Digg Reader beta now live, iOS app ready, Android in a few weeks

Digg has promised a beta of their new reader and we expected the wheels to turn slowly so they get it right (unlike their website redesign they screwed up) and today we have news that Digg Reader is live. We assume seeing AOL enter this market lit a fire under their bums.

Here's the deal from their blog post:

After a week of testing and scaling, adding batches of users and improving our infrastructure, we’re happy to fully open Digg Reader to the public!

To give you a sense of scale, last night we were crawling over 3.3 million feeds. We’re now up to 4.5 million. That’s a lot of data – and it’s growing quickly – but (at the risk of tempting the cruel and unforgiving Fates), the site has remained speedy and stable.



We’ve spent a ton of time this week talking with early users and have identified a few urgent feature needs that we aim to add quickly:

- “View Unread Items Only” option for feeds and folders
- “Mark As Unread” button
- Accurate unread counts for feeds and folders

To try out Digg Reader, please visit http://digg.com/reader
Oh, and don’t forget to download the iOS app! (Android coming in the next few weeks)