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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).
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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Date: December 21st, 2010 11:10 pm (UTC)From: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. :)
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Date: December 22nd, 2010 12:07 am (UTC)From: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".