The Rebooted version From Digg’s news aggreator entered testing, offering users a first look at what this would be a Reddit competitor, built for the AI era, has a store.
At its height in 2008, Digg’s website was estimated at $ 175 millionBut it was divided and sold for parts a decade later. In March, Digg’s original founder, Kevin Rose and Reddit, co -founder Alexis Ohanian, joined to bring the brand back and reinvent the site for a new generation of Internet users.
The Founders think that the Internet is flooded by bots and AI agents, which will create a demand for online communities such as Digg, which feed real human links. They have said they are also looking to use technology Establish possession, such as zero-knowing evidence, along with other tools that could check if someone is human before they can post and join conversations.
On Friday, Digg launched its iOS program to testers, which are part of its land community of early adopters. The app, which is in alpha testing, gives a first look at the direction that Rebootis Digg is headed.
The app itself has a clean design, with a navigation bar at the bottom to move between the various parts of the service such as the domestic nutrition, search, boards and user -propage page.
Similar to Reddit, Digg offers a selection of foods that allow you to view the content of the site in a different way. There are foods to view the most popular content of the site (most DUGG), the latest, trendy and content that is “heating.” These filters can be used through all Digg or just your own nutrition that is based on the communities you follow.
Unlike Reddit, there are only a handful of communities to join for the time, including those focused on interests such as art, entertainment, sports, finance, food, music, science, and technology, as well as those for questions (loving), track news or chatting about Digg himself. (The company says the ability to create communities roll in subsequent trials.)
As users share posts to these various communities, others can raise or lower them, keep posts and leave comments.
Under posts, Digg uses AI to summarize the content of the article. This news summary trend has been popularized in other programs like Artept, who sold Yahooand modern news readers like Item. However, AI-based news summaries can be hit or missThat is why some publishers took care of them on their own sites.
Digg has not yet added any other AI -resource tools, such as the ability to explain the story from both sides or in a simpler format, as “explain it as I am 5 years old”, as these earlier AI news programs did.
Trying to differentiate their buttons from Upvote and Downvote from Reddit, Digg uses icons that seek to look like hands. This design still needs work. As some pointed out, it is unclear, which icon aims to be the upvote or downward; The icons could be read in both ways.
The app also features user profiles with BIOS, statistics, posts and achievements. For example, users can win “gems” with the first to dig a poster, which then tends through the platform. The sooner you will discover and dig up these posts, the more gems you win.
There are also guide boards in the mobile app, which emphasize the best daily posts, comments and gems, although Digg says it responds to the feedback of users and has called gamphic elements on the desktop.
More importantly, Digg has learned from his past mistakes and makes its new boards linked-this is that they refresh every 24 hours.
In the previous version of Digg during site 2.0 ERA, Digg’s leaders became dominated by some individuals, who then exceeded influence on what tended. Users organized to promote or bury pages massively, and some have even started Load to get stories to the home page.
While the rebooted Digg may want to avoid these types of problems, including board members in the app altogether can send the wrong message.
Although the new app is in good shape – especially considering that it is alpha – what it still doesn’t prove is why anyone would let Reddit use Digg instead. This push may come in time, as Digg allows users to create their own communities and set them as they please.
Rosa suggested during a recent AMA that Digg would like to turn to AI to help in community project further along the way.
“We see a world where you eventually have a conversation with a built -in LLM in Digg and say, hey, I want my community to appear like this … I want to be this widget here, or this should be structured,” he explained.
