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murklins

Newsletter scripts & new Delicious

Sep 27, 2011 10:00

So Delicious is a disaster. If I wrote you a newsletter script and it is not operational, comment to me on either version of this post (DW or LJ) or shoot me an email: verymurklins at gmail. I think some newsletter scripts are semi-working, while others are totally broken, depending on which method I used to pull links from the site. (And if your ( Read more... )

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fitofpique September 27 2011, 18:01:04 UTC

I will cry with you. Now that I've sent off a quite scathing email, what else is there to do? It's not like I can search for something new to read ;___;

murklins September 27 2011, 18:10:01 UTC

It's really bad. SO BAD. Last night I got so depressed trying to use it that I had to just go to bed.

;___;

fitofpique September 27 2011, 18:19:47 UTC

I seriously cannot believe how extraordinarily bad it is! I really didn't think they could screw it up that much all in one fell swoop.

D:<

murklins September 27 2011, 18:41:22 UTC

They took out all the features and broke all the tags! WHY? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

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dossier September 28 2011, 11:34:26 UTC

thank you for the offer of scripting for another site! the sga_newsletter is going to seethe and whine for a bit, while we (read:me) decides what to do.

murklins September 28 2011, 16:29:26 UTC

Yeah, give it some thought and let me know! If you move, I'd recommend Pinboard since it has a thorough API that's almost identical to Delicious'. But if you balk at the fee, or tying the account to a credit card, Diigo also has an API that might work, though it might be limited to grabbing only the most recent 100 links... possibly I can work around that though. Just thinking out loud now. :)

dossier September 28 2011, 16:37:57 UTC

I have both Diigo and Pinboard as personal accounts, and so far Pinboard has my vote. Diigo has a tag limit that is unusable for me, and though we don't post much porn at the sga_newsletter, I'd rather not deal with the privatization of those kind of links. I get their policy and applaud it, it is definitely more geared towards teachers, scholarly stuff, so they're protecting their assets... at least they're not just deleting them out of hand.

stbacchus September 29 2011, 16:27:13 UTC

Just wanted to say thanks for redoing the BBC Merlin newsletter script so fast. With the series 4 premiere coming up in a couple days, things are going to be hopping. Thanks so much!!!

AVOS' transition blog says they're working on a way to restore access to all the existing bookmarks, even for people who didn't opt in. They've also restored the old APIs. So that's promising, if only because it will make it possible to preserve existing bookmarks for transfer to a different service.

BTW, for anyone interested in switching to Pinboard but not interested in paying real munnies for it, there is an account donation project proposed here: http://epershand.dreamwidth.org/64491.html

murklins September 29 2011, 18:49:11 UTC

No problem, the script was remarkably easy to convert! Yay for pinboard having such a similar API. \o/

That's good news from AVOS. I haven't done a thing with my personal account, yet -- it's more archival than anything, so I can afford to wait and see.

Thanks for the link, if we do another link roundup on deliciouslymad I'll be sure to include it.