A couple commenters (thanks
theaeblackthorn and
shibela) have pointed out that there has recently been some news about the Delicious transfer to AVOS:
everyone who wants to migrate their bookmarks to AVOS must opt-in by Sept 23rd, and the transfer will start on Sept 24th.
In light of this, you might be wondering how the Delicious back up effort went. Back in July, I got a great group of volunteers together, and with
kronos999's tool and assistance, we backed up thousands of opted out accounts. Thanks so much to everyone who helped out!
I still don't know quite what to do with all the public bookmarks we archived. For now I am in wait and see mode -- I want to know what the post-AVOS landscape looks like before doing anything.