First screenshot of the new Digg

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First screenshot of the new Digg

Kevin Rose shared this corner of a screenshot of the interface for the new Digg. Lots of connection to the original Digg from back in the day, including a leaderboard. They're doing things to make the leaderboard less exclusive than before, so the default view will be 24 hours instead of all-time.

They're focusing on transparency and making it easy to see why you're being shown the things you're being shown.

Gem Finders isn't explained yet, but I'm guessing it's something like people who unearth the best stories.

They're not using followers as a metric because it's gamed too easily by bots and such, trying to focus instead on quality of interactions.

In his voiceover, Kevin said he wants to use AI in a way that's helpful for discovery, but "we don't want to use AI to make things too sterile. Not something that takes over and makes it just seem like an algorithm feeding you more of what you already know."