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cimoreneI woke up this morning to find the fandom discussion around Delicious has progressed a little bit. There's good reason to hope that we'll have a fandom-based solution to this in future, but for now we need to find a stopgap solution.
After the initial furor last night and the discovery that Pinboard has no plans to add social features, most people seem to be settling on Diigo.
Because my main use for delicious is a social one - ie delicious is more useful to me the more other people in fandom use it - I hope that as many people as possible will go to the same place, and since it looks like that's it for now, I want to encourage everyone else on delicious to move to Diigo as well, but not yet because the site's down. I don't think the fact that it's down right now is necessarily a bad sign; the traffic involved in importing years' worth of bookmarks (I'm not the only person in fandom with 3,000+) is a lot more than it should be receiving from ordinary search and browse requests, once things settle down a bit. The good news is that you don't have to import your bookmarks to Diigo right away, as long as you save them to your computer before del goes kaput.
In my last postlim said,
Nevermind! It seems the distinction is not significant enough to be important and the exported HTML files should be easily convertible.
ETA: And just to reiterate, because I saw some people talking about this various places last night, if you open the file in your browser, the tags will not be visible, but they are there! To check if it really worked, you can see them if you open the file in a plaintext editor such as Notepad on Windows (I like Gedit, my wife likes Leafpad...). The exported file isn't a great way to save your information for personal use because you can't view/use the tags, but it does make it possible to import your bookmarks elsewhere.
After the initial furor last night and the discovery that Pinboard has no plans to add social features, most people seem to be settling on Diigo.
Because my main use for delicious is a social one - ie delicious is more useful to me the more other people in fandom use it - I hope that as many people as possible will go to the same place, and since it looks like that's it for now, I want to encourage everyone else on delicious to move to Diigo as well, but not yet because the site's down. I don't think the fact that it's down right now is necessarily a bad sign; the traffic involved in importing years' worth of bookmarks (I'm not the only person in fandom with 3,000+) is a lot more than it should be receiving from ordinary search and browse requests, once things settle down a bit. The good news is that you don't have to import your bookmarks to Diigo right away, as long as you save them to your computer before del goes kaput.
In my last post
lim said, Yeah, AO3 will be there but in terms of search/browse it's not there yet, I agree. I've just advised GG_News to backup to Diigo on the grounds it has an import from delicious function on its toolbar and a relatively familiar interface.
We have to get people to back up to XML, which will at least give us options later on, when we do find a permanent home (and when AO3 IS there, people can move in wholesale if they've got XML backup).
Nevermind! It seems the distinction is not significant enough to be important and the exported HTML files should be easily convertible.
ETA: And just to reiterate, because I saw some people talking about this various places last night, if you open the file in your browser, the tags will not be visible, but they are there! To check if it really worked, you can see them if you open the file in a plaintext editor such as Notepad on Windows (I like Gedit, my wife likes Leafpad...). The exported file isn't a great way to save your information for personal use because you can't view/use the tags, but it does make it possible to import your bookmarks elsewhere.
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Date: 17 Dec 2010 02:36 pm (UTC)All very good points. I think I might just CP your post in a few days *g* :D
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Date: 17 Dec 2010 02:37 pm (UTC)However, it did work for me last night. Maybe the API's just overloaded rn.
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Date: 17 Dec 2010 02:38 pm (UTC)