It came back, died, and now it's back as some kind of weird AI-focused news aggregator.

That’s my thoughts exactly, had to click the home page to double check!

It seems to be basically a Twitter mirror with extra cruft?

This version is peak ai slop garbage trying to game the Google algorithm

Ahah, it used to be as much a time sink as HN

digg goes along with slashdot and freshmeat memories. good 'ol mems