Of course it's nice to have one's bookmarks organized and tagged, but the big benefit for me is seeing what stuff my friends have tagged as useful. I found so

Of course it's nice to have one's bookmarks organized and tagged, but the big benefit for me is seeing what stuff my friends have tagged as useful. I found so many quick references, interesting tutorials and guides for doing things I was interested in that it was far better than any social news aggregator could have been for me. The /popular page was also a news aggregator of sorts in its own right, except that it was searchable by topic and it skewed heavily towards links worth revisiting. A couple of things lead me to gradually stop using delicious. 1) There was a horrible update for their FF plugin a couple of years back that essentially broke the way middle clicks worked (and the way I preferred to use it). 2) My friends stopped using it so much, and so it became gradually less useful for me as well. I still check out the /popular page for things I'm interested on occasion, but the utility from my friends bookmark feeds is almost gone.