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Re: Del.icio.us

#101

Post by DharmaPolice »

Scarblac wrote: post #72
conjectures wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels to me like some of that was having the same group of random strangers interacting. Rather than a constant flux of single comments.

And threads stick around, rather than disappear after a few days.

This is the biggest single change for me. On Reddit I sometimes see a thread which is exactly in line with my interests, I have extensive knowledge of and would love to discuss with people. And then I see it was posted 22 hours ago, and so it's almost pointless replying to it.

Old forums had the opposite issue (with threads years old being "necro'd" back to the top, confusing everyone) but at least you could have a discussion over a couple of days.

Re: Del.icio.us

#102

Post by SNACKeR99 »

I loved del.icio.us back in the day. So much, that when it went down for a few days in 2003, I wrote a clone of it that I still use to this day, self-hosted. I also archive the text content of the page, which has saved me a few times. At this point I have about 11,000 bookmarked URLs, and if nothing else, it's a fun way to find out what I was doing on a given day.

Re: Del.icio.us

#103

Post by zozbot234 »

sawaruna wrote: post #89
Scarblac wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's content discovery without any algorithms involved, and only works well on things that have actual URLs (so no dynamically generated "feeds" and so on). Who knows, maybe the world is thirsty for that.

I've been writing a bit about content discovery sans algorithms and I think there is at least some number of people would be interested in it. Social curation is appealing, though I'm not sure how popular a dedicated site for curated link sharing would be. While things like Reddit, Twitter, etc. are not 1 to 1 replacements, I think it serves a similar purpose for a lot of people.

Reddit, Twitter etc. are quite okay for naturally-ephemeral content but if you want to share a stable/growing bookmarks collection, or even cooperate with others sharing their own, there's nowhere to do it. DMOZ used to work quite well aside from the usual controversies relating to its centralized moderation, and a federated variety of that plus something like delicious/stumbleupon for "tags" and folksonomy would be interesting to experiment with.

Re: Del.icio.us

#104

Post by jedimastert »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #44

Hmm next what, people will abandon Facebook and flock back to thematic PHPBB forums? (I honestly can't wait!)

I used to teach computer literacy for a highschool co-op (home-schoolers would come in once a week) and the school used a free-housed phpbb for everything. The amount of engagement and discussion was actually somewhat surprising

Re: Del.icio.us

#106

Post by omega3 »

jelv wrote: post #33

Pinboard/Maciej bought it 3 years ago and put it into read-only mode. Details: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

hilarious :)

Re: Del.icio.us

#107

Post by qwerty456127 »

Cool! I was looking for a service which would auto-tag my bookmarks kind of like Del.Icio.Us did long ago. Pocket requires a premium account for this (which I find slightly overpriced) so I was looking for alternatives (can anyone suggest any by the way?) and now I see Del.Icio.Us coming back! That's a lucky coincidence! I would prefer to avoid exposing the list of bookmarks I have made, however. All I want to share is tags, without information about who exactly bookmarked what.

Re: Del.icio.us

#108

Post by Kunix »

tomduncalf wrote: post #43

Haha I swear I read something on here the other day about how trends are circular and it won't be long until del.icio.us is back, and here we are! I seem to recall del.icio.us being a great discovery tool, as well as a great way to catalog your bookmarks (another discovery tool that was great for a while was Stumbleupon). Will be interesting to see if anyone can bring back some of that "old school" curated/personal d…

I loved StumbleUpon, and I find myself missing a discovery tool like that one. Reddit and other websites give me the impression of running in loop. If anyone has good discovery tools to recommend!

Re: Del.icio.us

#109

Post by dagw »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #93
_joe wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real throwback would be going back to use newsgroups, and only have competent people posting.

Probably setting karma limits to allow only high-ranking users write. Plus moderate it to block gaming the system. Right?

One really nice things about newsgroups was that most clients let you write your own scoring rules for posts, meaning I could moderate each group and set "karma limits" based on what I cared about.

Re: Del.icio.us

#110

Post by dillutedfixer »

Awesome!! I hope they bring back that feature that would load a random bookmark. I used to discover so much weird and cool stuff on the internet that way, kinda like HN ;) Conversation starters for days. The Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm fanfic group was still by far the most “unique” thing I ever came across.
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