The Original Site
Justin Van Slembrouck, Digg designer, : "Digg tried to do too much. The site was sliced and diced in so many ways."
Karen McGrane, CEO of Bond Art + Science: "I disagree. The old Digg made it really easy to filter by category. You could, for example, find all the popular funny images in the past 24 hours. I used it all the time."
Van Slembrouck: "The emphasis on Digg numbers led to too much gaming of the system. People artificially pumped up numbers to drive traffic to their site."
McGrane: "The value of the old Digg was that it was a participatory experience. For some people, being able to vote on content was important."