oh my god

[catechism]

Is it me, or is delicious basically useless now? I am honestly not trying to be an asshole; I work in software development and I know how hard they've been working, but... holy shit

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[tahariel]

The issues I have found and flailed over so far are increasing all the time, but here's a quick run-down:

No tag bundles. NO TAG BUNDLES. The only thing differentiating delicious from all the other bookmarking sites and making it actually useful. And destroying five years of ridiculously obsessive tagwrangling and curation. I have over 2000 bookmarks.

No network or subscriptions. About 90% of what I do - did - with delicious was find new things to read this way. WHAT DO I DO NOW?

No mass editing for tags

Slashes don't work

Any tags with a colon in seem to also generate a new tag called for instance has:a if you ever used a:[author name] for tagging, which I did on every. Damn. Bookmark.

My firefox extension is taunting me by continually telling me my network has new links on it but when I click on the button it goes nowhere now. This is cruel and unusual punishment.

All of my notes - so authors' names, fic summaries, and commentary - are now in quotation marks and italics, which makes them harder to read and frankly

[mikes_grrl]

THIS THIS THIS. FFS, it was great as it was. This is *improvement*? I feel sick.

[catechism]

murklins and I expected a bunch of new useless features, not one new feature and THE REMOVAL OF ALL BASIC FUNCTIONALITY. God, it is so much worse than I feared. I'm so depressed about it.

[jenna_marianne]

This is what I thought, that they'd add in some shiny new features but you'd still be able to BOOKMARK and TAG and VIEW YOUR NETWORK. I was just worried my network would reduce because of people not opting in to the transfer; IT NOT WORKING AT ALL didn't occur to me.

[illariy]

Yeah, that totally sucks! All these changes seem either badly thought-out, badly executed or an indication that the service is moving away from common fannish usecases. I deleted my own account prior to the move but now, my heart really goes out to all people with big rec lists or newsletter compilers. :-/

[tenillypo]

In addition to all the stuff everyone has already mentioned, I'm seeing previously deleted bookmarks reappearing and also duplicate bookmarks in cases where I had edited a saved bookmark to update the URL. Links now appear to be showing up under the date they were last edited rather than created, meaning a minor change I recently made to a link saved five years ago now shows looks like I added the whole thing last week. And they've lost the fix that allowed you to insert new tags in between previously entered ones on saved links.

So no bundles, no subscriptions, only a fraction of tags visible, no bulk editing, and clicking on the few tags you can see brings up 1) a message saying no links are tagged with that bookmark, even when I clicked it from a link tagged with that bookmark, 2) a handful of completely unrelated links, or 3) a list of only ten appropriately tagged links with no way to see more

[tenillypo]

It seems from the way like they're hyping the stacking feature that they expect that to be the way people will organize their links. And... I don't get it. I mean, I can't even fool around with the feature right now, because I can't or access FIND 98% of my stuff, so maybe it would make more sense if I could fiddle with it a bit. But the way it's described just seems like a clumsier and less functional way of organizing than tagging and bundling. DO NOT WANT. Ugh.

[catechism]

My theory is that yahoo forced them to go live with it before they were ready. Nothing works! There can be no other explanation!

There is another possibility when you click on one of your links: 4) a 404 error! I can't even handle it. The more I think about it, the closer to a breakdown I get. /o\

[violateraindrop]

I'm just going to copy what I posted on tumblr:
"I think delicious is dead for me now

I used this site for organizing fanfiction, including the word count. Guess what? They split things with a comma up (which was totally fine before). I was already pissed when the tagging changed (you couldn't choose existing tags from a list anymore), but now this site is kinda useless to me. Great.

The best thing were the tag bundles, but it seems like they are completely gone. But now you can add a userpic, isn't that awesome? Goddamn, not every site has to be facebook! I used this to organize MY bookmarks. I didn't give a rat's ass about being "social". I don't need a bookmarking site for that!"

And that was before I discovered that slashes don't work anymore.

Looks like I just have to rely on Firefox or use my diigo account as more than just an emergency back-up.

[jenna_marianne]

So, deliciouslymad is taking on a whole new connotation for me.

They took away so much functionality! I hope they restore some, but if it stays as-is, the site may be kaput for me.

Thank goodness I backed up recently, and have backups at diigo & pinboard...but my favorite has always been delicious for so many reasons.

Where is my network, my bundles, the awesome search features!?! Why have they added weird "has:" tags?

I'm now deliciouslysad.