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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by philfreo »

jules wrote: post #141
philfreo wrote: post #95

This is really annoying... I have over 3000 bookmarks on del.icio.us all nicely tagged, nice browser plugins, use it every day, etc. Definitely hoping to find an alternative that isn't a step backwards...

What do you want from a bookmark service on top of bookmarking+sync?

I don't even need sync, honestly. I just want the features of delicious, and I want to be able to trust that it won't go down. The features I care most about:

1. good browser integration - even through bookmarklets 2. good tagging system 3. ability to search my own stuff like http://www.delicious.com/philfreo/git+tutorial 4. ability to search lots of other peoples bookmarks 5. reliable 6. portability (so I know I can export and move elsewhere)

Basically, I want delicious to stay alive...

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by StavrosK »

umjames wrote: post #75

Well there goes months' (nights & weekends) worth of iOS side project work down the drain. I have a very large delicious bookmark collection that I was still posting to as of this week. Does anyone know if delicious' demise affects pinboard's API service in any way? Since pinboard's API documentation just links to delicious, now would be a good time to archive the delicious API documentation.

Oh, no need to worry!

http://cache.historious.net/cached/841175/

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by StavrosK »

blasdel wrote: post #209
idlewords wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pale plain text at password creation time, and regular password dots when you login. Saves having to have a 'confirm password' box.

I've been a huge fan of you for years, I've read almost everything you've written online a couple times over, and I'm asking you to please stop listening to Jakob Nielsen. Please. The most fundamental kernel of usability is "does what I expect", and everybody expects password masking everywhere. Everybody expects to type their password twice to register and once to login (the only fundamental distinction!). Everybody…

Try http://historio.us/, we have a password confirmation field!

Aaand that is one sentence I thought I'd never get to utter. Seriously though, pinboard is great too, and closer to the functionality of delicious. It's mostly a matter of preference.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by [deleted] »

Jun8 wrote: post #85

Noooo! I love delicious and am using it daily, it's one of the reasons I don't completely switch to Chrome (since the plugin is not as good as the Firefox one). OK, time to dire off the API and suck off all the bookmarks. Where should I put all my bookmarks? What other bookmark service has a nice browser plugin, APIs, etc? After this I'm also convinced that Yahoo is hopeless.

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Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by StavrosK »

delano wrote: post #100
Jun8 wrote: post #85

Noooo! I love delicious and am using it daily, it's one of the reasons I don't completely switch to Chrome (since the plugin is not as good as the Firefox one). OK, time to dire off the API and suck off all the bookmarks. Where should I put all my bookmarks? What other bookmark service has a nice browser plugin, APIs, etc? After this I'm also convinced that Yahoo is hopeless.

I haven't tried it yet, but people say good things about http://historio.us/ The founder is on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605908

By the way, use this referral link (or any of your friends') to get 100 extra bookmarks:

http://historio.us/referrals/NTEyICAgICAg/

You can do it yourself, in turn, to raise the limit up to 2000.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by wiseleo »

Tichy wrote: post #174

Dumb question, but couldn't they try to sell it again? Is that never an option, once a startup has been bought? I realize they probably have added some Yahoo specific stuff, like single sign on, so disentangling it might be too costly?

It wouldn't be that bad. A yahoo ID can be used as OpenID.

Re: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

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Post by lepht »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #144

Diigo, Stubmleupon, Xmarks. Many alternatives. Are they any good when it comes to tagging and browser integration?

In short: No. I've used Diigo and Xmarks, and they don't cut it.

Would love to be proven wrong, but even the "people's champion" here, pinboard, doesn't even approach the usability or functionality of delicious.

There's no first party Chrome extension. The best third party one, felicious, doesn't do tag completion much less suggested tags. The latency between adding a bookmark and having felicious show it is atrocious, even with 'auto-sync' enabled.

Ugh.

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