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This is an unfair and incorrect assessment. It's all situational and contextual. Reddit was pretty much seen as a copycat failure that sold to a large corp because they couldn't figure themselves out. It was only after Digg messed up on their own they enjoyed their run.

Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious.

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> Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious.

It got a HUGE boost when the announcement of Delicious' sunsetting came out.

I remember the announcement and the huge exodus from delicious to pinboard. That's when I heard of pinboard first. The import feature was under heavy load and from what I remember it took a week(or couple of days? ) to import your bookmarks from delicious or was it from an exported file...

Here's the blog entry Maciej wrote about the exodus:

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/

My favourite line comes from the tweet storm (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-...):

> "there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money"

> Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious.

I used both products from the early days of each and this is entirely false. Whether or not Delicious continued down the social bookmarking path in it's original incarnation doesn't mean they weren't competing.

I only completely switched from Delicious after their awful 'redesign' and still having an outstanding need for a cloud-based bookmarking service when Pinboard came around. Same with Digg/Reddit. I used both but ditched Digg when they did the misguided v3 relaunch, like everyone else.

> Reddit was pretty much seen as a copycat failure

[by whom ?] as they say over in en.wikipedia ...

Don't know the numbers, but Reddit always sported a more "in" crowd, who looked down on the Digg unwashed.

as an early reddit user, i saw it as "slashdot, but with a better comment engine". digg had more of the feel of a generic news aggregator, not really focused on the slashdot crowd at all; i checked it out briefly but was never really engaged by it.

  slashdot, but with a better comment engine

... but worse moderation. While rose-tinted glasses may be involved and /. never was Metafilter, if I had to design a community policing system today, Slashdot would be where I would start. Hot grids and all.

Presumably you meant "Hot grits"? Those and other things, like Natalie Portman, really take me back.

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