Digg will let you reserve your username (for a price)

The caller Digg mightiness look a small similar this.

Digg’s instrumentality to the modern net is 1 measurement person with the motorboat of an “early access” radical called Groundbreakers. For a one-off $5 interest you tin assertion your username earlier idiosyncratic other does and get a down the scenes look astatine the caller Digg arsenic it comes together. 

Digg says that the $5 interest “keeps the bots astatine bay,” and that proceeds volition spell to a nonprofit to beryllium chosen by the Groundbreakers community. It’s a one-off charge, not an ongoing subscription.

In summation to locking down their username, members of Groundbreakers volition get aboriginal entree to mockups and previews of the caller Digg, with the accidental to springiness feedback straight to the improvement team. They’ll besides get a imperishable Groundbreakers badge connected their illustration erstwhile Digg goes live. It’s worthy noting that this isn’t really aboriginal entree to Digg itself conscionable yet, but a radical connected the Circle assemblage platform.

The rebooted Digg was announced past month, with archetypal laminitis Kevin Rose returning alongside a radical that includes Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian. It volition inactive beryllium centered astir sharing and voting connected links, but takes inspiration from the emergence of Reddit and volition incorporated AI to assistance user-led communities with moderation.

Invites to articulation Groundbreakers were initially sent retired to Digg’s mailing list, but you tin present sign up without an invite. There’s seemingly a constricted fig of spaces, though Digg hasn’t said however many.