Apparently Yahoo is shutting down Delicious

[petronia]

I never understood the appeal of ill-thought-out 140-character rants, but today I came extremely close to tweeting something along the general lines of FUCK THE CLOUD. FUCK THE CLOUD IN ITS ASS.

I mean, forget my bookmarks. I can export my bookmarks. But I use that shit to SURF FIC, DUDE.

Comments

[narie]

ok so I left this comment elsewhere, but, how the hell does one find fic on delicious?

I feel like such a luddite.

[narie]

I mean, such an ANTISOCIAL luddite.

[petronia]

Er, well, you can follow users you know, but the easiest way is to type a fandom or pairing into the public search bar on the front page. XD;

Basically, any tag or metadata structure you've seen in LJ fic comms, it's being used in delicious to some extent. What really makes me rage here is that delicious is being used as the sole archival structure on a number of fic memes, since LJ tags obviously don't work for those, and without it they'll be unnavigable.

Well, first world problems and all that.

[narie]

Yeah I've been using it to follow assorted anon memes (Glee, Inception) and for that it was a godsend, because the tagging structure doesn't work and finding fills is painful and I don't even have the ability to track LJ threads. But it had never occurred to me to search the cloud for tagged fic. Haha, I am so tragic.

Any news on where the kids are migrating to?

[perseid]

FUU~~

[tarigwaemir]

This, exactly! I don't even really use my delicious.com account regularly enough to care but how am I going to search for fic recs.../o\

[kickthebeat]

I AM WAY MORE UPSET ABOUT THIS THAN YAHOO HAS ANY RIGHT TO MAKE ME. I DON'T EVEN USE LIVEJOURNAL TO SURF FIC ANYMORE, ALRIGHT? CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIST

[_mike]

I still miss the twee web-1.0ness of del.icio.us. :/

It's kind of boggling, though, shutting down a useful product that has no existing replacement. The web isn't entirely Facebook yet, dudes.