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migration, pinboard, anthropormorfic
Fans who use '''Delicious''' use it to save fandom-related links or [[meta]] and find [[Rec|recommendations]] for fannish reading material. Some fans maintain multiple accounts; others might throw fannish and non-fannish bookmarks into one account. The following is a list of major fannish uses of the site:
Fans who use '''Delicious''' use it to save fandom-related links or [[meta]] and find [[Rec|recommendations]] for fannish reading material. Some fans maintain multiple accounts; others might throw fannish and non-fannish bookmarks into one account. The following is a list of major fannish uses of the site:
*Bookmarking favorite [[fanworks]] on their personal accounts
*Bookmarking favorite [[fanworks]] on their personal accounts.
*Creating and maintaining their own tags (hours of fun!), using either shared fannish vocabulary or their own system
*Creating and maintaining their own tags (hours of fun!), using either shared fannish vocabulary or their own system.
*Maintaining an easy-to-update [[Recs|rec list]] for self, friends, fandom at large, and/or specific [[communities]] and projects. Delicious is well suited for themed rec list.
*Maintaining an easy-to-update [[Recs|rec list]] for self, friends, fandom at large, and/or specific [[communities]] and projects. Delicious is well suited for themed rec list.
**Keeping track of links for a fandom [[newsletter community]]
**Keeping track of links for a fandom [[newsletter community]].
**Providing a searchable archive for [[Kink Meme]] prompts and fics.
**Providing a searchable archive for [[Kink Meme]] or [[comment fic]] fests prompts and fics.
*Sifting through a trusted reccer's delicious tags for fanworks to consume.
*Sifting through a trusted reccer's delicious tags for fanworks to consume.
*Browsing or subscribing to site tags related to certain fandoms, pairings, genres, or other fannish keywords. The number of users who have bookmarked a given webpage displays prominently and can be an indication of its value; using the "popular" function in particular serves as an automatically generated rec list.
*Browsing or subscribing to site tags related to certain fandoms, pairings, genres, or other fannish keywords. The number of users who have bookmarked a given webpage displays prominently and can be an indication of its value; using the "popular" function in particular serves as an automatically generated rec list.
*Searching for your own name so you can see how many people have bookmarked your posts or stories and what they're saying about you.
*Searching for your own name so you can see how many people have bookmarked your posts or stories and what they're saying about you.
*Other searches?
*Other searches?
Looking at tag clouds also allows statistics-minded fans to analyse fannish trends, as well as discover new content.
Looking at tag clouds or search results also allows statistics-minded fans to analyse fannish trends, as well as discover new content.
===Bookmarks===
===Bookmarks===
According to later reports, there was a possibility of Delicious being sold instead of shut down. [http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html]
According to later reports, there was a possibility of Delicious being sold instead of shut down. [http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delicious.html]
Many fans, and other non-fannish users, began migrating to other sites such as [[Pinboard]] and [[Diigo]] or using them as backups for their bookmarks.<ref>[http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/ Anatomy of a Crushing] Pinboard official blog post which includes site traffic stats for the days after the closure announcement. (Accessed September 30, 2011)</ref>
==Delicious Sale and Renewed Opt-In Policy==
==Delicious Sale and Renewed Opt-In Policy==
Fannish users quickly started discussing the active opt-in policy and ToS, and ideas for [[Archive|archiving]] old delicious accounts that might become inaccessible once the sale and transfer were completed, as well as continuing to urge making backups of delicious bookmarks elsewhere.<ref>[http://deliciouslymad.livejournal.com/19874.html archiving links] post by catechism at deliciouslymad LJ community, 28 April 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)</ref> <ref>[http://anatsuno.livejournal.com/943861.html More Del.icio.us talk] post by [[anatsuno]] urging users to log in to delicious and opt in to the new ToS so their bookmarks remain accessible, 1 May 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)</ref>
Fannish users quickly started discussing the active opt-in policy and ToS, and ideas for [[Archive|archiving]] old delicious accounts that might become inaccessible once the sale and transfer were completed, as well as continuing to urge making backups of delicious bookmarks elsewhere.<ref>[http://deliciouslymad.livejournal.com/19874.html archiving links] post by catechism at deliciouslymad LJ community, 28 April 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)</ref> <ref>[http://anatsuno.livejournal.com/943861.html More Del.icio.us talk] post by [[anatsuno]] urging users to log in to delicious and opt in to the new ToS so their bookmarks remain accessible, 1 May 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)</ref>
When the new Delicious was launched on September 27, it was met with an intensely negative response. <ref>[http://deliciouslymad.livejournal.com/21308.html oh my god] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref> <ref>[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/20110.html?thread=88421006#t88421006 Fail. Fandom. Anon. thread] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref> Immediately, many fans started accounts on other social bookmarking services (notably [[Diigo]] and [[Pinboard]]), people started posting and linking meta,<ref>[http://rageprufrock.dreamwidth.org/47371.html special edition of /report] by [[rageprufrock]] and [[mklutz]].</ref><ref>lian. [http://lian.dreamwidth.org/169561.html quick'n'dirty delicious linkspam]</ref> and one fan set up a google spreadsheet for people to self-report their user names on alternate services.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoR0vrg5fIdOdF9jSWJUcmRBaVpZQ1Z1Q0J2bm1uS1E&hl=en_US#gid=0 the great delicious migration]</ref>
===AVOS Launches New Delicious===
When the new Delicious was launched on September 27, it was met with an intensely negative response. <ref>[http://deliciouslymad.livejournal.com/21308.html oh my god] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref> <ref>[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/20110.html?thread=88421006#t88421006 Fail. Fandom. Anon. thread] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref> Immediately, many fans started accounts on other social bookmarking services (notably Diigo and Pinboard), people started posting and linking meta,<ref>[http://rageprufrock.dreamwidth.org/47371.html special edition of /report] by [[rageprufrock]] and [[mklutz]].</ref><ref>lian. [http://lian.dreamwidth.org/169561.html quick'n'dirty delicious linkspam]</ref> and one fan set up a google spreadsheet for people to self-report their user names on alternate services.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoR0vrg5fIdOdF9jSWJUcmRBaVpZQ1Z1Q0J2bm1uS1E&hl=en_US#gid=0 the great delicious migration]</ref>
One [[Tumblr]] user addressed [[TPTB]] at Delicious:
One [[Tumblr]] user addressed [[TPTB]] at Delicious:
:You are an inpiration to websites everywhere. <ref>[http://spiritsflame.tumblr.com/post/10731883440/personally-i-love-the-new-delicious-really Personally, I love the new Delicious. Really.] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref>
:You are an inpiration to websites everywhere. <ref>[http://spiritsflame.tumblr.com/post/10731883440/personally-i-love-the-new-delicious-really Personally, I love the new Delicious. Really.] (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)</ref>
The initial version of AVOS Delicious did not include tag bundles. Many kink meme, comment fic sites and newsletter communities relied on the bundles to organize the tags for creating or organizing their content. Some communities immediately switched to other sites, even though they did not offer the tag bundle feature either, often because other features or functionality was missing.
Many newsletters that used Delicious to collate their links were forced to hand-code or partially hand-code their posts, putting pressure on fans who had been relying on automation to make a labour intensive job easy enough to be handled by a few volunteers. The Delicious RSS feeds were non-functional for several days, and even though AVOS announced they were still supporting the old APIs, many scripts did not work after the re-launch. Some newsletter communities switched immediately to Pinboard since its API is very similar to the old Delicious one.<ref>[https://pinboard.in/howto/#api Pinboard How To (API)] (Accessed September 30, 2011)</ref>
Fannish interest in general focused on Diigo and Pinboard as alternatives. The quick and positive interest by the Pinboard owner, Maciej Ceglowski, in fannish users led to the creation of a collaborative GoogleDoc spec request for features he could implement to make Pinboard more attractive to fans.<ref>[http://anatsuno.dreamwidth.org/974371.html Pinboard feature request - wishlist!] (Accessed September 30, 2011)</ref> The result was a document he described in a Tweet: "Watching that epic Google doc grow a table of contents. Soon it will acquire robotic exoskeleton and begin roaming the earth"<ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/Pinboard/status/119492574028365824 Tweet from Pinboard official twitter] on September 29, 2011. (Accessed September 30, 2011)</ref>
The inevitable result of the Twitter conversations, and some comments in the GoogleDoc itself, was some [[Anthropormorfic]]. [http://archiveofourown.org/works/258626 The Morning After] by [[ambyr]] pairs Fandom/Pinboard and leaves Delicious out in the cold with Diigo.
==Resources==
==Resources==