Wow. Thanks for such a great writeup. Let us know if we ever start letting you down, we’ll do our best to keep your back button working properly ;-)

You know, I did the exact same thing. Slashdot was my poison of choice up untill about November of last year. I really enjoyed digg for a long time, but reddit is not is not tech oriented and as a result is much more flexible. They are all great sites, but reddit offers the most.

The arrows are images too, but they’re handled in CSS rather than with an tag

I ditched digg too… As soon as they started requiring a login to view certain stories. With Reddit, I don’t even hit their page when viewing an RSS feed link.

And, still a fan of Slashdot.

I am on the same pathway as you, but still stuck on digg.com right now. Frankly, I did not even know of reddit until someone on digg mention that they say the AoL search data dump. Sooner or later, I can see myself going to level 3 meaning gravitating to reddit.

You’ve said everything i’d want to say. +1

Reddit???!!!

You mean the site with the moderator-nazis? You mean the site that believes if anonymous geeks act verbally tough enough, they’ll be seen as “cool?” You mean the site built by middle-managemnet types, whose constant refrain to the periodic, “What’s wrong with Reddit” post,” is, ‘let’s throw more technology at the problem,’ instead of acting as CEOs and confronting the moderator-nazis, stripping them of their control, and soliciting other people who will actually follow “Reddiquette” rather than twist the rules that are Reddiquette as they see fit?!

Oh, isn’t Reddit the place where people use the “downmod” function as a tool of arbitrary hate - and to bury political stories with viewpoints they don’t agree with?

You mean that place?! What a joke.

Screw them all and just use diggdot.us
You get to see an overview of the redundancy of all three without having to visit any of the sites.

I joined digg early on, as a beta tester(December 2005). I really liked it, because it felt like a community, Digg Ver. 1 was simple, like Reddit is now. Nothing fancy, just links to websites. The websites IMO used to be higher in quality, meaning they were more interesting. And now with the roll out of V3 of Digg, it has just lost all of its appeal to me. There is just too much going on for me. I prefer quality links and no hoops to jump through. I choo choo choose reddit.

re: digg comments
“but the same old same old gets a little old over time.”

er, last time I checked slashdot you’d be guaranteed someone would make the hilarious ‘in soviet russia…’ joke at least once a day.

diggdot.us

who cares

Apparently you care enough to leave a comment…

I find that Digg is very slow. All I get is the top bar most of the time, forcing me to visit other sites while I wait for the rest of the page to load.

diggdot.us does not have content from reddit you morons. It is a combination of /., digg and del.icio.us. You junior high school retards, at least take the trouble to understand why the site is named as such.

Very good round-up of the issues that make or break a great link-log. I will chime in on digg being too restrictive and somehow just ‘narrow’, Reddit is like a cookie jar with continuously changing content in all its wonderful diversity, but I also find that the voting is a lot more harsh and comments sometimes more blunt than say, joel.reddit.com which seems to attract a slightly kinder, more supportive audience - but maybe that’s just my own impression.

“It’s so bad, one could get reddit confused with their RSS reader, which actually is not a bad thing at all.”
give a try to : http://feeds.reddit.com

I second that, stay away from digg. They almost force you to register and then when you register, they limit the characters you can use in your password to alphanumeric ones suggesting that they may store it in cleartext in their database!

Have you tried digdot.us? They aggregate Slashdot, Digg and Del.ico.us without all of the cruft and the need to flick between sites all of the time.

Wow! I’ve travelled in the same direction as you. Started with slashdot, happy with digg and in love with reddit. :)

diggdot.us does include Reddit, you just have to create an account there in order to add it to the main page (login as halil/halil if you want to try it out)

I am on the same path as you. Have to admit that I rarely read the comments on Digg (stopped after a while; just useless) or Reddit though.

I recently started using popurls.com as well. It lists the top stories for those and other sites including the top or most viewed Flickr images and Google and YouTube videos.

Love is a strange thing, yes?

to all the reddit haters. suck my left dick.

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