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Delicious is finally dead

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7 points by mappy 10 years ago · 5 comments

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novaleaf 10 years ago

i'm an active user. i use it for bookmarking.

it's been down for a few days, I hope it comes back, otherwise all my bookmarks are gone :(

edmanet 10 years ago

Wow. I hadn't thought of delicious in a long time.

thetechnews 10 years ago

i think delicious is live old version in short time

  • mappyOP 10 years ago

    They've been slopping about for the past several months, and it looks like they've finally given up on it.

    Really, how difficult is it to have a site and service that stores links and tags? Even at a high volume of data, in this day and age it should be trivial unless the money's not there to support it.

    According to http://blog.delicious.com/ , they cancelled the premium service in January, attempted to monetize it again via sponsored links in RSS feeds in March, failed to revise the site successfully in March, then had "site problems", and finally said this month that they would be transitioning back to del.icio.us, but they seem to have been unable to do that either. Now the site's either down or stating that it has too much traffic. They've completely screwed the pooch.

    It's really sad.

    • natevw 10 years ago

      Yeah, I made the mistake of continuing to collect links via the site while its been slowly getting more broken. Been too busy to write my own simple self-hosted version.

      Now I realize — obvious in retrospect — that I should have simply jumped to Pinboard as soon as I had managed to export my bookmarks a few weeks ago. (Or years ago when Delicious got "sunset" for the first time, and Pinboard first came out and everyone else but me switched over…!)

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