastructure to run at the end. I wonder if the team at the time could’ve done a complete restart. I think it required a new team without the history and loyalty to old decisions to move forward. Betaworks was able to right the ship, but it was too late, the world had moved on.
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mattbillenstein超过 5 年前
Thanks for writing these stories up - great examples of how the earlier days were the wild west - we were all code cowboys, and it all lead to spectacular failures at times.
stazz1超过 5 年前
Can you even submit to Digg anymore? The basic functionality is broken and it&#x27;s unclear why the site is floundering? Are you serious?
redis_mlc超过 5 年前
I&#x27;d like to know more about why a failing news site had 2 data scientists on the payroll.
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