AVOS!Delicious: The Good, The Bad & The Future

[kronos999]

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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on the subject of fic.ticio.us

[afallenseraphim]

Well, first off, as someone who bookmarks for fandom purposes only, and knows many others who do the same, I can say that I feel especially ostracized by this new reform.

You've managed to sum up every feeling of discord I have for Delicious right now, but do so with as much eloquence as is necessary to actually sound marginally knowledgeable about the things of which you speak, whereas I like cussing.

Well, that and scathing sarcasm and just being generally belligerent (see: petulant) about the whole thing.

but whatever, it's good bandwagon toons

I feel I'm within my rights as a patron of the site, though. I'm actually in agreement with your roommate. It seems that they've geared themselves in some direction opposite of our unseemly fannish depravity, and fuck me here I am left out in the cold with no way to get my Johnny Storm/Peter Parker tagging on.

Now, actually ON the subject of fic.ticio.us, I am in love with that idea. I think I recall it, or something like it, being kicked around on a comm or two back when we were all concerned that our bookmarking boat was sinking entirely (and wouldn't that have been a kinder iceburg, in retrospect? I feel like I tried to cheat death just to have Grandma bite it instead).

You don't know me from Tom, Dick, or Harry, but I would be *more* than happy to donate time and effort to help get a project like that off the ground. Diigo and Pinboard just don't cut it, and with Delicious bending us over like this I say there's no reason to be complacent with having to settle for less.

I care a lot about my fan communities, and about having havens for fandom in general, and I'm not okay with being all but formally dismissed by websites that decide we aren't their 'target demographic'. Cuz guess what? This is the god damn internet, and there's a lot of us, a lot of us and we're damn loyal when we're treated well. Google 'fanfiction', and then compare the hits to 'porn'. We're not your demographic? We should be.

Not to go all 'we are legion, for we are many' but damn it, I'm pissed. Viva la resistance, baby.

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[deerang2002]

Bravo!!! You've articulated my feelings exactly...

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[kronos999]

I appreciate your rant so much. I feel it in my bones. There is something going forward. I have a few irons in the fire and, no matter how the delicious falls out, it looks like something will happen. I will update you as a plan evolves if you like.

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[afallenseraphim]

I would love. Like I said, anything I can try to do to help, I'm all there. And while I couldn't promise without a doubt, I do have a couple of friends with software development know-how whom I could try to interest in lending a hand, if they don't have any humongazoid projects taking up all their time (which, granted, they usually do, but they're giant geekwads just like me, so maybe they'll step to the cause).