Goddamnit

[dreamyshade]

I don't know how many of you still read this comm, but I'll post anyway! On Tuesday Yahoo laid off the entire Delicious team and today it announced at a company all-hands meeting that it will be "sunsetting" Delicious, aka shutting it down, although there are no details yet on when or how, from any of my sources inside Yahoo. It could be months or

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[blue_meridian]

*insert lots of swearing*

Thank you for the heads up. My problem with Diigo in the recent past was that it didn't import the full text of the notes field from Delicious - it seemed to just be importing the shorter text field that Delicious used to have. If you have a smaller number of bookmarks, it might be worth the trouble to fix after importing but I've just crossed 4.000 and I'd prefer not to.

The only other thing I'd add to your list would be tag bundles, ideally. I use the networking features extensively but it wouldn't be a deal breaker in the beginning.

[turlough]

My problem with Diigo in the recent past was that it didn't import the full text of the notes field from Delicious - it seemed to just be importing the shorter text field that Delicious used to have.

That kills Diigo as an alternative for me then, grrrr!

[blue_meridian]

I don't know if it's still the case, but I couldn't find out the first bit of information on it and quickly grew frustrated with their user interface.

[haikitteh]

This is astonishing news. Delicious seems to be the go-to bookmarking site - I can't believe they would close it!

I have been using Diigo, and frankly, I'm not super impressed. Continuing to use it out of being too lazy to export my bookmarks, but seems like there must be better out there. If you are launching a bookmarking site, I'd definitely be interested in checking it out. It sounds like your site would be specifically for fiction, though, and I'm not sure I'd be swayed totally over to that without the ability to bookmark other stuff I find on the internet. (Just my 2 cents!)

[dreamyshade]

Yeah, Diigo is just...ugh, really. But I figured I should mention it.

And oh, I definitely wouldn't make mine exclude normal-stuff bookmarks! Just consciously supporting fannish use, with great tag combinations, ability to ignore LJ post parameters so you can easily get a true count of bookmarks for a story, supporting structured tags in a sensible way, etc.

[paraka]

Umm, random person jumping in. I totally squeed at "ability to ignore LJ post parameters so you can easily get a true count of bookmarks for a story" but when I thought about it... how would that affect comment fic? Like, so many people use Delicious to find specific stories in kink memes but if you ignore the LJ post parameters would you see all the entries as a single link? Or would it still recognize the individual comments as different links?

As for the question in your post, the most important feature in Delicious, for me as a fandomer, is the search function. The ability to search through my own bookmarks and narrow it down by tags but also the ability to search through the collective bookmarks on the site. I get all my fic these days through subscriptions to the tags for my fandoms/pairings.

[rivkat]

Here via blue_meridian. What bad news! FYI, archiveofourown.org has a fanworks-focused bookmarking system for anyone with an account; you might be interested in checking in with them to see if there's any chance of synergy.

[dreamyshade]

Yeah! AO3 is such a fantastic project. It seemed like their bookmarking thing is only for fic on AO3 though, right? Not for everything?

[rivkat]

No, you can bookmark anything, even an external link. See here--every globe icon indicates an external link.

[melinafandom]

What's there is great, but for a delicious replacement, I need something that can include non-fanworks bookmarks, too. Plus it would have to support importation of my current delicious bookmarks.

[pollyrepeat]

Augh, this is awful. Delicious has been my primary fandom home since early 2006, and if I'm broken up about it, I can't imagine how you must feel. ♥

Thank you for the heads-up and the suggestions. As far as migration to a fan-friendly clone, I'll echo blue_meridian's suggestion of tag bundles. The ability to specify private/public bookmarks would also be nice.

[dreamyshade]

Yeah, that's the thing with Pinboard...it intentionally has no tag bundles, for simplicity. I'd want to support bundles of bundles to whatever level of Inception-style craziness people wanted to subject themselves to. :] And private/public definitely - maybe also a "toread" button, with integrating into Instapaper for easy reading later. I use Stanza and Instapaper all the time for that kind of thing.

And thank you. I'm really ridiculously lucky that I am working for a startup that I really enjoy, with a shiny exciting future - it's the best antidote to feeling blah! And I should get back to work right now...

[nezmar]

Sounds good. Count me in if you plan to actually do it!

nda

p.s. I second your G*ddammit :!

[lattara]

Also: integrating it in firefox.

[callowyn]

Seconding this. The insta-tag button in Firefox is what lets me use delicious efficiently at all. I'd also like the ability to show specific tags in the menu bar: basically, the functions of the current add-on.

[lapillus]

Thirding this. Without browser integration I won't end up using whatever. This is where Pinboard is useless to me. I can live without the social aspects, but without a button or, at worst, a hotkey I won't even bother.

[csad21]

Sorry to butt in, but it's any help, diigo has a toolbar that can be integrated into the browser, and pinboard has bookmarklets here: http://pinboard.in/howto/#saving that only need to be dragged to the bookmarks toolbar to be used, and then it works similar to delicious.

But I for one agree with you, I wouldn't have any use for a bookmark site if it didn't have at least bookmarklets.