Pioneering Link-Sharing Site Del.icio.us Shuts Down (thenextweb.com) 55
Long-time Slashdot reader brentlaminack writes:
One of the first and best social bookmarking platforms, Del.icio.us has changed hands about four times, one was to Yahoo for >$15M. Its most recent relaunch was over a year back, which was their last blog entry. Now images are broken, little "advertisement" blocks show up with no advertisements, things seem moribund. What's the deal?
The Next Web reports: It's the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us. After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won't be able to save any new bookmarks. Del.icio.us pioneered the social bookmarking paradigm. Its influence can be seen everywhere, from Reddit to Twitter...
After del.icio.us was acquired by AVOS Systems in 2011, users fled to Pinboard in droves over complaints AVOS was fundamentally changing the makeup of the site. By purchasing del.icio.us, Pinboard is able to coax the few remaining del.icio.us users to jump ship. Depending on how much Pinboard paid for the site, how many users remain, and how many users Pinboard is able to convert, this could be a financially lucrative move. A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum.
A late update to the article includes a quote from Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski. "In a statement, he said 'I am the greatest.' Ceglowski also confirmed the purchase price for del.icio.us, which was $35,000."
The Next Web reports: It's the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us. After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won't be able to save any new bookmarks. Del.icio.us pioneered the social bookmarking paradigm. Its influence can be seen everywhere, from Reddit to Twitter...
After del.icio.us was acquired by AVOS Systems in 2011, users fled to Pinboard in droves over complaints AVOS was fundamentally changing the makeup of the site. By purchasing del.icio.us, Pinboard is able to coax the few remaining del.icio.us users to jump ship. Depending on how much Pinboard paid for the site, how many users remain, and how many users Pinboard is able to convert, this could be a financially lucrative move. A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum.
A late update to the article includes a quote from Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski. "In a statement, he said 'I am the greatest.' Ceglowski also confirmed the purchase price for del.icio.us, which was $35,000."
I don't believe it (Score:2, Funny)
I forgot this existed (Score:1)
Poorly defined business model leads to (Score:1)
Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Link-sharing sites are the scourge of search results. The worst ones like Pinterest which actually "demand" that you make an account to view their content? They have to shut down.
Fucking hate Pinterest (Score:5, Informative)
the shit spams good image search and 1/2 of the images lead to Pinterest. Its like using search back in the mid 2000's with SEO companies fucking up the search results.
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Isn't there a google search setting to ignore certain sites permanently?
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No bookmark export function (Score:4, Informative)
There is supposedly a bookmarks export function in delicious, but
"We're sorry, but due to heavy load on our database we are no longer able to offer an export function. Our engineers are working on this and we will restore it as soon as possible."
They've been "working on this" for about 6 months now. In other words the message is BS by unscrupulous site owners.
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The purchase price wasn't enough to fund one engineer.
What the hell makes you think they can afford anything in the way of maintenance, while the site is even still on the Internet.
The lie, if anything, is the word "engineers". Who's paying those people, and what with? Because it sure wasn't the purchase price.
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It's a little awkward, but follow the scraping instructions found here:
https://ringo.de-smet.name/201... [de-smet.name]
Requires you to:
1) use Chrome
2) log in to your Delicious account (unless you don't have any private bookmarks)
3) follow some short instructions
4) wait
5) ???
6) profit.
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Of course, and rightly so! Why in the world would we tax them for losing money? Wait, why did you even comment. Wait... why I am feeding a troll?
Dice anyone? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's one of many sites that have sadly suffered the same fate.
Looking at you Twitch, Slashdot Beta. Let this be a warning, don't piss off your users with stupid UI changes. There's nothing wrong with simplicity.
No good (Score:2)
That's Dis.gust.ing
Pinboard subscription (Score:2)
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Admittedly, in our modern post-Information Scarcity era, a quick google search is usually the first step towards answering a question... but if one has a body of knowledge one regularly visits, there is a place for having one's own curated collection,
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Search results (for generic terms) are not repeatable. Web content evolves, as do search ranking algorithms, as well as google's knowledge about you.
So if I find something that is an above average quality reference on something or example of something, I want to preserve a link to that exact resource on the web, not to some average-quality page that's kind of like it.
Good (Score:3)
Fu.cki.ng stu.pid na.me.
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I still remember when reddit was simply a hole in the wall. Now they are the new fad like myspace, digg, etc. Trust me, in 10 years nobody will know what the fuck you mean when you say "reddit". The site is simply terrible.
Agreed.
with profit no human should have but as a whole.
You don't get to decide what's too little or too much. That's not how this works at all.
Slashdot will still be trucking along.
I'm honestly shocked they haven't crashed and burned already.
"A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum." (Score:2)
This is nonsense. There's no such thing as a "Pinboard subscription". You pay a one-off fee to sign-up.
However, the more people who sign-up, the higher the sign-up fee gets.
I think I paid about $5 for mine back in the day and haven't paid a cent since.
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Not anymore. It's a recurring fee now. From their signup page (https://pinboard.in/signup/ )
Pinboard charges $11 per year for a regular account, or $25 per year for archiving and full-text search
Two questions... (Score:2)
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1. Dunno.
2. Diigo.
3. Dung dung dung! (profit!)
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One seems to be Pocket at https://getpocket.com/ [getpocket.com]
Of bookmen and mice (Score:1)
It was all goofing around, in the end, to hope for branching tubes where no Gopher would get lost. Veronica tried to help, poorly, but at least, hey, she was no Archie! Then a Mosaic of possibilities spread wide, and some cowboys tried to rein in all the cattle, Yahooing it in minuscule pens to make every stick count. That is, 'till it was clear no wall was going to dam *that* Netscaping herd, so they rather searched from a box--ExcitedLy'cos the Altavista gave them the Jeeves. But townsfolk are not so