Gadgetory

I'm adrianne jeffries with the verge and this is the very beta version of the new digg reader so the new digg reader looks basically like your standard RSS reader it looks a lot like Google Reader on the left you've got your all feed of all your subscriptions you've got folders popular stories that you've dug this first version is basically only for Google Reader subscribers that's the only feed you can import is from google reader and that's where all of these are these feeds are from so as you can see on the right you can dig stories the save stories there are also the standard keyboard shortcuts for scrolling and they're pretty fast jay moves down k moves up s is for save d is for dig another neat thing about the Digg reader is you can sign in with Instapaper pocket or readability and it will remember your choice so the icon for Instapaper is showing up here because we're logged in with Instapaper so to add a feed or folder just go to add enter your feed URL and the future load as you're looking at your feed you'll see dots these orange dots appear on the side of the headline these dots indicate popularity with other reader users so the dots go from one to three the more dots there are the more popular the story is the idea is that if you're scrolling really fast for your feed you can see which store is maybe you should look at first so right now there's kind of a lot missing from this version of digg reader you can't mark stories as unread the fab icons haven't imported for your feeds which kind of gives the whole thing like this black and white look besides that it works for loading and reading feeds so I went to dig and I saw what the reader looks like in their designs and I have high hopes for it but right now the first version is missing a lot of things it has a lot of bugs and it might not be convincing for users who are trying to find a solution for their RSS needs by the time that Google Reader shuts down the Digg reader is rolling out to beta users today but it's not really going to be ready for the public until Wednesday next week which is still a full week before Google Reader shuts down hopefully the team can get it together and fix some of these problems basically what they told me is that they would have preferred to have six months they built it in half the time but they're going to continue to work on it and hopefully it'll eventually reach parity with google reader