Changes

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>   

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>

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 [[Anthropomorfic]].   

The inevitable result of the Twitter conversations, and some comments in the GoogleDoc itself, was some [[Anthropomorfic]].