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Do people still use Delicious? I thought everybody left after the horrendous redesign... In any case, Pinboard.in is all around better, so I guess the redesi

Do people still use Delicious? I thought everybody left after the horrendous redesign... In any case, Pinboard.in is all around better, so I guess the redesign had it's upside.

AbhishekBiswal 13y ago
Do people still use *Social bookmarking? Well, for most of the people using the web, Facebook is the common source of news / links / any hot discussion going on anywhere on the internet. Twitter too, but I have read somewhere that generally, Facebook is the only source nowadays.
- parktheredcar 13y ago
  What would HN, Reddit, etc be classified as if not social bookmarking?
  - twic 13y ago
    I certainly see Delicious and HN as being in the same landscape, but different. Delicious has the concept of friends, so there is a social network aspect to it. HN has comments, so there is a forum aspect to it. I don't have many friends on Delicious, and no friends with really similar interests, so the social network aspect is not worth much to me. HN has lots of reasonably bright and knowledgeable users, so the comments are worth something to me. It's the classic private vs public dichotomy in social networks. If Delicious could somehow mix in some of the forum aspect that HN has, it could become enormously valuable to me. If it let me read and participate in discussions like HN, but focused on the areas i am specifically interested in (more Rust, less Bitcoin), it would replace HN in an instant.
  - mason55 13y ago
    Very crappy social bookmarking maybe. Without tags it's really tough to go back and find anything especially cause 99%+ of the posts are not of interest to me. With delicio.us I just put a bunch of tags on everything I bookmark and then it's super easy to go back and find later.
  - joshu 13y ago
    They're forums. They aren't social bookmarking.
- a3n 13y ago
  I use pinboard for private bookmarking. In fact that's one of the improvements of pinboard over delicious. At the time I used delicious I always felt that I had to work to keep my bookmarks private. I set my privacy setting once at pinboard and I never have to think about it. For me, pinboard is bookmarks that I don't have to synch, and have automatically available at home, work or wherever.
- Naga 13y ago
  Pinterest is an extremely popular site for doing just that.
ljoshua 13y ago
I still use Delicious and love it. Just a very convenient way to save sites that I might want to refer back to in the future. The killer feature is tagging/descriptions/searching that metadata.

Do people still use Delicious? I thought everybody left after the horrendous redesign... In any case, Pinboard.in is all around better, so I guess the redesign had it's upside.

AbhishekBiswal 13y ago

Do people still use *Social bookmarking? Well, for most of the people using the web, Facebook is the common source of news / links / any hot discussion going on anywhere on the internet. Twitter too, but I have read somewhere that generally, Facebook is the only source nowadays.

parktheredcar 13y ago
What would HN, Reddit, etc be classified as if not social bookmarking?
- twic 13y ago
  I certainly see Delicious and HN as being in the same landscape, but different. Delicious has the concept of friends, so there is a social network aspect to it. HN has comments, so there is a forum aspect to it. I don't have many friends on Delicious, and no friends with really similar interests, so the social network aspect is not worth much to me. HN has lots of reasonably bright and knowledgeable users, so the comments are worth something to me. It's the classic private vs public dichotomy in social networks. If Delicious could somehow mix in some of the forum aspect that HN has, it could become enormously valuable to me. If it let me read and participate in discussions like HN, but focused on the areas i am specifically interested in (more Rust, less Bitcoin), it would replace HN in an instant.
- mason55 13y ago
  Very crappy social bookmarking maybe. Without tags it's really tough to go back and find anything especially cause 99%+ of the posts are not of interest to me. With delicio.us I just put a bunch of tags on everything I bookmark and then it's super easy to go back and find later.
- joshu 13y ago
  They're forums. They aren't social bookmarking.
a3n 13y ago
I use pinboard for private bookmarking. In fact that's one of the improvements of pinboard over delicious. At the time I used delicious I always felt that I had to work to keep my bookmarks private. I set my privacy setting once at pinboard and I never have to think about it. For me, pinboard is bookmarks that I don't have to synch, and have automatically available at home, work or wherever.
Naga 13y ago
Pinterest is an extremely popular site for doing just that.

ljoshua 13y ago

I still use Delicious and love it. Just a very convenient way to save sites that I might want to refer back to in the future. The killer feature is tagging/descriptions/searching that metadata.