4.24.2009

Digg vs Reddit

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Topic Digg Reddit Winner
Page Look Digg is very friendly on the eyes, it's pretty and easy to navigate through. All around creating a great experience by the end user. Reddit doesn't feature nearly as many colors, and still offers a broad spectrum of navigation. However, to the untrained eye it has the potential to look like an HTML mess.
Digg
Categories Digg has quite a few categories, and certainly any topic in the world could be sorted into one. However, users may find that they have the potential to be a little too generic at times. Reddit has all of the same categories that Digg does, but it also allows you to include user created categories. This type of addition allows users to be able to narrow down a group of news that they'd be incredibly interested in.
Reddit
Content Digg has a fairly up to date content system, and front page stories are almost always current. Occasionally Digg's users will push a very old article to the front page, causing much frustration for us seasoned internet users. Digg has also started to interview celebrities with questions that get upvoted by the users, something not many of us are used to. Reddit always has current events on their front page, and will hardly have old repeats. The content on Reddit is so fresh, that I usually find Digg has it's stories on their front page the very next day, with the title's copied word for word (creating a very negative image for Digg). The submitions seem to come from diverse sources as well, whereas Digg's articles all seem to come from the same and somewhat questionable sources.
Reddit
Users Digg has a userbase that can be funny sometimes, but more often they seem cocky and rude. I say this because they seem to find any reason to bury you're comments or articles, and once they start it won't stop. I remember posting a joke, and they all took it seriously. These people seriously took the liberty to tell me how wrong and disgusting I was, while I laughed at how stupid their attitude was. I guess part of the problem is that because the site is so colorful and friendly looking, people flock to it in the masses just like myspace. Keep in mind that Myspace is rivals with Facebook (a far more intelligent social network). With that mass comes great stupidity, and hostility towards us educated folk. Too often I click solely on Reddit's comment links, I do this because I find the users not only funny but useful as well. Reddit includes a section called self, where one user can ask the entire site their opinion. I came by a user who posted a question about our judicial system. After 1 or 2 replies funny replies, someone actually had made a post that included further research links, as well as a brief explanation.
Reddit

Politics


I bring up politics because I feel that a site should try very hard to take the most neutral path, and allow everyone's voice to be heard.
During the heat of elections all I heard from this site was "OBAMA OBAMA!", not that I'm against him, not that I'm for him. It just seemed a little fishy to me that the only articles ever making it to the front page were either bashing other parties, or praising Obama's. During elections we still had the occasional "OBAMA OBAMA!", however, it wasn't that way 24/7 365 like on Digg... I actually found it relieving that Reddit's articles were questioning his policies and pointing out those of other candidates, while not drowning out the voices of others with senseless gibberish.
Reddit
Upgrades Digg is constantly changing their site and working to provide the newest features for their followers. I tend to use the mobile version of their site quite frequently. Since the creator of the site (Kevin Rose) is a huge techie himself, I'll bet he's the one thats driving them all onward. However, I'm not too fond of the new Diggbar it's rather horrible. Reddit, well... They haven't really changed too much because they haven't really needed to and users have grown rather fond of the simplicity. They also have a mobile version of their site, but they tend to keep their updates very hush hush. Also, I'm almost 100% certain you won't see a Redditbar ever annoying you there.
Digg

-Based on the progression of ideas, despite how shitty the Diggbar is.

Fanboys


you know about these well if you've spent time in forums.

Thousands and Thousands, all congesting the comment space with their arguements in one back and forth never ending tug o'war.


I've never seen so many people gloat about apple products in my life, the same applies to microsoft or pc's, but really I have never heard sooo many people willing to talk on and on about why their Apple products are supreme.

One or Two here and there. However, for the most part they would rather spend their time debating over a current event article, rather than their loyalty.


This silent subgroup is part of what makes Reddit nice, people know when to shut the hell up and respect others.


 

Reddit
Front Page Digg has a sidebar displaying the top stories of the day, and while this is a nice feature. You will find a consistency among certain users postings getting to the front page and being the top stories of the day, despite being dupes of other stories. As a user, this is frustrating when you submit a story before this "superuser", and yet they still make the front page. You feel ripped off, and many of digg's users have noticed and complained about this with very little being done. Reddit's front page may look very bland, as mentioned in the Page look category. However, much of the content is fresh and diverse. It would probably be nice to be able to have the top stories directly on the front page, but it Isn't too much of a hassle to click directly on the "top" button to access them. I believe Reddit's admins like's to keep the site looking clean, while they do this well it's almost too clean, almost.
Reddit

Choice Winner:


Reddit

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