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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 09:26 pm (UTC)From:It also works as a site-wide finder for multiple tags: you can look for a set of tags like NC-17 clex, and seeing how many people have added that link (the number on the right) tells you something about how popular that story is.
Many authors & reccers have all their fic linked there, going back many years on a bunch of different sites, and if Del goes away (I hear maybe it's not going away, just no longer going to be part of Yahoo), those stories will have no central finding point.
But mainly, the issue is that many thousand people use Delicious nearly constantly; if it vanishes, it'll drastically disrupt their web use.
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Date: December 21st, 2010 10:23 pm (UTC)From:Didn't know you could do that.
[community profile] scans_daily and [livejournal.com profile] 50books_poc both starting using it as a way to tag posts when they went past LJ & DW's tag limits.
Wow, I've never gotten near those, I don't think.
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Date: December 21st, 2010 11:42 pm (UTC)From:This is how the majority of fandoms newsletters gather the links to create their newsletters. There is a program created by murkins that converts the delicious links into the newletter. If I gather links daily, I can create the sshp_prophet in 5 minutes using the program. Without it, it takes a good 3-4 hours.
Also, I've found it less useful than snarryficfind or my flist for HP recs. But in fandoms like Reboot, Merlin, Inception, SPN, Sherlock and others, I can do a quick search and find the most bookmarked fics to help me sort through to the (arguably) best fics that fandom has to offer. That way, I'm not as tied to the whims of a single reccer. It's not always the case that the most bookmarked is the best, but it's happened often enough that I prefer it to a random rec on my flist.