diigo vs delicious, and how to set up diigo

[cupidsbow]

There are several reasons I have accounts on two social bookmarking sites. Mostly, I began by wanting a back-up site for my recs on delicious; but having now compared the functionality of diigo and delicious, diigo is the clear winner in nearly all respects.

Social bookmarkingIronically, delicious wins this category. I started out on delicious

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[angstslashhope]

The endpoint validated when I changed it to the Dth one - http://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/xmlrpc

[sailorptah]

Ooh. I may have to get into this.

[vamp_ress]

Mhm, this sounds interesting (I'm always eager to try sites and communities). Especially the group feature could be very useful in a fandom context.

One question: Does diigo allow you to group tags together? I find myself using this feature a lot on delicious, because I group all my fandoms, authors, pairings ect together.

[cupidsbow]

Not that I've been able to find. It's one feature I love on delicious too! I've been hoping diigo would bring it in at some point.

What I'm finding is that using the two services together is very complementary -- I kind of bop between them, and together they are greater than the sum of their parts.

[vamp_ress]

I'll keep your post in mind. I admit to not having a backup of my delicious links. Very bad of me, perhaps it's time to change that!

[lyndseas]

Well, it's nice to have a backup of all my bookmarks up to this point, but I have to say it's something I won't be using much. I use tag grouping all the time, which isn't on diigo. And when I imported my Delicious bookmarks it cut off my tags. I'm not willing to go back through and fix the tags of all of my >2500 heavily tagged bookmarks!

[carnadosa]

Mmmm...it's weird, because it took me about a year of using delicious before I got the bundling thing but at over a 1000 tags? I can't really work without it anymore. I really want to like diigo because it does have some interesting increased functionality, but I find interface is ugly and busy. It also doesn't appear to have the same character limit as delicious. Which is horrible (no really, I also cried with joy when delicious went to 1000 char limit).

I think I would have loved this site if I'd found it while in grad school, but so far I hate it for fandom purposes. I'll try it a bit longer to give it a fair shake though.

[cupidsbow]

I actually use the two services in combination, rather than picking one over the other. That works pretty well for me. Obviously, you mileage may vary.