WTF YAHOO YOU PIECE OF SHIT

[osaraba]

So yes, I'm among the ones (all of fandom?) panicking over Yahoo's decision to shut down delicious.com. WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING?! Luckily(?), since I'd been out of fandom (almost any fandom, really) for years and years until relatively recently, I don't actually have that many bookmarks. I haven't been using delicious to its full capacity, but I know how very much delicious is the backbone of fandom -- memes and newsletters (not to mention, us fangirls) depend on it -- so I know how horrible this is going to be on the fandom level.

On a personal level, I've got less than 400 links bookmarked, so I can easily save them elsewhere and transfer them whenever I've found a new bookmarking home, but from bookshop's helpful post of brainstorming for alternatives, it (unfortunately) seems like none have the social utility that delicious does (seeing how many people have saved a link, for example, which is a nice reccing system that I never got around to taking advantage of).

WHAT WILL FANDOM DOOOOOOOOOO?!! T_T


ETA: Looks like mahalo.com is interested in taking over/maintaining delicious! (source) OMG PLEASE LET THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN!

ETA2: Update on the Delicious front! Looks like good news in general, and as an alternative several options are cropping up because some people panic and flail and some people get motivated to work out something better. (source 2)

So actually now my question is -- my Delicious login is my Yahoo! login -- what's going to happen now? I hope it'll be rolled over or something, but in case it isn't I think I should probably export my existing bookmarks. I'm fine with it, as long as I can (eventually) come back to Delicious and (hopefully) with my old login. =/

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[thursdaynext-27.livejournal.com]

I transferred my work-related links (~100) to Diigo. The actual transfer took about 12 hours, so I'm guessing their servers are getting a lot of traffic right now. For fannish links, I'll give Pinboard a try.

Sadly, as people with Delicious accounts move on to other social bookmarking systems, we're going to lose that great concentration you get when everyone is using the same resource. The bookmarking and reccing will get more silo'ed, plus some of those sets of Delicious links won't even get transferred--they'll just disappear when Yahoo shuts it down.

[osaraba]

Everyone's in an uproar over Yahoo's decision -- mahalo.com is interested in taking over/maintaining delicious! I hope that actually works out. *cries*

In the case that Delicious IS shut down, however, I'm sad that fandom is scattering in a panic. I'm sure there will be another gathering wherever the majority ends up, but in the meantime... =(