Tea Restive version The Digg news aggregator entered the test, offering users a first look at what this aspiring Reddit competitor, built for the IA AI, has in store.
At his height in 2008, the Digg site was Evaluated at $ 175 millionBut he was divided and sold by part a decade later. In March, the original Founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, and Reddit’s co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, joined the brand and reinvent the site for a new generation of internet users.
Tea The founders think That internet is flooded with robots and agents, who will create the demand for online community as Digg who favor real human connections. They They also tried to use technology To establish the property, such as the proods with zero knowledge, together with other tools that could verify that someone is human before they can publish and join the conversations.
On Friday, Digg launched his tester app that are part of his Early Adopters Groupbrium community. The app, which is in the Alpha tests, causes a first glance to the direction in which the rebooded digg has been directed.
The app itself has a clean design with a boiling navigation bar to move between the different parts of the service such as home feed, research, rankings and user profile page.
Similar to Reddit, Digg offers a selection of feeds that allow you to view the contents of the site in different ways. There are feeds to see the most popular content of the site (most digg), the newest, the trend and the content that “is heating up”. These filters can be used throughout digg or only to your feed, which is based on the communities you follow.
Unlike Reddit, there are only a handful of community to join for the moment, they included those focused on interests such as, entertainment, sports, finance, food, music, sciences and technology, as well as those for asking questions (love), monitoring news or chatting on Digg himself. (The company states that the ability to create communities will implement in the following tests.)
As users share posts in these various communities, others can vote or vote, save the posts and leave comments.
Under the posts, Digg is taking advantage of artificial intelligence to summarize the content of the article. This news tendency of the news has been made popular in other apps such as Artificat, That sold to Yahooand readers of modern news such as Party. However, Summary of news based on artificial intelligence can be affected or missingwhich is that some publishers have been wary of implementing them on their sites.
Digg has not yet added any other tool for the summary of artificial intelligence, such as the ability to make the story explain on both sides or in a simpler format, such as “explain it as I’m 5”, as these previous news on artificial intelligence had done.
In an attempt to differentiate his voting buttons and downvote from Reddit, Digg is using icons that have the purpose of resembling the hands. This design still needs work, though. As some pointed out, it is not clear which icon is designed to be the vote or vote down; The icons could be read in both ways.
The app also features user profiles with bios, statistics, posts and results. For example, users can read “gems” being the first to dig a post that some trends on the platform. First you have to discover and dig these posts, multiple gems earnings.
There are also rankings in the mobile app that highlights the best newspaper posts, comments and buds of gems, although Digg says he is responding to user feedback and has the elements of Gamification on the desktop again.
Even more important, Digg has learned from his meals and is making his new leaders, that is, they update every 24 hours.
In the previous version of Digg during the Era of Web 2.0, the Digg charts were dominated by some people who had influenced the head of head on what they are tend to. Users organized to promote or bury the mass and seeds have even started Charge to get stories on the front page.
While the Digg restarted may want to have these types of problems, including rankings in the app, he could send the wrong message.
Although the new app is in good shape, especially considering that it is an Alfa – what is not yet contrammad is that anyone of everything leaves Reddit to use Digg instead. This thrust can arrive in time, since Digg allows users to create their communities and customize them as they like.
Rose suggested during a recent AMA that Digg would like to turn to the AI to help in the design of the community further on along the way.
“Let’s see a world in which in the end you have a conversation with an incorporated LLM on Digg and let’s say: Hey, I want my community in this way … I want to be this widget here, or this being structured,” he explains.
