cleolinda

Yahoo is shutting down Delicious.com, the bookmark storing/sharing service.

NO

I NEED IT TO LIVE

THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER

I AM KIND OF NOT EVEN KIDDING

maybe a little

This is what I've used to tag and organize my novel and Annotated Fifteen Minutes research. If I need to pull up, say, all my research from a particular website about a particular topic, I put in the tags "victorian-london-org/opium." If I needed all the Harry Potter notes about only the actors--same process. I have 5796 bookmarks saved and tagged. And consider this: I would have lost all of them when Betsy 2.0 died if I hadn't had them on Delicious.

I just. I don't even know. This is a major tool for me as a writer. I don't even know how to handle this. If Delicious can be closed, what else could be shut down? I just--I need this to live, Yahoo. Go to hell.

Where do we go now? I keep hearing about a Diigo something or other. Something. brb, exporting all my shit.

P.S. Unlike Delicious, however, Morgan Freeman is not dead.

ETA: So far, I'm hearing three alternatives: Diigo (which will import from Delicious), Xmarks (which will import from Delicious), and Pinboard (which costs $7 and I'm not sure if it imports existing bookmarks, but people who do use it seem to love it). (By the way, these sites are slow at the moment because all the Delicious refugees are panicking.) I will probably try at least two of them, if only to get my current bookmarks backed up into the cloud again.

I know of only one way to properly express my complete and total chagrin.

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ailelie

I made a short list of five alternatives: http://ailelie.dreamwidth.org/183541.html Not horribly in-depth, but there are some options at least.

wandererriha

I would not suggest Xmarks because they are ALSO SHUTTING DOWN in January.

What's up with that? :P

cleolinda

What? I heard something about Lastpass or whoever acquiring them.

branchandroot

Yes, LastPass has actually already acquired them. You can see the logo stamp on their front page now. Xmarks is still alive.

Xmarks is alive and kicking. The userbase is active enough and the developers involved enough that everything worked out. They've been acquired by Lastpass, and are also offering a premium account level (a lot of people pledged to pay for the service if it stopped being free. instead they added the premium level for only $12/yr and provided a few extra features that are more cool than necessary and, in my opinion, are kinda like a big thanks to those who follow through on their pledge).

However, I still wouldn't rec xmarks as the delicious import only currently works for your most 100 most recent links. After that you have to export from delicious, import to your browser, and sync with xmarks. While this isn't difficult, many people lose their tags in the process due to different apis or something like that.

If preserving your tags is less important, or if you're willing to re-tag everything (xmarks does support tags, in addition to folders) (or if xmarks fixes the api to work for more than 100 links), then I rec xmarks all the way. It is a fantastic service.