AVOS!Delicious: The Good, The Bad & The Future
I, like many of you, knew it was coming. I just thought I would have more time. Yes, I am talking about the makeover the new owners have given Delicious.com. Rather than put up a beta-site for people to test and give feedback first (Yahoo, for all you do wrong, I appreciate this about you so much), this morning I woke up to the new version of the
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Thank you for putting this all together. I'm still trying to figure out what's working & not & trying to plan for when they "fix" things because my tags are a mess, but not so bad as I know others' are.
I had first migrated my bookmarks over to Diigo back in December, but found the service to be very cumbersome & so haven't added too much to it other than when I wanted to save something to cache. They do do the auto-fill on the tags, but it's a pain just to get it to work. ...And their tag situation is horrible over there considering they have not only a tag limitation, but also a character limitation on the tag field -- I'm still fixing my tags over there & it's been over 9 months. Granted, I haven't been over there religiously fixing them, but the point stands that with over 6,000 bookmarks needing their tags fixed either because I lost tags due to their set limitations on the tag field, or because I have "special" characters that are not accepted & so the tags were either skewed or split completely, it's been a bear of a job.
If you do go forward with a Fannish Delicious, I would be more than interested in using it. I'd also offer to help with coding, but my skills are pretty basic & mostly rusty--other than what coding goes into doing LiveJournal entries / comments, which I don't think would be very helpful towards the end product.
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I'm not ready to cry yet --- I'm still in shock & I'm trying to believe in rainbows & unicorns & pots of gold just landing in my open arms... :D I'm willing to be somewhat delusionally hopeful for about a week. I can give them a week....man, I hope I can give them a week. *hangs head* The unicorns are fleeing even as I type on here. LOL!
Actually, I'm groaning at the work ahead of me with fixing my tags -- thank goodness, I don't have a lot of "unacceptable" symbols in them, but my word count tags are going to drive me over the wall like they did over at Diigo (of course, Diigo had a whole 'nother pot of potatoes in addition to that). I'm also trying to plan some work-arounds barring the absence of my tag bundles, but so far my plans end up with me doing a whole bunch of re-naming with too-long tags, which is scary by itself. (OOoooh!! I just had a thought on that... it's still going to be massive re-naming, but the possibilities are fantabulous!! Thanks in advance if it works!! *hugs*)
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I hear you. But... at least all the tags are there that were there originally -- nevermind any additions that came with the transfer -- even as broken as they are, they're still there, which means the idea is still there. So, it's only a little broken organization-wise & maybe organization will be better for being newer...? (one can only hope, anyway.)
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Thanks for the feedback on whether you'd use it. I may take you up on your offer. There are a few things in the works. Something is going to go forward from here and I will have more details in the next few days as the flail settles. Either way, there will be some form of fannish bookmarking site. Even if you don't want to code, there are plenty of other things that can be done. Don't discount user testing (like AVOS did).
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Well, definitely count me in on user testing. And if there's something else I might be able to do, I'd be more than willing to help out -- even if it's another set of eyes for whatever.
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