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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn’t scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn’t continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.

    The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn’t keep manage the technical hurdles.










  • OK, here’s how it happened.

    I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

    I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

    Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

    6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.