Friday, December 17, 2010
Compiler's note: All today's links deal with the report of Yahoo's termination of delicious and the impact this would have on fandom. Yahoo has since announced that it plans to sell delicious rather than shut it down.

• renay: delicious, delicious :( (or, the farewell ballad of final fantasy press?) - Final Fantasy Press is a fandom newsletter that is simply not sustainable without delicious — we hand-coded from 2005 to 2010, most of the time 30 individual links a day. If you've ever used a fandom newsletter, imagine that: coding everything by hand, for almost five years. -
  
  (tags: delicious newsletters)


• hollow_echos: Delicious is shutting down, back up your bookmarks - One thing I have learned from this whole thing is that repetition is never a bad thing. If this can happen once with a big site like Delicious, it can happen again. -
  
  (tags: delicious)


• roga: way more words than need to be said about this when someone else just summed it up as "don't panic!" - I didn't use Delicious as a bookmarks folder; I used it as a search engine, which is why it worked. Which is why exporting my own bookmarks (that are, for the record, about 5 years not up to date) won't do me any good -
  
  (tags: delicious)


• merlinkinkmeme: Delicious discussion forum - This is a space for fannish Delicious users to discuss alternatives to Delicious. We're especially interested in pooling ideas with other communities and individuals who are heavy, regular Delicious users, as the solutions we need may be very different from those of casual users. -
  
  (tags: delicious migration)


• rageprufrock: Delicious, a rant with added raving - What made Delicious so amazing? And how did it seem to get better despite zero attention from Yahoo? It was just the userbase and nothing more. The more people used it, the more we fed the machine with tags and built up our collections, curated our digital archives the more useful it was. -
  
  (tags: delicious)


• anatsuno: more delicious thoughts of course - What CAN and MIGHT happen is that we find other places to settle, each of us personally, and also as groups, as communities, but the dust on these things will take time to settle, obviously. Critical mass doesn't happen that fast. And even if it doesn't happen... Fandom survives, yeah? Delicious has only existed for what, seven short years, after all. -
  
  (tags: delicious migration)


• bookshop: Yahoo is shutting down Delicious.com - Got any more ideas? BRAINSTORM HERE, PLEASE, HOLY SHIT. -
  
  (tags: delicious)


• dreamyshade: [in deliciouslymad] Goddamnit - On Tuesday Yahoo laid off the entire Delicious team and today it announced at a company all-hands meeting that it will be "sunsetting" Delicious, aka shutting it down, although there are no details yet on when or how, from any of my sources inside Yahoo. // I'm forming a plan to make a clone specialized for fandom bookmarks, something like how Dreamwidth is a fan-friendly clone of LJ. // What are the very basics you would need before moving your bookmarks to this thing? -
  
  (tags: delicious)