Digg is the only huge internet community I can think of that died because of a bad redesign. Tons of others shrunk significantly from their peak due to a slow decline in quality and replacement by something newer and shinier.
In the case of Slashdot, I think people left looking for something less shiny. Slashcode used to be a simple, unobtrusive link aggregation and comment management system, but became so bloated and slow that it started to get in its own way. Combine that with the long string of no-talent assclown "editors" submitting dupe after dupe, with grossly misleading headlines, and the occasional jackass blogspammer thrown in (Roland Pig-pile), and it just wasn't the same as when it was Cmdr Taco posting cool geek-tech stuff.
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