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Acquired in 2005 with 300k users. Had 4m users and maybe 1m MAU in early 2007 before the transition to the v2 site. Yahoo management did a huge amount of work
by joshu 9y ago
Acquired in 2005 with 300k users. Had 4m users and maybe 1m MAU in early 2007 before the transition to the v2 site.
Yahoo management did a huge amount of work to kill momentum.
1) We were forced to migrate to PHP. We were not allowed to have ops support until this was complete.
2) We inherited the Yahoo Photos team that brought a backend that they had written for that platform. They estimated it would take six months to migrate delicious to that new platform. It took 2+ years.
3) We were denied having actual access to VESPA and had to reuse MyWeb's backend instead, which was designed for a different feature set.
4) Almost all the staff were placed on Yahoo Answers anyway, which ended up dying of its own accord anyway.
- gmiller123456 9y agoThat's not likely what caused its decline. I used Delicious for quite a while, and my reduction in use had nothing to do with what it used on the backend. I think it served its purpose as a social bookmarking site pretty well for the time it lasted. But it finally started its decline likely due to old fashioned competition. Google pretty much made the need for personal bookmarks obsolete, and sites like Digg and Reddit were a much better method of sharing links with curated lists and discussions.
- joshu 9y agoIt lost momentum - no features or anything added for three years. A large number of people use computers as memory tools. Trello, Evernote, Pinterest, etc. - Google doesn't seem to be particularly relevant. Perhaps you mistake your usage pattern for everyone's? Neither Digg nor Reddit made a way to share curated lists, so no clue what you are talking about there.