How relevant would be del.icio.us these days? (edit: typo)
Very useful in my opinion, given the decline of Google
Edit: Referring to ways of discovering non-mainstream content
Del.icio.us
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#32I absolutely loved del.icio.us back in the day and I would love to use it again. No other method of bookmarking/collecting sites worked for me as well as del.icio.us. And I have never found the right alternative.
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#33Pinboard/Maciej bought it 3 years ago and put it into read-only mode. Details: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
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#34This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.
did they get bought by yahoo a long long time ago?
They did, and let it rot, before shutting it down. At the time it seemed like a huge waste. But perhaps, if you can escape becoming the yahoo/AOL/etc homepage, you have a chance to live again.
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#35Aw yeah! I used to use this site all the time, I had quite a lot of bookmarks in here. I think I have an export floating around somewhere but it will be great to see the site up again. I always found the folksonomy model for aggregating and finding content very interesting, unfortunately it seems to have fallen out of fashion as sites like del.icio.us disappeared.
I wouldn't say that the model itself has disappeared, folksonomy is still the foundation for hashtags after all. It's just that few people are working on crowdsourced bookmark directories ala del.icio.us these days. Hopefully we'll end up with a federated standard for web directories, where users and trusted organizations can "endorse" their bookmark collections and put their reliable identity behind those endorsements.
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#36This reminded me of rememberthemilk.
It's still there! https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
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#37I absolutely loved del.icio.us back in the day and I would love to use it again. No other method of bookmarking/collecting sites worked for me as well as del.icio.us. And I have never found the right alternative.
pinboard was what I started paying for, after reading lots of HN praise.
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#38I absolutely loved del.icio.us back in the day and I would love to use it again. No other method of bookmarking/collecting sites worked for me as well as del.icio.us. And I have never found the right alternative.
pinboard was what I started paying for, after reading lots of HN praise. https://pinboard.in
I'm another happy Pinboard customer. It's a fine no-nonsense replacement for Delicious.
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#39I never used del.icio.us but am I wrong in thinking that getting bookmarks from 10 years ago will just give a bunch of 404's?
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#40del.icio.us was the epitome of web search and discovery for me. I used it over other search engines back in the day. It was great at finding sites on esoteric topics. I think human curated search like this is the best kind. Unfortunately those days are long gone and we have the Web by Google now.