Digg VS Boreal

Digg

Digg delivers the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Web right now.

Boreal

A Hacker News iOS app

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2023-05-08

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2020-06-16

Digg videos

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Category Popularity

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Social Networks

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Social Networks

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News

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News

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RSS Reader

100 100%

RSS Reader

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Hacker News UI

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Hacker News UI

100% 100

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Digg and Boreal

Digg Reviews

8 Best Facebook Alternatives With Focus On Privacy For 2018

If you primarily use social networks for getting your daily dose of news, you have tons of options at your disposal. Digg, Flipboard, Feedly, Google News, Apple News, etc., are great options. Digg stands out among them due to its interesting curation process. From various media outlets, it provides the most important stories and videos. It’s a thumbs-up-based website and you...

Source: fossbytes.com

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Digg seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 74 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Digg mentions (74)

The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so
They are referring to digg who set up most AMA. Source: 12 months ago
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators
Or is it a success because Reddit Inc has shown its hand of not giving a shit about your average user and this site will bleed users as they, especially power users who actually post and moderate and build the communities in the first place flee to places where their countless hours of unpaid labor are appreciated (like lemmy, kbin, mastodon), and good old reddit becomes a ghost town like digg which is apparently... Source: about 1 year ago
What did the Reddit blackouts actually accomplish?
It's the great unraveling. Communities are torn asunder. It's could very well be the first step of Reddits fall. Or reddit will just look and feel very different afterwards. A husk of an aggregator. Go to digg.com right now to see what reddit might be. Source: about 1 year ago
What's Your Take on Reddit's Plan to Sell Your Posts and Comments as "Data Licensing" to Other Companies to Train AI Language Models?
Reddit owes much of its success to the digg.com exodus, it would be fitting for its demise to be caused by a similar exodus. Source: about 1 year ago
Donald Trump’s Indictment Helps Boost MSNBC To Primetime Weekly Ratings Win Over Fox News
I went over to see what digg.com was up to these days. Their comment section is comprised of reddit comments. Brutal. Source: about 1 year ago

Boreal mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Boreal yet. Tracking of Boreal recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Digg and Boreal, you can also consider the following products

Reddit - Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Get a constantly updating feed of breaking news, fun stories, pics, memes, and videos just for you.

HackerWeb - A simple and readable Hacker News app

Google News - Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

HackerScroll - Read top articles from HackerNews in a clean, simple and minimal interface without ads or any other distractions.

Flipboard - Your Personal Magazine. Find, follow and flip stories that change your world.

HNwatcher - Track keywords and users on Hacker News