We’re four and a half months into the new version of Digg. The new Digg team has managed to find its place in the news world quickly and by maintaining a steady stream of visitors, they’re positioned to make the move back up in the rankings. By focusing on quality only and bringing in some freshness either to the site itself or with the ways they distribute the stories through email and social media, there’s a chance we may see Digg rise from the ashes in a way that so few “fallen” sites are ever able to pull off successfully. Triage is over. MORE >>

No, Digg is not dead. As I posted on FastCompany last month, Digg has until May to get the help (which we’ve offered on multiple occasions free of charge) they need to get back on track or they will miss their last window of opportunity to keep from going the way of Propeller, MySpace, and Yahoo Buzz. If they do not get help, statements such as RIP Digg and Why Digg Failed will prove to be spot on assessments of a site that should have been skyrocketing in 2011. That helped to prompt the recent round of Digg-hate from the blogosphere. Not yet. Not yet. MORE >>

Kevin Rose has resigned from Digg. The founder and former CEO who helped put in place the debacle of Digg V4 is founding a new startup with a $1mil+ round of funding according to Techcrunch. Will he be tagged as the person who tanked Digg if it fails? Will he be considered the reason it grew but also the reason that if almost failed if Digg is able to come back from this? This comes as no surprise. His involvement at the site that put him on the cover of Business Week has been non-existent of late. tweeted him once, asking about a site feature back in January. MORE >>

Most believed that when Betaworks bought Digg last month and announced plans to revamp the site completely, that they were getting a recognized domain and a good amount of traffic to go with it. Despite Digg’s fall over the last 3 years, it has always hovered on Alexa’s traffic rank between 120 and 190 worldwide. Poor performance in the first 10 days of the Betaworks era at Digg have them ranked 203 on the Global Rank scale which accounts for the prior 3 months. In fact, there really is no true “community” at Digg anymore. MORE >>

If you’d come up to me just a couple days ago and asked if Digg were going to survive for the long haul, I’d have sadly opined, “No.&#. By way of background, here’s the 50-cent version of my Digg story: Account since 2007, active user since early 2008. 130,847 diggs, 18,960 comments, 3,466 submissions and 1,054 popular stories. won’t belabor the story about how Digg totally screwed up the site with Version 4. What’s often gotten lost in the debate over the future of Digg are these users – the REAL reason Digg was successful. MORE >>