the new del.icio.us interface sucks

[ratcreature]

Some of you may have noticed that I use del.icio.us quite a lot to tag fanfic (unsurprisingly I'm ratcreature there too). I also use a lot of tags, applying the tagging philosophy that you really can't have too many assigned to a story to easier find it again later. The redesigned site tells me it's about 3500 tags now, and I frequently add more

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[sholio]

I didn't even know they'd changed it! Okay, now that I've looked at it -- wow, that kinda sucks, doesn't it? I hate that they don't have a section for unbundled tags anymore! I do mine just like you describe ... add tags as necessary, and use the "unbundled" list to know which ones I hadn't bundled yet. Looking at the new bundle interface -- am I doing something wrong, or can you not even SEE the tag list until you choose a bundle to edit? How'm I supposed to remember which bundles I NEED to add new tags to? Why would they do it that way? I also notice that it doesn't show a tag list anymore when you click the "add" button, which means I'm probably going to end up creating a bunch of similar-but-not-quite-the-same duplicate tags if I can't remember the exact name of the other tag. (I already do this in LJ all the time, and then have to go in and compile/delete duplicate tags by hand.) Grrrr.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, they must have tried really hard to make the tag bundling interface worse. Before seeing this I'd have sworn that it could only get better, but I've been proven wrong.

I mostly tag with a Firefox extension that offers me tag-completion, so apart from the odd typo or redundant terms that aren't similar I avoid that problem you have when adding tags (I also use a Greasemonkey modification for LJ tagging to have better tag completion and list them).

Also their javascript still freezes my browser half the time so that I have to click to abort their script, and the bundling page got worse with that too. How am I supposed to edit tag bundles if they don't load once they're large? Did they not test this? Maybe that's just me, I think I'll try loading it in a different browser, but wtf?

[ratcreature]

Also, you are completely right about not knowing which bundles need to be edited. *sporks interface*

Seriously, who designed this? Surely not anyone doing interface design for a living. And they can't have tested it on anyone who uses the site themselves while having more than thirty tags or so.

[jacquez]

The guy who wrote the original del.icio.us doesn't do interface design for a living, no. But he sold it to Yahoo!, so I assume that whoever did THIS interface actually DOES do UI for a living. Kind of sad, really.

[ratcreature]

It really is. Slightly cumbersome design that maybe isn't the most intuitive would be one thing, I mean, there is some room for different opinions and priorities, but you should be able to do basic things. I've now tried to load the tag bundling in another browser and it stalls later than in Firefox, but still doesn't load enough to be functional. So I can't bundle them, I can't display unbudled ones easily... surely someone must have noticed this.