why did they do this to us?

[ratcreature]

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.

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[frogspace.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, the last time I checked there were already some improvements and the problem with the broken pairing tags seems to have been fixed. I would say wait a few days, delicious might turn out alright after all. In the meantime I've made a backup of my bookmarks on pinboard.

[ratcreature]

Well, the slash is the least of my problems with the new site. Sure, somewhat inconvenient, but I could have coped. That I can't actually see all my tags or browse my bookmarks is a larger obstacle. I mean, I won't delete my delicious account or anything, and I'd be happy if they just fixed it, because Pinboard is missing features Delicious used to have (tag bundles, tag subscriptions and such), but I'm not holding my breath. The reason I did not get a Pinboard account back when the there were the first news about AVOS acquiring it (and it was still cheaper) was that I was really hoping that it might turn out alright, or that at least I could cope. I had not imagined it could be this bad.

[mllesatine]

This is probably old news now but I'm going to say it anyway. Delicious now allows you to display all your bookmarks but when you wish to see them, it opens a new page (instead of displaying all items on the sidebar). It's still not ideal but at least they are trying to fix things.

Oh, and they said that the reason for displaying small numbers of tags and bookmarks was that they were afraid the servers would crash.

[ratcreature]

Considering that they knew how many users with many tags they had before starting I'm less than sympathetic that they did not plan their servers accordingly. But I noticed that they are slowly restoring functionality, e.g. first they introduced an "all tags" view that did not actually show all tags but just the first two hundred or so, but now it actually lists all. Still no bundles, and right now, their page stalls my browser so that I have to terminate their script execution.