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In the old, good days of del.icio.us social aspect was really robust. People were putting lots of stuff online. It was easy for me to find an academic or author
by gala8y 4y ago
In the old, good days of del.icio.us social aspect was really robust. People were putting lots of stuff online. It was easy for me to find an academic or author I liked and dig through her bookmarks to my delight and betterment. It was still just the old good internet with real people online, sharing really interesting stuff. I would also post lots of stuff and we used sharing features with friends a lot (you could actually add #for:username).
I would be happy to have access to some delicious dumps, I know people made them before delicious went down.
- joshu 4y agoI doubt it. Delicious was way, way bigger than anyone realized, and there were a ton of throttling protections in there…
- gala8y 4y agoPeople were starting to crawl it. Surely it was huge, they were probably crawling bits they were interested in. I am absolutely positive there were people trying to crawl a lot. It was a panic of kind, like with geocities. Still, would love to see what was preserved.
- joshu 4y agoI doubt they got very far. Most of the pages cut off very early since humans never went more than a page or two in. Maybe the new version wasn’t as good but when I left it wasn’t easy. Any at scale scraping was easy to detect since the site was so resource impoverished that it would have a performance impact.
- svieira 4y agoActually Maciej has the entire dump if I'm not mistaken - https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
- gala8y 4y agoWell, no other way, but atm it is not exactly city center property close to the Agora. I wonder how many of these links are still alive, anyway. I have enormous nostalgia for Del.icio.us that @joshu created.