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Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?
by gms 16y ago
Delicious is a black hole for me. I have 95 bookmarks, and once something is bookmarked with it, I never visit it later. Is this unique to me?
- kenjackson 16y agoDelicious is my bookmarking mechanism. I use it probably 20 times per day. Bummer about this.
- 100k 16y agoI use mine to keep track of tech links mostly. I do refer back when I need to find something I know I've bookmarked, especially if I can't remember how to Google for it.
- GrooveStomp 16y agoI find this happening to myself as well. I think it's the nature of tags vs a more visual paradigm.
- kingsidharth 16y agoSame here. Instapaper is another one but I visit it once in a blue moon.
- tlack 16y agoI was in the same group as you guys but lately I've started using Instapaper's Kindle export feature to read long articles (NYT, etc) on my Kindle. It's a really good experience. Try it out.
- gms 16y agoThere are a few starting points for solving the black hole problem. It's amazing how much Yahoo allowed it to atrophy.
- petercooper 16y agoI have 5919 bookmarks in there. But.. of course, it's just structured data, I could import it to other services and use it fine. The real loss here is how you can use it to analyze other people's bookmarks. Almost every page of any merit is tagged and in their system, just because Delicious is/was the biggest game in town. Wanna find HN links about Java? Try http://www.delicious.com/tag/hn+java http://www.delicious.com/tag/hn+java .. want a tutorial about making a game in Ruby? http://www.delicious.com/tag/ruby+tutorial+game http://www.delicious.com/tag/ruby+tutorial+game .. This is absurdly useful even though so few people know about it. It's been my secret weapon for 6 years now because I've always been able to find anything I could even partially remember just by coming up with the tags that might describe it :-(
- danenania 16y agoDelicious as a search engine is far superior to google for many types of content.
- aheilbut 16y agoThe other loss is how you can use it to discover other people interested in the same incredibly esoteric things as you. It was a like an asynchronous, organized version of twitter, 3? years early.