News regarding delicious.com

[wistfuljane]

There's some bad news for newsletters who used delicious.com automated script for generating newsletter issues [eta: or just used delicious.com for general organization/archiving purposes]:

I don't know how many of you still read this comm, but I'll post anyway! On Tuesday Yahoo laid off the entire Delicious team and today it announced at a company all-hands meeting that it will be "sunsetting" Delicious [eta: smaller version of the screencap], aka shutting it down, although there are no details yet on when or how, from any of my sources inside Yahoo. It could be months or years - although they'll almost certainly announce it ahead of time (at some point), like Geocities.

- Goddamnit, dreamyshade aka Britta from delicious.com

And from TechCrunch: Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes].

Although the closing of delicious.com may be a long time off, I think there's currently limited alternatives to delicious.com in terms of being able to generate links into a customized format. I don't know, what are your thoughts on the feasibility of Diigo, AO3's bookmarks feature and other alternatives? bluemeridian has a related discussion on this here [eta: there's also a links roundup there].

Addendum: renay discussed here about the would-be impact of delicious.com closing on ff_press, the Final Fantasy newsletter, and possible alternatives to delicious.com.

Other links:

• AlternativesDelicious (big collaborative Google Docs, geared toward educators/education usages)
• merlinkinkmeme: Delicious discussion forum (discussion of delicious.com alternatives)
• hermitsoul: some whining and some contemplating (list of pros & cons for delicious.com alternatives)
• cupidsbow: diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo

Comments

[hermitsoul]

I suppose burying my head in the sand is not the best plan? *sigh* For now I'm hoping it takes a few months at least, that should give us time to come up with something else. AO3 just bumped importing and improving bookmarks up the priority scale, and Britta sounds like she has some good ideas. Plus, I'm sure Dreamwidth coders are talking right now as well.

I do like Diigo for nonfannish bookmarks, will probably import my fannish ones to a new account and see how it goes. I also just signed up for a Pinboard account - so far it looks ok, though I'll definitely miss my bundles.

[wistfuljane]

AO3 just bumped importing and improving bookmarks up the priority scale, and Britta sounds like she has some good ideas. Plus, I'm sure Dreamwidth coders are talking right now as well.

*nods* From this thread, it seems like Dreamwidth coders are doing the same. Let's hope, hmm.