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Can someone explain to me what the big deal is about del.icio.us and why it's so horrible that Yahoo is "sunsetting" it? I used it briefly as part of a project I was doing for work a couple of years ago, so it's not that I don't know what it does, I just don't get what's so wonderful about it. (It would seem that, like Facebook, I am not in need of the service it provides.)

I read some comments on a blog post about it which were like "noooo where will I keep all my fic bookmarks??" and I was like um, in "faves" lists in your account on whatever fic site? Or in bookmarks in your browser if it doesn't have that function or you can't get an account? (aside peeve: I wish there were a way for me to get a skyehawke account so I could fave things. I understand invite-only as quality control, but...) And "nooo how will I find fic?" really didn't make sense to me - I found del.icio.us very awkward as a discovery tool and exploring communities on LJ has probably been the best-results method for me on that (maybe other fandoms operate very differently to Harry Potter, I dunno).

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Gah! I just wrote a lovely long comment and then my phone crashed. Let's try again...

Anyway, the gist was: I use Delicious to bookmark not only fic but all kinds of other things, like recipes and articles and craft resources. And not everything I bookmark has the option to favourite on the site (e.g. when I did my MSc research I bookmarked stuff that I then used as my corpus). And then, when I come back to my bookmarks later it's often from a different computer (I often bookmark interesting-looking fic if it shows up on my flist while I'm at work, then read it on my phone later when I'm not at work). So overall it's much easier to have everything in one place I can access from anywhere.

Either way, Delicious is now claiming it isn't closing after all, so. I hope this is true. :/

(Sorry for any typos btw - sending this from my phone, a device I don't entirely trust, mainly because I can't see where it keeps its brain...)

I use Delicious to bookmark not only fic but all kinds of other things, like recipes and articles and craft resources.

Well sure, but I just use my browser bookmarks for that.

And not everything I bookmark has the option to favourite on the site

(quoting original post) "Or in bookmarks in your browser if it doesn't have that function or you can't get an account"...

when I did my MSc research I bookmarked stuff that I then used as my corpus

...although I can see it being handy as a way to create a link list you can then send others to see without having to actually code up a web page or blog post.

And then, when I come back to my bookmarks later it's often from a different computer (I often bookmark interesting-looking fic if it shows up on my flist while I'm at work, then read it on my phone later when I'm not at work)

I just synchronize my bookmarks between my three computers. Granted I can't sync to the iPad (I don't have a phone), but in the eight months we've had it, I've only run into a situation where I wished I wished I could access my "to read" list on it a couple times.

a device I don't entirely trust, mainly because I can't see where it keeps its brain...

lol.

I just synchronize my bookmarks between my three computers.

Ah, see, that's where I feel Delicious has an advantage - I don't have to sync anything (and I wouldn't be able to sync with my phone anyway). It's also useful if I need to use another computer, like my boyfriend's netbook or a work machine other than my usual one. Admittedly this is partly due to laziness on my part, heh.

The other advantage is the tagging system - you can filter by multiple tags at once, which I like because if I'm in the mood for something femmeslash AND fluffy AND rated R, I can browse everything with all those tags. Also, something that used to bother me about browser bookmarking was that it used the folders/subfolders system - so, I don't know, if a fic had both R/S and H/D in it then I'd have to decide where to put it (and I hate having things in more than one place).

IDK. I think this is a YMMV thing - I prefer web based bookmarking and you like browser based, which is fair enough, you know? But, since you asked, there are my two cents. :)

Edited 2010-12-21 23:12 (UTC)

I don't have to sync anything

Once having set it up, it runs on auto.

The other advantage is the tagging system

I don't tag my bookmarks; I sort them in folders. Sometimes I think I should get around to tagging them because then I don't have to duplicate an entry to make it "live" in more than one place, but because I did not do it from the start (which was before tagging was possible) the amount of data entry required has just been too daunting.

I think this is a YMMV thing

Pretty much. As I said in the OP, it seems I don't want or need the service they provide, so I was kind of going "huh, I don't get it".