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Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by mpc »

I actually really like it. The design is cool and adds a lot of new UI features without over doing it or moving away from the simple and clean interface that made is so popular.

Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by greyman »

inigojones wrote: post #19

A classic example of fixing what's not broken.

Exactly my thought. del.icio.us worked as expected, and I for one didn't wish any new feature. I just want to bookmark currently visited URL with tags, and that's it. That uber-polished design is completely unnecessary, even distracting. Even the former URL del.icio.us was more cool that this one.

I am sad.

Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by rossriley »

jm4 wrote: post #3
gaika wrote: post #2

Looks so strange after you got used to the old UI. Hover over effects and animations everywhere make it look like a kaleidoscope. Hate that. Some link URLs have been changed and are normalized in the wrong way! Link to my site now has 'www.' prepended to it. Lots of scripts and apps that rely on URL being stable will fail.

Now that I use the new one I'm wondering what the long wait was for. The search stuff is ok, but I don't really see anything else besides that and the new look. It's much slower than the old one. =/ I hope they plan to roll out more because this is pretty lackluster considering how long they've been talking about it.

Didn't Yahoo make them rewrite it from Perl to PHP... probably accounts for a fair bit of time.

Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by ralph »

Another unwelcome change is that the XML you get from, e.g. http://del.icio.us/api/tags/get now comes with a trailing comment containing the date and time. This means periodically downloading your data to store off-del.icio.us results in a growing set of diffs even when none of the real data's changed. E.g.

    -
    +
Now, I can change my scripts to easily work around this, but should I really have too? Didn't compiler writers learn a long time ago that embedding a timestamp into a object file is a bad idea; far better for it to be determinate for comparison and testing.

P.S. +1 for wanting the old UI back. Sorry, joshu.

Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by revorad »

cmars232 wrote: post #15

I'm a long-time del.icio.us user and I feel burned. Performance looks good, but I absolutely hate the new layout, its distracting and completely defeats the original simplistic appeal of the site. It kind of looks like Digg painted blue... and I'm a reddit-kind of guy :P At least when Microsoft came out with Vista I could choose not to upgrade and keep XP. This really sucks! Any recommendations on alternatives that a…

>>At least when Microsoft came out with Vista I could choose not to upgrade and keep XP. This really sucks!

I think you make a very interesting point. This could be a major problem for online applications, where users are forced to use newer versions even if they prefer not to. Perhaps, as web applications mature, they will start giving users the option of using older versions, although I'm not sure how practical it would be for the developers.

Re: Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real

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Post by pskomoroch »

Hopefully they fix the usability issues they introduced quickly. I'm a long time user and I might bail. More feedback here:

"Suggestions and ideas: What do you dislike about the new design?" http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID...

Maybe contact Bernard as well:

Bernard Kerr, lead designer user experience designer @ delicious http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/04/bernard_kerr_yahoo_...

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