Typ­i­cally, I try not to pick favorites. How­ever, the Digg re-design broke every­thing about the site that I liked, namely, the com­mon user sub­mit­ting con­tent. With Digg v4, the front page is now full of stuff that I don’t care about. It basi­cally became a RSS aggre­ga­tor for the most pop­u­lar web­sites. I recently decided to ven­ture into Red­dit land, and boy was I surprised.

1. 1They do nice thingsJust look at this! Or this!
2. 2Bet­ter dis­cus­sionBesides being funny, com­ments are often insightful.
3. 3Anyone’s sub­mis­sions have a chanceUnlike Digg, I actu­ally have a chance to make the FP.
4. 4Admins are hands-onI see admins par­tic­i­pate often on Reddit.
5. 5Digg is killing user-generated sub­mis­sionsRSS feed sub­mis­sions are spam­ming Digg to hell.
6. 6Abil­ity to eas­ily hide top­icsIf you hate pol­i­tics, you can hide that Reddit.
7. 7There are Red­dits I care aboutA TF2 Red­dit! Awe­some!
8. 8They change up the logoCheck these bad boys out!
9. 9Fewer adsAdver­tise­ments aren’t being shoved down my throat.
10. 10It’s usu­ally there firstThe next pop­u­lar thing usu­ally shows up on Reddit.

If you can’t tell, I am now an ex Digg user and new Red­dit convert.