this all sucks

[ratcreature]

Apparently Yahoo is planning to shutdown delicious and have already gotten rid of all the delicious employees, so maybe that it is not working right for me is already due to degrading infrastructure?

And the other bookmark service I used fannishly, Simpy, (well once upon a time I bookmarked fanart there because they had better tag operators than delicious, but it had been flaky so I drifted away) shut down earlier this year, as I only now noticed. They didn't even sent users an email or anything, so I didn't export my bookmarks from there. Thankfully that were only a couple not the 5800+ I store on delicious. :(

Also SGU was cancelled. And even though I would have rather had SGA, I still watched SGU. I'm not that broken up about it being cancelled, but I'm not gleeful that it's gone either.

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[astridv]

Oh, sucks about delicious. Good to know in time, though. I saved my delicious bookmarks as html pages for now, so at least I have copies.

Haven't watched SGU yet but ironically from what I heard, it sounded like it was just getting interesting.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I saved my bookmarks too, but it's not so useful to have 5800 bookmarks with 6000 tags in a html file, so I'm going to export into another service. I do have a diigo account but never got used to that. The horribly named "mister-wong.com" is quite like delicious, and has tag bundles. I checked that out when delicious limited the number of tags you could give a single bookmark but unfortunately it didn't do any better on that account. Also the name issue, though at least they got rid of their racist logo. But if delicious is closing I might need to overlook that.

WRT SGU, I thought they missed some cool opportunities at the end of season one, when I would have liked for it to into a different direction. I never really warmed up to the characters to feel fannish, but it was okay to watch.

[astridv]

I made a Diigo account last night. Looks like a decent alternative. However I think the importing-from-delicious feature is either really slow right now - wouldn't be surprising, with everybody switching over at once - or it didn't work. I'm gonna try again.

[ratcreature]

In principle importing works. At least it did when I got my account at diigo a few years back and wanted to try the features, so I imported the delicious bookmarks I had then (many many fewer than I have now).

[astridv]

Do you remember how long it took? I started mine last night and this morning there was still nothing, so I sent another request. Hope I won't end up with doubles.

[ratcreature]

I think it was fairly instant. But then it weren't many bookmarks, and at the time there was no rush of people coming to diigo.