Just as I was reaching my threshold for being ticked off & seriously contemplating a permanent flip to Google Reader, Kinja is back and they're back strong, with an extreme makeover and some great new features. (Please forgive the reproduction of the entire list... I'm a fan, not a plagiarist!)

What new features are available in this release of Kinja?

• Users may search for sites and view a "profile" card that contains information about the weblog, including the most recent entries.
• Bookmarklet finds the closest site match and displays the profile card page.
• Related sites, or "kin" of a site are discovered by link analysis and displayed on the site "profile" page.
• Users may view site "mentions," a digest of entries that link to a site.
• Registered users may tag weblogs, and share tag-based digests.
• Algorithmically determined "topic" digests replace the "editor's" digests.
• Related topics are suggested for sites and favorites.
• When available, a thumbnail of the first image for an entry is displayed.
• Favicons replace the manually created, or user submitted icons on digest pages.
• RSS and Atom feeds are available for all digest pages.
• OPML output is provided for all "favorites" pages.
• OPML import now supports the standard 'rssUrl' attribute.
• "Confirm" screen displays closest match to existing sites in Kinja when site URLs are added through direct input or OPML.
• Registered users may specify their time zone.
• Limited (OK. Very limited.) support for languages other than English is added for registered users.
• Fully searchable and context-sensitive help is available.

This is great, esp the tagging, and the profile cards, which allow easy access to inbounds, traffic graphs, & other site info for the sites that you subscribe to. And hey, how cool is it that now there's a single feed of my digest. Holy cow. It was worth the downtime, guys.... I'm in.