one good thing that came out of the delicious revamp

[ratcreature]

In the complaint and suggestions forums one of the delicious people mentioned that the new search engine can do NOT-operators. So while putting for example putting "slash-pwp" in your tag field to show you all slash you bookmarked that is *not* a pwp doesn't work, you can now search your bookmarks with "+tag:slash -tag:pwp" and get that result. Maybe everyone but me already knows this, but in case you missed this feature like I did, I thought it worth pointing out.

Also I've seen comments by the poor beleaguered "community manager" intern (who has been really quite nice through this fiasco) that they will bring the "unbundled tags" display back soon. I still think they should have noticed that their users actually want to keep this feature before launching their new version, but it's something at least.

Comments

[wabbitseason.livejournal.com]

How about those empty tags? I can't seem to figure out how to delete them since they won't show up on the list.

[ratcreature]

Er, I have no idea. I've seen it mentioned by others, and I have the same problem but no clue how to get rid of them easily. Actually in those bundles that I can still edit unbundling them works to remove them from the "All tags" list too, though currently my larger bundles don't load for editing at all (that is apparently a bug that they are now aware of and intend to fix), so I can't remove them from those bundles. Note that the empty tags won't appear in the tag cloud so you can't click them to unbundle but they will be listed in the text field for their bundle and you can delete them there.

[dossier.livejournal.com]

oh, hey cool! I've often wanted the 'not' feature, and in fact have arranged the tags so that I didn't have to use it. However, I'm *not* going back through 9,000+ tags *again* to fix.

I discovered the new delicious addon for FF has a right-click to tag feature added in; I installed it, killed everything in options that had to do with synching (which I loathe, it never finishes) and then the addon works fine for me. So that helps. I'm getting used to it, but yes, knowing we get unbundled back eventually is fantastic!

[ratcreature]

Yeah, the syncing never really works for me either. I hadn't noticed that there was a new FF extension. Mine didn't tell me that there was an update available. OTOH the one I have works fine with the new one, that was one of the few things not causing any trouble for me.

I'm slightly mollified that they seem to be trying to fix things, and for example I can now edit larger bundles again (though I split my largest anyway since they started to get unweildy and delicious in general doesn't seem to like large bundles too well) so bugs do seem to get fixed, but I can't believe that they didn't notice any of this before (both the bugs and the features users would have liked to keep). I mean, just who did they test this on, and why didn't they put a notice somewhere more prominently to invite testing? I mean I used their service pretty much daily and had no clue that they were beta testing a new design or planned to change features.