NOOOO DELICIOUS NOOOOOOO

Delicious is currently non-functional. kronos999 investigated the features and lack thereof and lays out the horror in more detail, but lowlights include

• Names of other people to save a bookmark are no longer associated with the tags they gave it at the url page


• Network is gone (in its place is a list of links to people you follow, but you have to visit their pages individually)


• Tag subscriptions are gone


• When filtering by tag, you can only see the latest 10 results for each tag(-combination). There is no ability to page back.


• Searching the entire site by tag is supposed to work, but apparently isn't necessarily (even if the tag in question doesn't contain a special character), and the results are sorted funny.

Not unrelatedly, Diigo censors tags by automatically privatizing bookmarks with keywords like 'porn' or 'sexy' attached.

And it's nice that the people at Pinboard are fandom-friendly, but here's the thing. I already pay for journaling. That isn't a big deal. We could do it. The problem is that what I want, and what I think a lot of us want, and what delicious was close to achieving, was a fairly fandom-universal option, a social network of fandom links that was open to everybody. And a fee threshold is simply too high to be that universal solution.

I mean, it's hard enough to get fandom people to migrate away from a place that's spit in our faces as many times as Livejournal without also adding any other causes for reluctance to the mix (rather poetically, the fandom delicious community, Deliciously Mad, is still on livejournal).

I haven't been able to export my bookmarks from delicious for the past few days (although I have full access to my account!). I'd been figuring the exporter was just overloaded with everyone else jumping ship; but now I seem to see that other people have been exporting successfully. Now I'm wondering if the problem isn't simply that mine are timing out because I have 4,000+, which is more bookmarks than the average bear. IDK. Just hoping that the exporter starts working for me again soon, unless someone has another suggestion. (I saw from mecurtin that the hostsfile workaround tested by brownbetty had failed for at least one person, so maybe stopped working? - and also since I can at least access my bookmarks on new!delicious (although not very well what with all the abovementioned lack of features), I presume they will eventually be capable of exporting them.

ETA: I got them using the api as per seperis's post here.

ETA on the subject of AO3's possibilities as a replacement for delicious

The short version is "They're miles and miles away from that", but we've been told here that it's being put back on the high priority list for them, which is something. Right now the functionality isn't ready, but if we're looking at long-term planning for a fandom-specific bookmarking solution anyway then it's worth considering one extremely useful feature of AO3:

TAG-WRANGLING.

And the tag wranglers already do that at AO3; sharing the tagging system for bookmarks and the archive would have the major advantage of eliminating the need to (for example) search for "mckay/sheppard", "john/rodney", and "sheppard/mckay", not to mention all the people who name their tags something like "pairing:sheppard/mckay" or "pairing:john.sheppard/rodney.mckay". Tag-wrangling lets the tagger call it Snarry or Cherik if they want to, and still lets the searcher find everything that's actually about the same two people.

And as someone who (used to) spend a HUGE amount of time on Delicious, with links in my bookmarks sidebar to over 20 "Recent [pairing] Bookmarks" and "Popular [pairing] Bookmarks" pages, I found the lack of canonical tags really, really annoying.