sad.
Thank you for making it trivial to get my bookmarks out.
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us
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#52Time to back up those flickr photos.
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#53sad.
You can't trust Yahoo! with your data or anything. They can shut-down anything.. anytime. Remember Geocitites?
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#55curl https://{your username}:{your password}@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > bookmarks.xml
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#56The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.
never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting.
It's a shame they didn't, because many of us users sure did/do. By virtue of its popularity and simplicity, you could know almost every page with any merit was in its system and tagged, making it easy to discover stuff you hadn't even bookmarked yet.
Example: Want a good Python tutorial about threads? http://www.delicious.com/tag/python+threads+tutorial - You can pretty much pull things out of your ass and constantly find gold on there. Yahoo has no spine.
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#57The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.
My mom knows what delicious is. That's pretty mainstream in my book.
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#58It's been a busy day over here.
Yup, "The service is not available. Please try again later."
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I switched to Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in ) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard…
This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94
It goes up a penny every 10 users (see here: http://pinboard.in/help/fee/)
Right now it's 6.97, so at least 50 signups since the parent (~$350 in revenue in 20 minutes)
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#60The writing has been on the wall for delicious for years. They never made any money, never found mainstream adoption, never made use of the enormous flow of user sharing data they were getting to do anything interesting. They have been operating on a skeleton crew for years. Such a shame.
the system was actually quite a bit larger than they ever talked about. millions of users, etc.
Now that they're shutting it down, I would love to hear your thoughts as founder on why delicious didn't live up to its potential.