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|name=Delicious, Del.icio.us (older variant)

|name=Delicious, older variants are: del.icio.us and Del.icio.us

|dates=2003-2011 (see article)

|dates=2003-2011 (see article)

|type=social bookmarking

|type=social bookmarking

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'''Delicious''' is a social [[bookmarking]] service that allows users to save, tag, manage and share [[bookmarks]] from a centralized source. A significant aspect of the site is that, like many Web 2.0 sites, its tags are user-generated, non-hierarchical, and uncontrolled. Users create and apply their own tags in one step, and they can apply as many tags as they like to each bookmark.  

'''Delicious''' was a social [[bookmarking]] service that allows 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]].

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]].

Note that in 2016, the website's URL reverted to the old del.icio.us.

Note that in 2016, the website's URL reverted to the old del.icio.us.

==Fannish Uses of Delicious==

==Fannish Uses of Delicious==

Fans who use '''Delicious''' use it to save fandom-related links or [[meta]] (in their own Delicious accounts) and locate [[Rec|recommendations]] for fannish reading material or [[Searching for Fanworks on the Internet|find fanworks that might interest them]] (often using others' delicious accounts). Some fans maintain multiple accounts; others might throw fannish and non-fannish bookmarks into one account.  

Fans who used '''Delicious''' used it to save fandom-related links or [[meta]] (in their own Delicious accounts) and locate [[Rec|recommendations]] for fannish reading material or [[Searching for Fanworks on the Internet|find fanworks that might interest them]] (often using others' delicious accounts). Some fans maintained multiple accounts; others would throw fannish and non-fannish bookmarks into one account.  

The following is a list of major fannish uses of the site:<ref>Note: This list describes fannish use before the September 2011 relaunch. Changes in interface and functionality following the relaunch may hinder or make impossible some of the items listed.</ref>

The following is a list of major fannish uses of the site:<ref>Note: This list describes fannish use before the September 2011 relaunch. Changes in interface and functionality following the relaunch may hinder or make impossible some of the items listed.</ref>

*Other searches?

*Other searches?

Looking at tag clouds or search results also allows statistics-minded fans to analyse fannish trends, as well as discover new content.

Looking at tag clouds or search results also allowed statistics-minded fans to analyse fannish trends, as well as discover new content.

===Bookmarks===  

===Bookmarks===  

Users can see their own [[bookmarks]], their tags, notes and how many other people have bookmarked the same website. Tags can be collected in ''bundles''; this allows a user to organize tags in groups such as "author" or "[[pairing]]".<ref>Ironically, the official [[Delicious]] blog celebrated fandom's use of Delicious tag bundles in a 2013 post, two years after fandom had purportedly left Delicious.[https://twitter.com/Delicious/status/346732608308277248] Bundle functionality had been lost after the relaunch and was recreated some time later. See [http://blog.delicious.com/2013/06/community-spotlight-fandom/ Community Spotlight: Fandom!], Posted on June 17, 2013 by jessie.</ref>  

Users could see their own [[bookmarks]], their tags, notes and how many other people had bookmarked the same website. Tags could be collected in ''bundles'' which  allowed a user to organize tags in groups such as "author" or "[[pairing]]".<ref>

 

Ironically, the official [[Delicious]] blog celebrated fandom's use of Delicious tag bundles in a 2013 post, two years after fandom had purportedly left Delicious.[https://twitter.com/Delicious/status/346732608308277248] Bundle functionality had been lost after the relaunch and was recreated some time later. See [http://blog.delicious.com/2013/06/community-spotlight-fandom/ Community Spotlight: Fandom!], Posted on June 17, 2013 by jessie.</ref>  

The notes field is especially useful for fans using Delicious for rec lists or newsletters.

The notes field was especially useful for fans using Delicious for rec lists or newsletters.

===Tagging===

===Tagging===

Many fans name their [[tags]] to correspond to typical fanwork [[Header|metadata]] such as author, [[fandom]], [[rating]], [[genre]], character, pairing, and sometimes even length or status (complete or [[WIP]]) will be added to a bookmark.  These naming conventions in turn make it easier for other fans to find fanworks by tag on Delicious. For example, a search for "fanfic" will bring up all recently bookmarked pages tagged with that term: http://delicious.com/tag/fanfic

Many fans named their [[tags]] to correspond to typical fanwork [[Header|metadata]] such as author, [[fandom]], [[rating]], [[genre]], character, pairing, and sometimes even length or status (complete or [[WIP]]) will be added to a bookmark.  These naming conventions in turn made it easier for other fans to find fanworks by tag on Delicious. For example, a search for "fanfic" would bring up all recently bookmarked pages tagged with that term: http://delicious.com/tag/fanfic

Some users add punctuation or other characters, often just to sort their tags alphabetically. Because Delicious tags were until the September 2011 relaunch space-separated, rather than comma-separated, tags composed of phrases are also likely to contain underscores (_) or periods (.). Atypical tags are more difficult to search on, but can be useful if the user is browsing only the reccer's account.

Some users added punctuation or other characters, often just to sort their tags alphabetically. Because Delicious tags were until the September 2011 relaunch space-separated, rather than comma-separated, tags composed of phrases are also likely to contain underscores (_) or periods (.). Atypical tags were more difficult to search on, but that could be useful if the user was browsing only the reccer's account.

===Network===

===Network===

Users can add other users to their "Network" &mdash; similar to a [[Friends List]] on [[LiveJournal]]. The network tab will then show all sites recently bookmarked by people from their network.

Users could add other users to their "Network" &mdash; similar to a [[Friends List]] on [[LiveJournal]]. The network tab would then show all sites recently bookmarked by people from their network.

===Subscriptions===

===Subscriptions===

The Network is a good way to find new content, but Subscriptions allow a broader scope. A user may subscribe to a certain tag, such as "fanfiction", and will then see all recently bookmarked websites tagged with that term.

The Network was a good way to find new content, but Subscriptions allowed a broader scope. A user could subscribe to a certain tag, such as "fanfiction", and would then see all recently bookmarked websites tagged with that term.

==Delicious Closure Scare==

==Delicious Closure Scare==