[andrewroycarter]

It's actually kind of interesting you bring this up! I used to use Digg like crazy back in the day, and then about 2 or 3 months before Digg 4 (it was 4, not 3, right?) I jumped ship to reddit. Reddit seemed to have much better content, much better conversations, and was more relevant to my technical interests. Digg had started that way, but soon became hype stories / drama / memes / cat pictures. After having used reddit for about 1.5 years, I discovered hacker news. After reading hn for a bit, it started to become obvious that reddit was starting to feel like Digg did before I left. Nothing but memes / complaining / cat pictures / look at what my (girlfriend / kid / cat did) / lol science is cool kind of stuff. I image that over time the same thing will happen here, and is probably happening right now. Enjoy it while it lasts I suppose!