When the boat is sinking the solution is to: 1. Throw stuff off the boat (including passengers); 2. Bail water off the boat; and 3. Fix the hole in the boat.

When the boat is sinking the solution is to: 1. Throw stuff off the boat (including passengers); 2. Bail water off the boat; and 3. Fix the hole in the boat. Kevin Rose tried (2). The new CEO is trying (1). Both of these delay the I editable. The hole in the boat in his case is the $40m in funding Digg has received. I'm not sure there's any recovering for that. The crux of Digg's problems is that it went the way of most online communities: it became extreme, exclusive and inbred. That's hard to recover from. Ultimately Digg is now largely irrelevant. Twitter and facebook have supplanted it as the sites for discovery for most people.