The again launched version of Aggregor News Digg introduced tests, offering users the first look at what the potential Reddit competitor, built for the AI era.
At the summit in 2008, the Digg website was valued at $ 175 million, but was divided and sold for parts ten years later. In March, the original founder of Digg, Kevin Rose and co -founder Reddit Alexis Ohanian to restore the brand back and discover the new generation website of internet users.
The founders believe that the Internet is flooded with AI bots and agents, which will cause the demand for online communities, such as Digg, which support real human connections. They said that they were also looking for the use of technology to establish ownership, such as evidence of zero knowledge, along with other tools that could check if someone is a human before they could publish and join the conversations.
On Friday, Digg has launched an iOS application for testers who are part of the Groundbreakers community of early adoption. The application, which is in the ALFA testing, provides the first look at the direction in which Digg is guided.
The application itself has a clean construction, with a navigation belt at the bottom to move between different parts of the service, such as a home channel, search, score boards and user profile page.
Like Reddit, Digg offers a selection of channels that allow you to display the content of the site in different ways. There are channels to see the most popular content of the site (most DugG), the latest, popular and “heating” content. These filters can be used throughout Digg, or simply your own channel, which is based on the communities you follow.
Unlike Reddit, there are only a few communities for now, including those that focus on interests such as art, entertainment, sport, food, music, science and technology, as well as those that ask questions (AMA), tracking messages or conversations about Digg itself. (The company claims that the possibility of creating a community will introduce in later tests).
Because users provide posts with these different communities, others can keep them or implement them, save posts and leave comments.
Under posts, Digg uses artificial intelligence to summarize the content of the article. This trend summarizing messages has been popularized in other applications, such as the artifact, which is sold Yahoo and contemporary information readers such as a molecule. However, Summary messages based on artificial intelligence can be hit or missedThat is why some publishers warn their implementation on their sites.
Digg has not yet added any other tools to summarize artificial intelligence, such as the ability to explain the story on both sides or in a simpler format, for example “explain how I have 5”, just like these previous AI News applications.
Trying to distinguish your UPVOT and Downvote buttons from Reddit, Digg uses icons that are supposed to resemble hands shovels. This project still requires work. As some noticed, it is not clear which icon is to be an investigator or down; Icons can be read both ways.
The application also has the profiles of users with BIOS, statistics, posts and achievements. For example, users can get “jewels”, being the first to dig a post, which then trains on the platform. The sooner you have to discover and dig these posts, the more gems you earn.
The mobile application also contains leaders' boards that emphasize the best daily posts, comments and gems, although Digg claims that it responds to user reviews and withdraws the elements of gamification on the computer.
More importantly, Digg learned from past mistakes and introduces new score boards in time-it means refreshing every 24 hours.
In the previous version of Digg in the Web 2.0 era, Digg leaders' boards became dominated by some people who then had an impact on what they trained. Users organized for mass promotion or burying pages, and some even began to download stories on the first page.
While the re -run Digg may want to avoid these types of problems, including leaders' boards in the application, they can send the wrong message.
Although the new application is in good shape – especially considering that it is alpha – what does not show yet is why anyone could leave Reddit to use digg instead. This pushing can occur on time because Digg allows users to create their own communities and adapt them to their preferences.
Rose suggested during the last AMA that Digg would like to turn to artificial intelligence to help the community design further.
“We see a world in which you finally talk to the built-in LLM on Digg and say: hey, I want my community to appear in this way … I want to be this widge here, whether it is structured,” he explained.
