[news] Delicious is Saved (Kind of)
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fangasmicWell that was a terrifying 24 hours. First there was the news that Yahoo would likely shut down Delicious, permanently, in the near future. Fandom had a freak out, understandably, overloading and accidentally DDOS'ing the servers of previously lesser-known but similar services Diigo, Pinboard.IN, and Licorize to name a few. Fans even discussed starting an alternative service called Fanmarks which we still think would be interesting (maybe with specific clouds for fandoms, etc).
Luckily, late this afternoon news was released on the official Delicious blog that Delicious isn't being shut down, it's more likely being sold and we collectively released the breath we'd been holding. The only downside is that we'd all already gone through 24 hours of grieving and the usual stages:
Shock and Denial
Even the author of this article on Geekosystem didn't seem to want to believe it was true. We get it. We basically spent 5 minutes trying to claim it was all a lie before we immediately started looking for alternatives and frantically exported all our delicious bookmarks.
Pain and Guilt
Please, as if you weren't doing the same thing. I was.
Anger and Bargaining
I'd say there's an idea, but I really want Yahoo to acquire itself so it can just self-implode.
Depression
There are some other pieces of gold on here, but to you, hollys_tree, I say: seriously, why do you still have any Yahoo accounts? What is this, 1993?
The Upward Turn
Sadly after selling loads of accounts for 6-8$ a pop (lifetime cost) and having their servers overloaded, I'd bet that with Delicious continuing on (hopefully) the traffic on Pinboard.in is about to drop from insane back to slightly higher than normal.
Acceptance
A divorce instead of a shut down we can deal with. I mean, really, girl, you can do better. Yahoo is a total scrub. Ironically, the Huffington Post (which I always read as Hufflepuff Post, enjoy that, FG fans) has buttons to tweet, facebook, or buzz their stories. But not a button to share it on Delicious.
TL;DR: Right, the point is: aren't you glad I don't have to rename our So Delicious So Terrible feature So PinboardIN So Terrible?
Yeah. Me too.
Luckily, late this afternoon news was released on the official Delicious blog that Delicious isn't being shut down, it's more likely being sold and we collectively released the breath we'd been holding. The only downside is that we'd all already gone through 24 hours of grieving and the usual stages:
Shock and Denial
Even the author of this article on Geekosystem didn't seem to want to believe it was true. We get it. We basically spent 5 minutes trying to claim it was all a lie before we immediately started looking for alternatives and frantically exported all our delicious bookmarks.
Pain and Guilt
Please, as if you weren't doing the same thing. I was.
Anger and Bargaining
I'd say there's an idea, but I really want Yahoo to acquire itself so it can just self-implode.
Depression
There are some other pieces of gold on here, but to you, hollys_tree, I say: seriously, why do you still have any Yahoo accounts? What is this, 1993?
The Upward Turn
Sadly after selling loads of accounts for 6-8$ a pop (lifetime cost) and having their servers overloaded, I'd bet that with Delicious continuing on (hopefully) the traffic on Pinboard.in is about to drop from insane back to slightly higher than normal.
Acceptance
A divorce instead of a shut down we can deal with. I mean, really, girl, you can do better. Yahoo is a total scrub. Ironically, the Huffington Post (which I always read as Hufflepuff Post, enjoy that, FG fans) has buttons to tweet, facebook, or buzz their stories. But not a button to share it on Delicious.
TL;DR: Right, the point is: aren't you glad I don't have to rename our So Delicious So Terrible feature So PinboardIN So Terrible?
Yeah. Me too.
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Date: 2010-12-18 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-19 05:59 pm (UTC)Fanmarks sounds like a pretty great idea, IMO.