Digg Redesign: Traffic Down 26% in US

[noaccount]

The launch of Digg's redesign will likely go down in the history of social media as a textbook example for how to alienate your users. Over the last few weeks we have chronicled the demise of the Digg community in great detail, but thanks to the latest data from Hitwise, we now have some hard facts about the current state of Digg. At its peak, Digg had over 40 million unique visitors every month. Since the launch of the redesign, Digg's traffic has been in free fall, though. Traffic from visitors in the U.S. has declined 26% since the redesign went live.

Traffic from visitors in the U.K. (arguably a smaller market for Digg) declined by 34%.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_redesign_tanks_traffic_down_26.php

Looks like numbers above are wrong, maybe it's better to delete thread?

Update 2: I just got an update from Hitwise. Reddit saw 2.6% growth in the U.K. according to Hitwise. For the U.S., Hitwise saw a 15% increase in visits to the site.

[Ande]

Aha! A foot shooting! Sadly not as rare as it used to be.