oh my god

[catechism]

Is it me, or is delicious basically useless now? I am honestly not trying to be an asshole; I work in software development and I know how hard they've been working, but... holy shit

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[tenillypo]

In addition to all the stuff everyone has already mentioned, I'm seeing previously deleted bookmarks reappearing and also duplicate bookmarks in cases where I had edited a saved bookmark to update the URL. Links now appear to be showing up under the date they were last edited rather than created, meaning a minor change I recently made to a link saved five years ago now shows looks like I added the whole thing last week. And they've lost the fix that allowed you to insert new tags in between previously entered ones on saved links.

So no bundles, no subscriptions, only a fraction of tags visible, no bulk editing, and clicking on the few tags you can see brings up 1) a message saying no links are tagged with that bookmark, even when I clicked it from a link tagged with that bookmark, 2) a handful of completely unrelated links, or 3) a list of only ten appropriately tagged links with no way to see more.

Bottom line: I have a hard time imagining this would be useable for even "normal" non-fannish users. It's buggy as hell on top of the lost functionality. What could have possibly possessed them to release something this untested?

[tenillypo]

It seems from the way like they're hyping the stacking feature that they expect that to be the way people will organize their links. And... I don't get it. I mean, I can't even fool around with the feature right now, because I can't or access FIND 98% of my stuff, so maybe it would make more sense if I could fiddle with it a bit. But the way it's described just seems like a clumsier and less functional way of organizing than tagging and bundling. DO NOT WANT. Ugh.

[catechism]

My theory is that yahoo forced them to go live with it before they were ready. Nothing works! There can be no other explanation!

There is another possibility when you click on one of your links: 4) a 404 error! I can't even handle it. The more I think about it, the closer to a breakdown I get. /o\

[ruggerdavey]

That really is the only thing that makes sense. I can't see any other reason why they would go live with the usability so poor.

[tenillypo]

I mean, if that's the case, I wish they'd SAY something. I understand it's probably not standard PR procedure to come out of the gate saying "we're not ready, and here's why" but honestly, I would feel much better if I knew there was a reason other than gross incompetence or a complete failure to understand their user base and their product. Or worse yet -- and what I fear most -- an understanding of their current user base and a desire to get rid of them. *sigh*

[neotoma]

And it looks like you can't edit the URL -- at least, I tried and I couldn't figure out how to do it.

So... no tag bundles, no URL editing, italics everywhere (yeah, that helps readability), no more than 10 bookmarks per page, no network, broken tags, unwanted icons, 'stacks' that looking like goddamned *banner ads*...

I'm looking to move to Pinboard this weekend.

[tenillypo]

I was able to briefly log into the old Delicious with the Hosts file trick and exported and uploaded a clean, date stamped copy of my bookmarks to Pinboard. Very happy so far. Even if Delicious ends up getting it's shit together -- and their latest blog post does claim that bundles, nework aggregation and subscriptions are being worked on now -- I'm glad to know I have a solid alternative/backup. For a one time, $10 fee, it's worth it, IMO.