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Del.icio.us and Tumblr is also acquired and killed by Yahoo. Also Geocities, like it's hard to serve some static files.
by roadbeats 10y ago
Del.icio.us and Tumblr is also acquired and killed by Yahoo. Also Geocities, like it's hard to serve some static files.
- dom0 10y agoLast time I checked Tumblr was still well and alive with two disjunct communities (tumblr-bullshit-feminism and porn curation).
- eat_veggies 10y agoThey also annexed deviant art's fan art/fanfiction community for tv shows and books.
- rubayeet 10y agoDel.icio.us was sold to AVOS systems. It changed hand a couple of more times and now owned by an entity called 'Delicious Media'. In its current state, it is almost non-functional. The bookmarklet for tagging links does not work, API and RSS feed are deprecated. I knew it was time to get out when I found the data export function to be broken. I wrote a scraper[1] to get my data out and export to some other service. [1] https://gist.github.com/rubayeet/a5c25458986ddecafd5e569866cfd171 https://gist.github.com/rubayeet/a5c25458986ddecafd5e569866c...
- dv_dt 10y agoDo any bookmarklets for tagging links work anywhere? It seems like most services simple javascript bookmarklets were shut out by increasing security? At least I know the bookmarklet that I used for pinboard became nonfunctional in Firefox then Chrome for example.
- ghaff 10y agoI still use pinboard. Still works fine for me modulo bitrot.
- dv_dt 10y agoI absolutely still use pinboard, just not it's bookmarklet.
- Deimorz 10y agoThe pinboard bookmarklet seems to work for me in Firefox on almost every site except Github (where the CSP blocks it).
- dv_dt 10y agoWell huh, so it does. Some maybe it was just a temporary gap that I fell into..
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- bigbugbag 10y agoThe demise of del.icio.us was expected the instant they sold out, but the good news is that the service was useful so it gave rise to shaarli[1]. [1]: https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
- SN76477 10y agoDon't forget that they killed Pipes.
- godzillabrennus 10y agoI still remember when they killed Konfabulator.
- coralreef 10y agoI wouldn't say Yahoo killed Tumblr. At the time of acquisition, Tumblr's growth was flattening. It also had a poor transition into mobile. I don't recall of Yahoo forcing any UX or integration objectives on Tumblr, other than to start monetizing which eventually included the use of Yahoo media sales agents. Tumblr's product simply didn't keep up in the race for attention.
- roadbeats 10y agoTumblr isn't innovating since they bought it. That's why it can't compete, because nothing Yahoo owns can compete.
- bigbugbag 10y agoYahoo filtered out "adult" content, this is a dead giveaway that it at least attempted to kill tumblr.
- coralreef 10y agoNot true, that had nothing to do with Yahoo. If you want to be on the mobile app stores, you have to filter adult content availability out of your app. Tumblr always had a permissive approach to NSFW content, you just had to flag your blog as such so it didn't turn up in Tumblr search reuslts. Src: https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult-content https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Adult...