The site started to go downhill around that period because of power users and some started to move to reddit, but it was still pretty niche.

I stayed on digg until v4, then I moved with the masses over to reddit. They lost over 30% of their users that month!

The main migration was actually in 2010 after the v4 redesign. Digg wasn’t dying in 2007-2009, it was one of the hottest websites on the internet.

I’ve found that I have to wait up to 30 seconds for a community to show up in the search. At first it says there are no results, but every community I’ve searched for has eventually appeared after waiting.

I think this happens if I’m the first user from my instance to use the community. The more popular communities show up straight away.