The revamped Digg functions similarly to Reddit: users can share links that others might comment on and vote for, with popular links—those receiving lots of “diggs” (upvotes)—rising in the feed. Additionally, you can use a “bury” button to downvote posts, not comments. This acts more as a tool for Digg to filter out certain content from your feed.

The Home tab comprises four main sections: Trending, Most Dugg, Newest, and Heating Up. The distinction between “Trending” and “Heating Up” was unclear to me, but the content in “Heating Up” felt more current and lively.

Each of these categories allows you to see content from “My Feed,” which gathers posts from communities you follow, or “All Digg,” which includes all posts from Digg. Presently, there are a few general communities: /AMA, /art, /digg, /diggnation, /entertainment, /finance, /food, /funny, /gaming, /lifestyle, /music, /news, /offbeat, /politics, /science, /sports, and /technology. Below these categories is a horizontal carousel displaying various links, though the selection criteria for these links aren’t clear to me.

Clicking on posts reveals details like the post’s text and accompanying images or links. For those with links, a “TL;DR” summary is provided by “Digg Intelligence,” likely AI-generated, and I haven’t encountered any issues with these summaries. Beneath the main posts, you can view comments in a threaded format and choose to either Digg or bury them.

The overall experience is visually appealing and mostly efficient, despite encountering occasional error messages when launching the app, which corrected themselves over time and then it functioned as expected.

But assuming those are just temporary blips and extended issues aren’t the norm, it’s still just way too early to tell if Digg has the juice. A great part of Reddit is finding a hyper-niche community about something you care about, but since users can’t make communities yet, I’ll have to keep getting my Hollow Knight: Silksong memes from r/silksong. Since Digg is still invite-only, there just aren’t that many people or posts on the site yet; it might be a while until the platform sees some truly legendary comments.

Digg also has far fewer features than Reddit right now. There’s no way to chat privately with users on the platform, for example. But depending on what you think of the current state of Reddit, that could be a good thing.

I think Digg’s iOS app has a great foundation (as does the web app, which launched in July), and there’s a lot of room for it to get better with new features and more users. I don’t know if Digg will be the homepage of the internet once again, but it does at least seem like a place you might want to come back to.