On: The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era

[emacsen]

My read on Slashdot was that we need to separate out the folks who built the site from those who run it.

The original authors executed an exit strategy. They sold the site, got a bunch of money, and left to work on new things.

The various new owners (of which there have been a few) have never been ambitious about expanding Slashdot, either in technical or social scope.