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Help Identify Inactive Fandom Delicious Accounts!

Jun 28, 2011 02:37

Okay, fandom! Sometime in July, maybe even on July 1st, control of Delicious will transfer to AVOS. Any Delicious account that has not explicitly opted in to the transfer will be lost forever. I would like to generate a list of fannish accounts that have not opted in and back up all their PUBLIC bookmarks. To do this, I need a lot of help, in not a ( Read more... )

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theaeblackthorn September 15 2011, 23:18:49 UTC

:( The big switch comes on 23rd of this month, how did your archiving go?

murklins September 15 2011, 23:36:05 UTC

It went really well, actually! We backed up a LOT of opted-out accounts, the question now is what to do with all that data. So far it just sits on my hard drive. It will be interesting to see what the post-AVOS landscape looks like.

theaeblackthorn September 15 2011, 23:53:54 UTC

If you ever need a hand with it, let me know, I'm a web developer by day and a massive fandomfic-list peruser by, well, day sometimes too <.< >.>

:)

murklins September 20 2011, 16:44:25 UTC

Thank you, I totally might take you up on that at some point!

AVOS Update Info shibela September 20 2011, 05:07:57 UTC

AVOS just posted an update on their blog at: http://www.avos.com/transfer-your-bookmarks/

It seems the final date of transfer is going to be September 23rd, 2011.

Are there still Delicious accounts that are unaccounted for as far as fandom links, etc. goes?

Re: AVOS Update Info shibela September 20 2011, 05:09:21 UTC

*headdesk*

I really need to read the end of the threads before re-posting posted news... LOL! Sorry about that. :)

Re: AVOS Update Info murklins September 20 2011, 16:43:47 UTC

Ha, no problem, I should have made a post about the news and not left it to languish in comments!