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ratherastory

Better than nothing?

Sep 30, 2011 16:25

My Delicious account is back from the dead, except it has amnesia. ALL my links have vanished.

I am so pissed off, I can't even. All of harrigan's hard work is gone ( Read more... )

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switchbladesis September 30 2011, 20:51:26 UTC

What do you use it for? Just fandom stuffm? I've heard good things about diigo, but also know that you can use AO3 to bookmark fics that aren't on Ao3

ratherastory September 30 2011, 20:52:50 UTC

This was specifically an account created for my own fiction, because apparently a lot of people hate my master list, so that made it easy and searchable by tag. My other delicious account is, as far as I can tell, safe and sound.

switchbladesis September 30 2011, 20:57:53 UTC

Diigo is probably the way to go, then. It doesn't do tag bundles, but it seems to do everything else quite nicely. There's an FAQ here if you're interested:

http://www.diigo.com/transition-from-delicious-to-diigo-faq

mollyamory September 30 2011, 20:54:02 UTC

I've switched to Pinboard, which is fan-friendly and very delicious-like. There's a nominal fee that may stop some people, a one-time-only $10. But it's better than diigo, which doesn't let you have public links about sex.

katsheswims September 30 2011, 23:28:07 UTC

When you say sex-do you mean fics that have sex in them (or are pretty much porn)? I have many of those, but I haven't noticed them on private or anything...

mollyamory September 30 2011, 23:42:58 UTC

Not the fic itself, but the link name for it or the tag, maybe even the description - they're "family friendly" in what they display.

imaginarycircus September 30 2011, 21:02:54 UTC

Pinboard is supposed to be awesome and they are listening to fandom/fan friendly.

ratherastory September 30 2011, 21:29:06 UTC

I will check it out, see what it looks like. Thanks!

sinka September 30 2011, 21:21:27 UTC

I'm sorry about your account. I've been lucky but it seems a lot of people has lost their accounts. If they had informed us this could happen people could have exported their bookmarks at least...

Diigo seems the best option, but they limit the space for notes, so you can't put the whole summary of the fic unless it's only two lines. That's a problem for me.

People is saying good things about pinboard, but I haven't tried it yet. I just saw that pinboard doesn't show the number of people who has bookmarked the same link, which was nice to know (to know if a fic was popular and good).

I'm saddened by all this, because now the whole fandom is going to be scattered, and I liked looking at the recent fic bookmarks every day, it was like a long wonderful rec list.

#EDIT - Avos is saying in their blog (http://www.avos.com/) that they are talking with Yahoo "on a solution to retrieve your bookmarks" of those who didn't migrate. Maybe there is some hope still?

ratherastory September 30 2011, 21:28:40 UTC

I saw that. I am unconvinced, as they are saying it's for the people who didn't accept the terms and conditions, which isn't the case for me.

dante_s_hell September 30 2011, 21:32:34 UTC

I went with Pinboard when Delicious first announced they were closing/being sold out (whatever it was) and I've been very happy with it. It has that nifty bookmarklet in the toolbar up top like Delicious used to have. There is a few, but it was worth it. I was able to import from Delicious to Pinboard with no problem. Of course, I'm not sure if you even have that option anymore :-(

I'm really sorry this happened. harrigan really did put a lot of hard work into it. It was awesome!