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Title: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: idolminds on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 04:32:04 PM

Bummer (http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/is-yahoo-shutting-down-del-icio-us/)

I didn't have very many bookmarks on there, so I'm not really put out any. But what I used it for was a place to dump download links so when I was at a library/bookstore I could just go there and have a list of things I wanted to download. With the Shareaholic addon for Firefox it was also super easy for me to add links to the list.

So now I have to come up with some alternative. Grumble...

If you used it, might be a good idea to export (https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export) your links.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: Quemaqua on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 05:22:59 PM

Never did use it.  Seemed neat, though.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: iPPi on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 05:27:30 PM

Oh noes!

I too have never used it.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: scottws on Thursday, December 16, 2010, 07:20:38 PM

I always saw the little "del.icio.us" links on blog sites, but I never really bothered to find out what it was about.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: Cools! on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 11:17:04 AM

I liked the idea but never ended up using it. I'm surprised they killed it this fast.

I had a similar idea back when I was in college, guess with delicious dead now I can bring back that project and use it for myself. :)

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 08:12:08 PM

I wish Digg would shut down.  That place has turned into a spaming trollfest. 

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 10:18:43 PM

I moved to Reddit after everything went down. I'm glad I did.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: Cools! on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 10:31:01 PM

I check out Hacker News from time to time, but overall I'm moved to Twitter as a source of news.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: Cools! on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 10:36:45 PM

And speaking of things that should shutdown: Foursquare.

Title: Re: Delicious is shutting down
Post by: gpw11 on Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 12:13:09 AM

I concur about Foursquare....and will add Twitter.


I should check out Reddit, becuause Digg seriously is shit now. I don't even think the changes ruined it; the people being babies about the changes did.