Apparently Yahoo is shutting down Delicious

[petronia]

I never understood the appeal of ill-thought-out 140-character rants, but today I came extremely close to tweeting something along the general lines of FUCK THE CLOUD. FUCK THE CLOUD IN ITS ASS.

I mean, forget my bookmarks. I can export my bookmarks. But I use that shit to SURF FIC, DUDE.

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[chibaraki.livejournal.com]

WAIT WHAT

FUCK

MY BOOKMARKS

[narie.livejournal.com]

ok so I left this comment elsewhere, but, how the hell does one find fic on delicious?

I feel like such a luddite.

[narie.livejournal.com]

I mean, such an ANTISOCIAL luddite.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Er, well, you can follow users you know, but the easiest way is to type a fandom or pairing into the public search bar on the front page. XD;

Basically, any tag or metadata structure you've seen in LJ fic comms, it's being used in delicious to some extent. What really makes me rage here is that delicious is being used as the sole archival structure on a number of fic memes, since LJ tags obviously don't work for those, and without it they'll be unnavigable.

Well, first world problems and all that.

[narie.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've been using it to follow assorted anon memes (Glee, Inception) and for that it was a godsend, because the tagging structure doesn't work and finding fills is painful and I don't even have the ability to track LJ threads. But it had never occurred to me to search the cloud for tagged fic. Haha, I am so tragic.

Any news on where the kids are migrating to?

[perseid.livejournal.com]

FUU~~

[petronia.livejournal.com]

There are ppl who have created huge and minutely organized personal rec archives in delicious! I mourn the loss of their work to the public domain. :/

There's also the ad hoc "Digg" aspect, whereby number of delicious bookmarks is indicator of quality/popularity (though snowball effect skews it hugely).

I have heard Diigo, which is over-featured IMO, and pinboard.in, which is paid, and xmarks, if you don't care about crowdsourcing (but crowdsourcing is where all the added value is, even in fandom).

...Maybe Yahoo will listen to the outrage of the entire tech blogosphere and backtrack. Though considering they apparently fired the entire Delicious team, not likely. = =+

[troisroyaumes]

This, exactly! I don't even really use my delicious.com account regularly enough to care but how am I going to search for fic recs.../o\

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

I AM WAY MORE UPSET ABOUT THIS THAN YAHOO HAS ANY RIGHT TO MAKE ME. I DON'T EVEN USE LIVEJOURNAL TO SURF FIC ANYMORE, ALRIGHT? CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIST

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

I still miss the twee web-1.0ness of del.icio.us. :/

It's kind of boggling, though, shutting down a useful product that has no existing replacement. The web isn't entirely Facebook yet, dudes.

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Damn, how am I supposed to find fics on huge LJ memes, now??

[hemlocke.livejournal.com]

Woke up in the morning to find this. WHAT, JUST WHAT. DO. NOT. WANT.

[ampersandals.livejournal.com]

WHAT

Seriously, WHAT. I use it to surf fic AND other things! a;jdf;ajdf

[starlighter.livejournal.com]

THERE WAS SO MUCH CURSING THIS MORNING WHEN I FOUND OUT OMG. I find all my good new fic through Delicious! I have trusted rec sources! Tagged searches! GODDAMN YOU, YAHOO, YOU GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGS.

[qem_chibati]

You can subscribe to tags so whenever anyone tags something with timetravel, one of my favourite kinks, I am there!

I used frequently browse :

http://www.delicious.com/tag/crossover <- anyone who has tagged something crossover publicly will show up there.

http://www.delicious.com/tag/crossover+naruto <- anyone who has tagged something so that it has naruto and separately crossover, publicly will show up there.


It's also easy to go through the networks of other people and have a look at what their watching to see if there is anything of interest to you.

;.; No other bookmarking site I've seen is as comfortable to browse socially (although this may be biased) nor do they have the same userbase that has made delicious so awesome over the years.


Downloading/importing the bookmarks is easy - it's just... Social networking. ;.;

[narie.livejournal.com]

Ok you guys are really opening my eyes here. I am really averse to most things social on the web - ie I don't generally read my twitter feed, or interact with facebook beyond updating my status or the such - and I have done more or less the same with delicious, but yeah, there is definite potential there in terms of fic browsing and searching...

Alas that I only discover it when it is too late.

[qem_chibati]

Diigo lets you do similar things it just doesn't have the same userbase / ease of browsing.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I have an account at diigo. Diigo is about about being able to mark up stuff on the web and takes notes on it, and then MAYBE, if you feel like it, sharing your mark ups and notes with others. It's not really about publicly organizing other people's content for the benefit of other other people. THAT'S WHAT DELICIOUS IS FOR.

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

wait, what the -- HEY I WAS USING THAT >:O

[disprove.livejournal.com]

But I use that shit to SURF FIC, DUDE.

Exactly! What about all those kink memes?!