Digg shuts down after January relaunch, pledges to rebuild

Launched in 2004, Digg let users submit links and vote them up or down, becoming a quick way to find interesting content and, for a time, a major hub. Many websites even carried a "submit to Digg" button to boost visibility. Competition—chiefly from Reddit, which went live a year later—and an inability to adapt hollowed the site out.

After a 2012 sale to Betaworks it relaunched as "a startup" and more or less disappeared: it continued to function but users largely stopped submitting and attention drifted away. In 2025 founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian bought and relaunched Digg, promising moderation through a mix of humans and AI.

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