I knew about the migration but this line on that article is super ironic

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian posted on his personal blog an open letter to Rose[17], where he speculated that “this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling”, and that it is "cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg

Thanks. Power to the people.

Rose invested $6,000 into the site that was meant to be a down payment on a house

Was this in the 1920s?