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Hmm... So I log in and the first obvious difference is that I can see exactly four bookmarks on the screen at once. And if I scroll I see that there are only

Hmm... So I log in and the first obvious difference is that I can see exactly four bookmarks on the screen at once. And if I scroll I see that there are only 10 per page. Don't you think that's a bit sparse? I'm not sure what use case the new owners think most people are on the site for, but for me it's to save bookmarks and quickly find them again. I used to have a nice tall list that I could scan down quickly. So I click a tag off the sidebar to narrow things down a bit. Nine Mississippi. Ten Mississippi, and I came back here to update my comment. I can see the other tab still spinning. Searching came back fast enough, but really, I don't want to have to type keywords in to find links that a few days ago were in a nice tight list on a single screen. In all, this seems like a huge step backward. Beyond that, the homepage seems to have changed. I've never used the homepage, so I can't comment on whether that's an improvement or not. Anybody know what the homepage is supposed to be for? Looking at other people's bookmarks?

joelanman 15y ago
Looking at other people's bookmarks is one of the main ways I use Delicious: either by searching (I find it much better than google for certain things, eg. finding popular software) or using the Popular page to see what's new (normally pretty weighted towards web-dev on Delicious, but you can browse tags for other topics).
dongsheng 15y ago
It was the popular links, now, the first tab became popular stacks... It looks like a simplified delicious.com, a lot of features haven't been implemented. We probably should give them a bit more time. One thing I hated most is the spaces between entries and spaces between blocks, it makes the page really fat.
alexdong 15y ago
As the cofounder of trunk.ly and a direct competitor to delicious, I think this new version is one step forward, two steps back. Social bookmarking is one of the few much under-appreciated services. It offers much longer life-time-value to its users. There are lots of data one can mine. Many needs to satisfy. Chad and Chen's entry definitely revitalize this market. Their "bringing social bookmarking to consumers" is spot on. This is a huge step forward. Over time, I'm sure the service will become better as long as they keep improving it. Two steps back: 1) The main way to get links into delicious is still via bookmarklet. Given the high ratio of people using facebook, twitter, why should I manually bookmark a link if I have already retweeted it? Or liked it in my little walled garden? Trunk.ly provides 10+ connectors into popular social networks. Setup once. Links will start coming in automatically. 2) Lack of a solid social search. Playlist for the web is a great concept but will your interior "design" tag means the same to my software "design" tag? Tagging as a device to build taxonomy starts to collapse when people uses same tag for difference things. Quora solves this problem quite well by labouring out a taxonomy of its own. Trunk.ly provides a search interface so essentially you have your own google for your links as well as your friends. For example, want to search for stunning infrared photography images? This is what you get from trunk.ly: http://trunk.ly/?q=infrared+photography http://trunk.ly/?q=infrared+photography This is from delicious: http://delicious.com/search?p=infrared+photography http://delicious.com/search?p=infrared+photography

joelanman 15y ago

Looking at other people's bookmarks is one of the main ways I use Delicious: either by searching (I find it much better than google for certain things, eg. finding popular software) or using the Popular page to see what's new (normally pretty weighted towards web-dev on Delicious, but you can browse tags for other topics).

dongsheng 15y ago

It was the popular links, now, the first tab became popular stacks... It looks like a simplified delicious.com, a lot of features haven't been implemented. We probably should give them a bit more time. One thing I hated most is the spaces between entries and spaces between blocks, it makes the page really fat.

alexdong 15y ago

As the cofounder of trunk.ly and a direct competitor to delicious, I think this new version is one step forward, two steps back. Social bookmarking is one of the few much under-appreciated services. It offers much longer life-time-value to its users. There are lots of data one can mine. Many needs to satisfy. Chad and Chen's entry definitely revitalize this market. Their "bringing social bookmarking to consumers" is spot on. This is a huge step forward. Over time, I'm sure the service will become better as long as they keep improving it. Two steps back: 1) The main way to get links into delicious is still via bookmarklet. Given the high ratio of people using facebook, twitter, why should I manually bookmark a link if I have already retweeted it? Or liked it in my little walled garden? Trunk.ly provides 10+ connectors into popular social networks. Setup once. Links will start coming in automatically. 2) Lack of a solid social search. Playlist for the web is a great concept but will your interior "design" tag means the same to my software "design" tag? Tagging as a device to build taxonomy starts to collapse when people uses same tag for difference things. Quora solves this problem quite well by labouring out a taxonomy of its own. Trunk.ly provides a search interface so essentially you have your own google for your links as well as your friends. For example, want to search for stunning infrared photography images? This is what you get from trunk.ly: http://trunk.ly/?q=infrared+photography http://trunk.ly/?q=infrared+photography This is from delicious: http://delicious.com/search?p=infrared+photography http://delicious.com/search?p=infrared+photography