It Restarted version De Digg’s News Agg
At its height in 2008, Digg’s site was valued at $ 175 millionBut it was divided and sold in parts a decade later. In March, Digg’s original founder, Kevin Rose, and Reddit’s co -founder Alexis Ohanian joined to return to the brand and reinvent the site for a new generation of Internet users.
It The founders think Internet floods from Bots and Agents of the AI, which will create demand for online communities such as Digg that promote real human connections. They have done it said they also seek to use technology To establish property, such as tests of zero knowledge, along with other tools that could verify if anyone is human before they are able to publish and join conversations.
Digg launched iOS to testers on Friday who are part of their community of major adopters. The application, found in alpha tests, provides a first look at the direction heading to Digg.
The application itself has a clean design, with a navigation bar at the bottom to move between the different parts of the service, such as the domestic feed, the search, the classification tables and the user profile page.
Similar to Reddit, Digg offers a selection of sources that allow you to see the contents of the place in different ways. There are feeds to see the most popular content of the site (most DUGG), the newest, the tendency and the content that is “warming”. These filters can be used in all Digg or only in your own feed, which is based on the communities you follow.
Unlike Reddit, there are only a good number of communities to unite -including those focused on interests such as art, entertainment, sports, finances, food, music, science and technology, as well as those to ask questions (AMA), keep track of news or chat about DIGGS. (The company says the ability to create communities will be published in subsequent tests.)
As users share publications in these various communities, others may increase or reduce them, save publications and leave comments.
Below publications, Digg is taking advantage of the IA to summarize the content of the article. This news summary trend has become popular in other applications such as Artifact, that was sold to Yahooand modern news readers like readers Particles. But,, IA -based news summaries may be affected or lostThat is why some publishers have been concerned about implementing them in their own places.
Digg has not yet added any other tool of summary of the AI, as the possibility of making the story tell from the two parties or in a simpler format, such as “explain -as 5”, as these previous AI news applications have done.
To try to differentiate your UPVote and Downvote buttons from Reddit, Digg uses icons that you want to look like in your hands. This design still needs a job, however. As some have pointed out, it is unclear what icon is intended to be the flying or flying; The icons could be read in any way.
The application also includes users’ profiles with bios, statistics, publications and successes. For example, users can win “GEMs” when being the first to excavate a publication that then tends to the platform. The sooner you have to discover and excavate these publications, the more jewelry.
There are also classification tables in the mobile application that highlights the publications, comments and searches for daily jewelry, although Digg says that it responds to the feedback of users and that it has marked the desktop gamification elements.
More important, Digg has learned from its past mistakes and is making its new classification tables linked to the time, that is, they refresh every 24 hours.
In the previous version of Digg During Web 2.0, Digg’s classification tables were dominated by certain people who later had a widespread influence on what they tend. Users organized to promote or bury the pages in mass, and some even started Loading to get stories on the homepage.
While Digg’s restart may avoid this type of problems, including application classification tables, they can send the wrong message.
Although the new application is in good shape, especially considering that it is an alpha, what is not yet shown is why someone would leave Reddit use Digg. This push can come on time, as DIGG allows users to create their own communities and customize them to their taste.
Rose suggested that Digg would like to resort to AI to help the community design below.
“We see a world where you finally have a conversation with a LLM integrated in Digg and say, right, I want my community to show like this … I want to be this Widget here or that is structured,” he said.
