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Digg is the homepage of the internet, featuring the best articles, videos, and original content that the web is talking about right now. Digg delivers the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Web right now. IPhone and iPad apps available. Read every story in a clean, mobile-friendly view. Introducing Digg Reader! Subscribe to your favorite blogs and publishers. Seamlessly import all of your Google Reader feeds and folders into Digg. Alongside its Reader, Digg may also introduce an iPhone app next week. As of now, we expect Digg to implement all aspects of the Googles Reader along with its own customised aggregator, so that it is easy for RSS users to port to Digg. All of Diggs Reader features will be provided to users free of cost initially, but we can expect a paid.
Lacks an official native mobile app, but the mobile version of the site is quite usable and there are apps which support syncing with The Old Reader. However, users have created many apps for a variety of platforms using The Old Reader API. You can check them out here. Digg Reader is a new feed reader that closely resembles Google Reader. There’s no Android app right now, but there is an iOS app. You won’t be able to plug Digg Reader into your favorite apps just yet, but an API is planned. Betaworks, the company behind Digg Reader, has a history of working with products that track things on the web or help you discover the most popular stories.
Digg Reader Mac App Offline
Digg is rolling out invites for their new news reader service today, and mine arrived late last night. Show files mac app. I was one of the many people who responded to Digg’s surveys, and it looks like those of us who participated are being let in first.
Digg announced plans to launch a news reader service only days after Google announced the Readerpocalypse in March, and it’s pretty clear that they started almost from scratch and did their best to incorporate the feedback from the severalsurveys they conducted over the past few months.
To put it simply, Digg Reader isn’t ready.
While Digg might claim that the service was targeted at hard-core users, this news junkie considers Digg Reader to be unusable. Linkedin mac app store. Digg’s last minute entry into the news reader niche is missing a number of key features including search, basic organization, and filtering/sorting. Mac open apps from anywhere android.
I suppose it’s not fair to bash Digg Reader for the missing search option given that few of its competition offer this feature, but I still think it’s worth noting that Digg Reader won’t let you search through the feeds you follow, have read, or have saved. This is an important feature and its absence is always worthy of a comment.
But the shortcomings in basic organization, well, that’s a different matter. Digg deserves to be bitch-slapped for the ham-handed way they have the feeds displayed in the left panel. Rather than show the folders before the unsorted feeds, Digg Reader has them interspersed, resulting in many of the frequently updated folders being pushed off the bottom of the screen by infrequently updated feeds, some of which have not had new content in years.
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Oh, and did I mention that I can’t hide the feeds and folders that don’t have new content? The lack of a basic filtering by itself renders Digg Reader unusable, IMO.
The gray theme also presents a number of subtle problems. For example, the like, bookmark, and other post options are gray icons on a gray background. It’s not always easy to see when you’ve clicked one. But on the plus side once you’ve saved a post it can be found again in the saved section. Digg also imported all my saved posts from GR, which is nice.
And it’s not all bad. Digg Reader does offer a reading view that is somewhat improved over Google Reader. It’s not the pop-out reading window that some news readers offer, but it is clean and more pleasant to read than GR.
Digg Reader App
When your invite for Digg Reader arrives, I suggest that you spend a few minutes playing with it.
Then go back to whatever news reader you were using before. Digg Reader is not worth adopting today, and based on its current functionality I don’t think it will be worth using for a couple months.
On a related note, the Digg app for iPad and iPhone are supposed to be updated today or tomorrow with the new Digg Reader. It might be worth keeping an eye out.
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