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Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by dajohnson89 »

mmahemoff wrote: post #94
conjectures wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

Newsletters are the new RSS. Different protocol, but simpler for non-technical users and a viable business model. Some recent apps (Stoop and HEY) make the reading experience more like traditional RSS readers too.

adding rss feeds to (say) google reader doesn't require technical expertise. email newsletters require your email address, which is obviously prone to abuse and spam. newsletters aren't the new rss, but rather an arguably inferior replacement.

Re: Del.icio.us

#113

Post by curation »

millstone wrote: post #26

This 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.

I was so sad when del.icio.us stopped. I wonder if old logins will work - I still remember mine!

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#114

Post by marcus_holmes »

conjectures wrote: post #60
whym wrote: post #25

Ask HN: Why did delicious.com fail? (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493212 After some digging, the above thread seemed like the most informative one as to what happened to Delicious (with a top comment from joshu, no less).

This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

It's still there, but support isn't great - a lot of sites don't have a feed, or it's waaaay outdated.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by genmon »

conjectures wrote: post #60
whym wrote: post #25

Ask HN: Why did delicious.com fail? (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493212 After some digging, the above thread seemed like the most informative one as to what happened to Delicious (with a top comment from joshu, no less).

This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?

Check out NetNewsWire which is a free (and open source) RSS reader for Mac and iOS, under active development:

https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

NNW is fast and simple. Using it, I've come to feel that RSS doesn't need to be updated -- it just needs modernised tooling and a frictionless UX. Now I have a good reader, I spend as much time reading feeds as I do on social media. And I feel good about spending time reading and skimming, knowing that there isn't an engagement algorithm which is trying to steer me towards extreme responses.

Re: Del.icio.us

#116

Post by marcus_holmes »

dajohnson89 wrote: post #111
mmahemoff wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Newsletters are the new RSS. Different protocol, but simpler for non-technical users and a viable business model. Some recent apps (Stoop and HEY) make the reading experience more like traditional RSS readers too.

adding rss feeds to (say) google reader doesn't require technical expertise. email newsletters require your email address, which is obviously prone to abuse and spam. newsletters aren't the new rss, but rather an arguably inferior replacement.

ah, but newsletters allow you to serve adverts, which is really why RSS "died".

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by piva00 »

_the_inflator wrote: post #67
millstone wrote: post #26

This 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.

Yep, I have fond memories of delicious (they featured a browser add-on to ease the bookmarking process). Delicious, Digg, Technorati, StumbledUpon - those were the days!

Delicious, Digg, StumbledUpon and slashdot were my main fresh content feed back in the days, found so many useful articles and fun websites through them...

Re: Del.icio.us

#118

Post by rasikjain »

Wow...I had ton of sites bookmarked in del.icio.us. Was using their service heavily. Good to see the effort by Maciej to bring it online.

Re: Del.icio.us

#120

Post by fergie »

Great news! I was genuinely baffled when they shut it down. Easily one of the best and most influential websites of its time. In terms of content it was on a par with HN, Slashdot and Reddit, with a slight bias towards design.
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