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===AVOS Launches New Delicious===

===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>

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:{{Quotation2|I would like to take this opportunity to thank Delicious. I really appreciate the way that you have taken a user friendly, helpful and extremely useful tool and turned it into a convoluted mess that is nearly incomprehensible.

 

:I would like to take this opportunity to thank Delicious. I really appreciate the way that you have taken a user friendly, helpful and extremely useful tool and turned it into a convoluted mess that is nearly incomprehensible.

 

:The part where there is no central location for all my tags is great. The fact that they are not listed in order of size, alphabetically or recent is even better.  

:I thought the way that you completely dissolved all the bundles I have made in favor of the much more confusing ‘stacks’ was inspired. I especially enjoy the part where you can’t create stacks using your own tags, but rather have to bring in the links individually.

The part where there is no central location for all my tags is great. The fact that they are not listed in order of size, alphabetically or recent is even better.  

:I find the “has:____” tag that you added to be particularly helpful, as we internet users would not have noticed this in our own tags without it.  

I thought the way that you completely dissolved all the bundles I have made in favor of the much more confusing ‘stacks’ was inspired. I especially enjoy the part where you can’t create stacks using your own tags, but rather have to bring in the links individually.

:It was very smart of you to get rid of the tagging feature that let us select previous tags after we’d typed the first few letters. It was a silly and gratuitous and it made us lazy. We should have to type out the full tag, it builds character.

I find the “has:____” tag that you added to be particularly helpful, as we internet users would not have noticed this in our own tags without it.  

:In short, thank you for turning our archiving resource into a social networking site. There weren’t nearly enough and I was probably reading too much fanfiction anyway.  

It was very smart of you to get rid of the tagging feature that let us select previous tags after we’d typed the first few letters. It was a silly and gratuitous and it made us lazy. We should have to type out the full tag, it builds character.

:Also, thanks for locking so many people out of their accounts. Those guys were getting pretty annoying.

In short, thank you for turning our archiving resource into a social networking site. There weren’t nearly enough and I was probably reading too much fanfiction anyway.  

: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>

Also, thanks for locking so many people out of their accounts. Those guys were getting pretty annoying.

An interview with Delicious' new owner suggested that AVOS' vision of the site does not--and will not--mesh with fandom's needs.  As fan [[runpunkrun]] said: Our new digital overlord, Chad Hurley, gave an interview in which he complained about how things just got so ''hard'' when people were using Delicious to save ''links'' and ''tags'' and ''information''. So he put a stop to it. <ref>[http://runpunkrun.livejournal.com/320653.html Batman hates it when Web 2.0 gets in the way of his bookmarking.] (Accessed Oct. 11, 2011)</ref>

An interview with Delicious' new owner suggested that AVOS' vision of the site does not--and will not--mesh with fandom's needs.  As fan [[runpunkrun]] said: Our new digital overlord, Chad Hurley, gave an interview in which he complained about how things just got so ''hard'' when people were using Delicious to save ''links'' and ''tags'' and ''information''. So he put a stop to it. <ref>[http://runpunkrun.livejournal.com/320653.html Batman hates it when Web 2.0 gets in the way of his bookmarking.] (Accessed Oct. 11, 2011)</ref>