Here is your first overview of the Digg restarted

THE restart version Digg’s News Aggregator has entered tests, offering users a first overview of what this alleged competitor of Reddit, designed for the AI, has in store.

At its peak in 2008, the Digg site was evaluated at $ 175 millionBut it was divided and sold for parts a decade later. In March, the original founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, and the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, joined forces to bring the brand back and reinvent the site for a new generation of the Internet.

THE The founders think That the Internet is flooded with Robots and AI agents, which will create a request for online communities like DIGG which promote real human connections. They have said they also plan to use technology To establish property, such as evidence of zero knowledge, alongside other tools that could check if someone is human before being able to publish and join conversations.

On Friday, Digg launched its iOS application to testers who are part of its breeze community of the first adopters. The application, which is in alpha test, provides a first overview of the management that DIGG restarted is directed.

The application itself has a clean design, with a navigation bar at the bottom to move between different parts of the service such as domestic flow, search, rankings and user profile page.

Similar to Reddit, DIGG offers a selection of flows that allow you to view the content of the site in different ways. There are flows to see the most popular content on the site (most dugg), the most recent, trends and content that “heat”. These filters can be used in all DIGG or simply your own flow, which is based on the communities you follow.

Unlike Reddit, there is only one handful of communities to join for the moment, including those focused on interest such as art, entertainment, sports, finance, food, music, science and technology, as well as those to ask questions (AMA), follow the news or discuss Digg himself. (Society affirms that the ability to create communities will be deployed in subsequent tests.)

While users share publications on these different communities, others can vote or vote, record publications and leave comments.

Under the articles, DIGG takes advantage of the AI ​​to summarize the content of the article. This tendency to summarize news has been popularized in other applications such as Artifact, who sold in Yahooand modern news readers like Particle. However, Summaries of news based on AI can be affected or missedThis is why some publishers have been wary of implementing them on their own sites.

DIGG has not yet added other AI summary tools, such as the possibility of explaining the story on both sides or in a simpler format, as “explain it as I am 5”, like these information applications AI earlier.

By trying to differentiate its Upvote and Downvote of Reddit buttons, Digg uses icons that are supposed to look like hands. This design still needs work. As some have pointed out, it is not clear which icon is supposed to be the voting up or the descent vote; The icons could be read in both cases.

The application also includes user profiles with BIOS, statistics, publications and achievements. For example, users can gain “gems” by being the first to dig an article which then tends through the platform. The sooner you have to discover and dig these messages, the more jewels you earn.

There are also rankings in the mobile application that highlights the best daily publications, comments and lists of precious stones, although DIGG says that it responds to user comments and has taken up gamification elements on the desktop.

More importantly, Digg has learned from its past errors and makes its new rankings linked to time-that is to say that they update every 24 hours.

In the previous version of Digg during the web 2.0 era, DIGG rankings became dominated by some people who then had an excessive influence on the trend. Users have organized to promote or bury pages, and some have even started Load to get stories on the first page.

Although the restarted DIGG may want to avoid these types of problems, including the application rankings can send the wrong message.

Although the new application is in good shape – especially since it is an alpha – which he does not yet demonstrate, that is why someone would leave Reddit to use Digg instead. This push can happen in time, because DIGG allows users to create their own communities and personalize them to their liking.

Rose suggested during a recent AMA that Digg would like to turn to AI to help community design further on the road.

“We see a world where you finally have a conversation with an integrated LLM on Digg and say, hey, I want my community to appear like that … I want to be this widget here, or it is structured,” he explained.