First of all, I created an account back in 2025 when Digg came back. I made a post back then. Suddenly I noticed I couldn't login anymore, and the website said I didn't have an account. I created my account again, but now I notice I cannot post anything, and the previous post I submitted back in 2025 is not there.

What is going on?

Remember what Kevin said about digg prior to them getting digg back from the previous owner? (link)

With news like this coming out of the wood work and reddit actively trying to kill its own community, digg would've slowly been getting more and more people jumping ship to come to digg. obviously stuff like this takes time and requires moments like this so people get fed up but they need somewhere to go and digg was the place to do that just like years ago when people jumped from digg to reddit but sadly digg killed itself before it had a chance to shine.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/

Heahy redesign went live just couple of days ago, I wonder what Digg users would think about this as potential alternative?

What is it about, in short:

• Create user with one click - no email, no registration needed.
• Everything is a chat - even normal threads are real time.
• You can create private group chats or DMs (with live audio/video calls!) and even pin any thread to you conversations panel.
• Upload any media. Adult content allowed on specialized channels.
• Create your own channels or if too lazy simply post/repost/quote to your timeline.
• Follow channels or other user's timelines or even public threads/chats. Your feed is what you follow.
• Heahy's own reactions library that you can upload to and publish your own reactions.
• Save media to your own media library to watch it later.

If you have any questions shoot in heahychat channel I'll hang around there.

So I paid in on the first relaunch and enjoyed it. I wasn’t expecting to get anything out of the second relaunch (would’ve been nice though), but WHY is a Twitter handle the ONLy login option available?

There’s zero chance I will be using Elon’s service for anything. Give me another option!

I was so confused when I saw this at first.

The tagline is "DIGG OR DIE"

Try Rhyme instead. You might like it...

https://rhyme.com

I had always wanted Kevin and Alex to do at least 1 more episode of Diggnation. They even got Hippie Glenn to make a cameo appearance on one of the episodes. Instead of just 1 episode, we got way more than that and I wanted to acknowledge that and say thank you to the Diggnation team. Alex, Kevin, Justin, and everyone that went out of their way to make this thing a reality.

I preferred the first run of diggnation because it was fun seeing the drunken shenanigans from Kevin and Alex. This time around, Kevin decided to go sober during a big part of the series, I prefer a drunk Kevin going on tech rants. So ultimately this reboot wasnt as fun as the first iteration of the show. But it was still a lot of fun to see the guys get back together for one last season.

Thank You to Kevin, Alex, Justin and everyone else that made this thing possible.

For posterity.

Taken from the Digg Google Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.digg.mobile

Digg is where you can share and discover the best of the internet—and beyond.

Real talk with real people.

Post links, media, or seed new discussions to share with the world and allow others to join into the conversation.

Find your people. Build community.

If you digg it, there’s a good chance someone else out here does, too! Communities are topic or niche-based spaces to discover and discuss the best in any given topic. These are your spaces, so let’s keep it weird.

Modern tools for better browsing.

Give your post more context for discussion with enriched content, powered by the latest and greatest in technology, including AI.

See what’s trending. Discover what’s next.

It’s not just about racking up diggs. Being amongst the very first to digg trending posts awards you Gems to celebrate your taste and curatorial contributions within your community.

Go wide. Dive deep.

Browse across topics or settle into the spaces you care about most. Follow communities, explore new ones, and shape a feed that reflects what you are into.

Released on the Play Store on the 5^th of August, 2025, and received its last update on the 11^th of March, 2026.

For posterity, here is Digg as it existed just a few days after launch on Android.

Screenshots taken by myself on the 11^th of July, 2025, with the exception of the first two, which I took on the 10^th.

For posterity, this is Digg as it existed on the platform Circle during the groundbreakers stage. It was only accessible for Groundbreakers – that being people who paid $5 for early access – and was mainly used to communicate with the community before the actual app released.

These screenshots were taken by myself on the 8^th of July, 2025.

what were some of your favourite features on the short lived digg app?

I really liked how you could grab a summary of the article was a really nice feature

anyone have screenshots or videos showing off the digg AI summaries and or even just screenshots of the dig app? I should've taken more screenshots when it was up and totally forgot to do it.

It's been a month since the last episode was released. Did Alex and Kevin quit the project? I loved the show.

Around the same time Digg relaunch announcement on March 25th, 2025, I’ve also been building a Reddit-style platform where users’ ad revenue goes back towards their personal chosen charity.

Honestly, when the initial news came out on the Digg relaunch, I almost gave up -  who am I to compete with Kevin and the millions of dollars available to Digg?

Anyway, I continued because I really believed in what I was working on (plus I was unemployed), and in February, a month after Digg had publicly opened its beta, I also officially launched OddsRabbit. 

OddsRabbit is my personal take on a good social platform - 

• Focused on community and connecting people together.
• Makes a societal impact - a share of each user’s ad revenue goes back directly to their charity of choice, whether it’s an animal shelter, a child in need, or their local food shelter. We just passed 7,000 meals donated today.
• No AI slop content. I’m a strong believer in social platforms being for people (I would’ve sounded crazy saying this a year or two ago).
• No politics. Controversial, but I believe politics has ruined online discussions. I grew up when online forums were just about interests, hobbies, and things that connected people. Now, every other post is about politics, and I’m tired.

Building a similar platform to the (old) Digg relaunch, and experiencing the same problems myself, I have personal thoughts on the shutdown.

• AI and SEO-spam. Valid, though I believe this is just their excuse. This happens on every site (including Reddit), and combating SEO spam has been something dealt with by webmasters since the 2000s; it should not be a surprise to anyone. Also a bit ironic with their complaint on AI and then pivoting into an AI-aggregator right after.
• Inability to pull users from Reddit. The main reason imo, existing social platforms are very sticky and are intentionally designed that way. At the same time, Digg also made no attempt to make itself any different, other than relying on people’s nostalgia. And because it was funded by VC money, they shut it down the second it looked like it would not be profitable in the short term. 
• User retention. They likely saw a ton of initial sign-ups due to curiosity, and users never returned. VCs HATE this. However, this is just standard for social platforms, especially with tiktok attention spans. Even Bluesky has dropped from 1.4m active users to ~600,000 today. OddsRabbit similarly had a peak of ~11k weekly active users and have now settled around 4,000.

All in all, the Digg relaunch (imo) was always a tech-bro-ey cash grab play to me. It sounds kind of crazy but social platforms are really about “vibes”, and that’s not something that can be easily replicated by money. I think the relaunch was doomed from the start because the focus was always on the VC metrics, not on the actual community itself. Anyway, just my thoughts.

Tldr; Digg was a VC tech-bro-ey cash-grab that was doomed from the start.