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Media Killed the Bookmarking Star: del.icio.us traffic falls below StumbleUpon, Reddit

• wmeredith 19y ago
  I think their god-awful name had at least a little to do with it.
• zach 19y ago
  The participation threshold is too high. I was just talking to a former heavy del.icio.us user who only uses their front page now. Users always seem to prefer lower-friction services even if they're not as rich in content.
• henning 19y ago
  I just have a "to read" page in my personal wiki where I can copy and paste a link in about 5 seconds, and I don't need to type a title. I have fulltext search which makes up for the loss of tagging. And plus I don't need to type a title.
• joshwa 19y ago
  The problem with all these web analytics is that they usually fail to take into account API usage-- I wonder what percentage of the del.icio.us userbase uses the FF extension or other widgets to use the service?
• apgwoz 19y ago
  No. Not being able to find stuff you previously saved quickly is what killed it (at least del.icio.us). Tags, at least for me, simply aren't good enough.