[akanster]

That WSJ article attributes Digg's fall from grace to "rivals like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc." and makes no mention of the Digg v4 redesign disaster. That was what did them in more than anything.

EDIT: The story has been updated with a new paragraph, "A series of redesigns..."

[speg]

It was going downhill long before v4 IMO.

[michaelhoffman]

Agreed, but for many (including myself), the Digg v4 fiasco was the last straw, and there was an organized exodus of users at that point.

[mcbutterbunz]

Yes it was. Remember the digg bar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_Bar

[jshen]

digg had reached a local maximum prior to v4 that wasn't sufficient for the amount of money they had raised.