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ratcreature) wrote2011-09-28 11:08 pm
ratcreature) wrote2011-09-28 11:08 pm
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why did they do this to us?
Like most other (now former) Delicious users I found the relaunch very upsetting to put it mildly. I won't rehash all the ways in which they broke the service, but it boils down to that now you can't use the site even for the most basic things, like accessing your own bookmarks in an efficient way. I gather that there might be some sort of technical reason for this mess due to Yahoo retaining ownership of some of the backend stuff, but I don't care. If they did not think to at least implement pagination links in the bookmark-by-tag display as essential, I won't hold out hope for them to fix this somewhere down the line. It is self-evident that if I had only ten links of a kind I would not need a service to organize them in the first place. That is not some kind of advanced or special interest use.
Anyway, I have too many tags for Diigo, both in total as well as per bookmark in many cases (not to mention their inconvenient content policies), though I am on the service as "ratcreature". My bookmarks there are mangled though, due to the mess with the tags. I absolutely need a way to tag my bookmarks, and to combine tags to find them again, and neither is possible anymore on Delicious, and Diigo can't accommodate my tags. Well, I guess "need" is not technically correct, in that I'd probably survive without a way to bookmark fic easily (before delicious I saved everything and did full text searches on my hard disk if I wanted to find a story again), but I like tagging and sorting things. I find it soothing to have neatly sorted links. Of course right now I don't have that, even though (like most other people) I really didn't need more things to be upset, anxious and angry about. So I decided to pay for a Pinboard account, also as "ratcreature" there.
Right now the import of my delicious bookmarks is still "pending" so I can't really say much about it yet. I do have one question though. I see that it has a bookmarklet for tagging. With delicious I always used the FF add-on, so that had its button in the URL navigation bar. Is there a way to but a bookmarklet there? I usually don't have that bookmark thing visible. I hate having to deal with unwanted change. :(
In happier news, today is my rats' second birthday, and while they do have both chronic illnesses now and need regular vet visits, they are both well enough for now that they enjoyed the scrambled eggs I made them to celebrate. And some months ago I wouldn't have thought that Leo in particular would still be here today for me to cuddle, but with the supportive treatments he's proven himself to be tougher and more tenacious than anyone thought. Projected on a human lifetime it would be the equivalent of him beating a gloomy six month prognosis for over two decades or something like that.
Anyway, I have too many tags for Diigo, both in total as well as per bookmark in many cases (not to mention their inconvenient content policies), though I am on the service as "ratcreature". My bookmarks there are mangled though, due to the mess with the tags. I absolutely need a way to tag my bookmarks, and to combine tags to find them again, and neither is possible anymore on Delicious, and Diigo can't accommodate my tags. Well, I guess "need" is not technically correct, in that I'd probably survive without a way to bookmark fic easily (before delicious I saved everything and did full text searches on my hard disk if I wanted to find a story again), but I like tagging and sorting things. I find it soothing to have neatly sorted links. Of course right now I don't have that, even though (like most other people) I really didn't need more things to be upset, anxious and angry about. So I decided to pay for a Pinboard account, also as "ratcreature" there.
Right now the import of my delicious bookmarks is still "pending" so I can't really say much about it yet. I do have one question though. I see that it has a bookmarklet for tagging. With delicious I always used the FF add-on, so that had its button in the URL navigation bar. Is there a way to but a bookmarklet there? I usually don't have that bookmark thing visible. I hate having to deal with unwanted change. :(
In happier news, today is my rats' second birthday, and while they do have both chronic illnesses now and need regular vet visits, they are both well enough for now that they enjoyed the scrambled eggs I made them to celebrate. And some months ago I wouldn't have thought that Leo in particular would still be here today for me to cuddle, but with the supportive treatments he's proven himself to be tougher and more tenacious than anyone thought. Projected on a human lifetime it would be the equivalent of him beating a gloomy six month prognosis for over two decades or something like that.