Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2018: Week 44

Delicious was a social bookmarking service that allowed users to save, tag, manage and share bookmarks from a centralized source. A significant aspect of the site was that, like many Web 2.0 sites, its tags were user-generated, non-hierarchical, and uncontrolled. Users created and applied their own tags in one step, and they could apply as many tags as they liked to each bookmark.

In the mid to late 00s, Delicious was probably the most popular social bookmarking service, both among fanfic fans and everyone else. However, Delicious's reign ended in September 2011 when the new company that had bought it relaunched the site with an unfinished redesign. Even after functionality was restored, the redesign made Delicious less useful to many of its former users.

In 2017, Delicious was bought by Pinboard.