you have got to be kidding me

Oh my holy God, what happened to delicious?

...okay, so, when they redesigned they were unable to color code and took away all the functionality?

*blank*

Where are my tags?

Update

Are they screening everything?

Delicious Blog which you will notice, the fuckers still have their own tags working fine.

Update 2

Okay, so pairing with / tags are broken, some kind of half-assed, half-erased line drawing is showing up in every note I have with a link to my account, as I might forget where it was if it wasn't there, were they alwasy randomly in italics, and important, now when I hit my Tag shortcut to tag something, it saves instantly instead of waiting for me to add my tag.

Okay, that part is okay. Except for the obnoxious text color, the terrible white space use, design elements courtesy of point and click, absolutely no sense of organization, the plethora of exclamation points (a thousand high school teenyboppers can only speak in monotone thanks to delicious), no workable public forum seems to be available and delicious, if you are afraid because you think it will be overrun with trolls, yes, it will.

And you deserve it.

Update 3

...my fandom:stargate:atlantis has, I believe, slightly more than five links attached. Where are the other ones?

Update 4

https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all? open this and login with your delicious account. It says it gets all posts, but mine cut off at September 2010. Also, apparently this is fairly intensive on the site.

Clarification

Use the following string for a complete list of all your bookmarks and metadata
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?results=X

Where X equals your total number of bookmarks. Your login may not work at first; for people whose account was first yahoo, it's slightly more complicated but there's instructions at the API link below.

*stares at list* I feel better just being able to see they are all there.

Delicious API - still works, but yeah, bundles are gone, and search by tags will very likely not bring up your tags. Exactly two of mine show up. But I admit, it was comforting to see that nice long page o fall my links, even if that isn't all my links.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

No, it's not a nightmare - it's really that bad.

[silentcs]

oh god I just posted about this. I can't even articulate what I hate about the new viewing format.

Well no, I totally can. Where is my option to see more than 10 per page?? Please someone tell me this is now cleverly hidden and not just gone. The broken tags, nonfunctional bundles,plugin, rss, and network problems just pale in the face of this basic feature.

And I think they are screening everything. I can't find the angry comments on their website, but I did see them on pcmag, their facebook page and a few other places they reported the changes.

in conclusion: agggggggh

[hazel]

It is totally crap, don't get me wrong, but you can still search for links with a tag with / in it using the search box at the top of the page - which brings you to a new page where you can get to everything you've tagged with that tag, anyone's stacks that feature it, and every link anyone has tagged with that tag.

None of this is in any kind of order I can discern, and all my descriptions are now italicised and missing all formatting, and there are no descriptions whatsoever associated with the "all links" bit until you click on the number of people that've saved it, but.

But to give them all the credit they are due for this: they haven't entirely broken the \ key.

[oriolegirl]

Aside from the complete lack of functionality, the worst thing is they never said there would be drastic changes on the first day of the changeover. A little warning would have been helpful.

[nianeyna]

THIS. For some strange reason I assumed that when they bought the site they bought the actual site. Instead of, apparently, the right to use the name "Delicious"...?

[concinnity]

My top tag is now "000". Because I tag by length. And I (apparently) made the crucial mistake of using commas. So my tag "length:5,000-8,000" is now "length:5" "000-8" "000" and "has:length." Because that is clearly how I'll search for things.

Oh, and I only have seven links tagged "000." Certainly not the hundreds of things I'd tagged with "length". No, no.

[ratcreature]

took away all the functionality?

Yes, pretty much. I can't browse my tags, can't display more than ten per tag, no bundles, and I don't see editing of tags anywhere either, and of course they scrapped all the useful social functions. Instead we got crappy line drawings of deformed animals. I have no idea what they imagine people would want to use their site for, if you can't even display or browse your tags or bookmarks.

[niqaeli]

My tags are gone. Completely. So far as I can tell, they got completely napalmed in the migration.

I sent a cranky email to migration@avos.com, inquiring whether there was a snowball's chance in hell of them recovering my metadata. I'm thinking... no, just because it's not that it's not displaying. It's not fucking there. The export doesn't show tag data. The API doesn't show tag data. It is just gone because, apparently, I didn't need tags to navigate my links. It's better this way! I can re-explore them, get to see stuff I haven't seen in awhile!

Fucking rabid lemurs would be better database administrators, I'm betting.

(I refrained from actually saying that in my email. Barely. I didn't cuss, even. I was, however... cranky, we'll say. Cranky and snarky and not honestly very hopeful about the chances of recovering my metadata. Who the fuck even knows.)

But yeah. This is an unmitigated clusterfuck. AVOS can die in a fire. (And so can Yahoo! and Delicious for their misbegotten damned decisions that led us here, actually. Guess who won't be switching to Diigo because it's a fucking Yahoo! service now and how much faith does that fill me about it's future? Yeah.)

[forestgreen]

I don't know if this will work for you, too, but I just exported my bookmarks (I couldn't see the tags before and I couldn't still see in the imported file, which is in html format) but when I re-imported them into pinboard (I just made an account, the 9 bucks were worth it just to see my bookmarks again) the tags were there. So apparently, they are somewhere in the invisible meta-data chaos they have created.

I hate their interface so much.

[forestgreen]

I feel your pain. When I log in I went, "WTF?!" and then my brain stopped working for like a minute while I desperately try to make sense of what my eyes were seeing.

I'm in the acceptance phase of dealing with grief (I hope).

[amalthia]

What a mess. :(

[morgandawn]

I am a yahoo user. the modified api login process no longer works. What really frustrates me is that when I type in a tag to search, I can only see the last 10 bookmarks. The rest are not visible/available.

I tried exporting by tag - that does not work.

off to try exporting all 8000 bookmarks. I had backed up on diigo through Dec 2010, but had no idea things would be this fubar.

[amalthia]

I have over 5000 bookmarks and hadn't backed up diigo since December 2010 too. :( It never occurred to me that the company would take over and completely ruin everything that made Delicious useful.

[lurkmuch]

Why is it ugly and useless? WHY. Who does that and thinks it's useful?

[majoline]

hahahaha. where have all my tags gone? and why are they all useless?

Not just the / ones mind you, but almost every single solitary tag I use goes to an error screen. >:(

AND I CAN'T GET EXPORT TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL OMGS.

So, now I'm switching to pinboard. yay.

[margrave]

I have realised how much I'm dependent on delicious for fics. I'm adrift and so very confused. Where do I find the fics now?!

I need to pay A03 actual money so that they will function forever and ever and ever.

[nianeyna]

Worse, I'm following like 30 wips and now I have no idea where to find them. I can only see the first 10.

[silverbowl.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I'm completely confused and VERY anoyed.

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

Worst part about it? The Network function is gone. Now you have "followers," because apparently it's Facebook.

[thebunnyknows.livejournal.com]

I know that fandom doesn't run the internet, but why does it feel like we always get screwed in things like this?

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

Because we do. ::hugs::

[sesshiyuki.livejournal.com]

Not only have tags been affected by the redesign - that goes for the bundles too. As in they are no longer there. D:

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

You also can't use a slash or an underscore in your tags. If you do, you get a 404 erroer. :-(

ps: love the schwartz icon!

[akavertigo.livejournal.com]

Rumors claims the tags will reappear after they finish weeding out the worst of the bugs.

*whimper*

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

But any smart team would have a dev/test server for mucking up and not push that code live to the public until the bugs have been squashed. :-/

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

My tags appear to be gone. Which is why I'm on pinboard.in now.

[califmole.livejournal.com]

I had the exact same reaction today.. everything appears broken.

[iphi1.livejournal.com]

My tags seem to be all still there, although you can only see as many as can fit on the page. But if you go to the individual links all tags that were used are still there. Tag bundles is apparently also one of the functionalities that they are still working on. Fingers crossed!


The stack thing SEEMS interesting, but it's a bloody hassle to get your existing tags in a stack. You can also follow stacks that interest you, which would be great if you could FIND them. There's no search functionality in the stacks.

Apperently the idea is that the links of the people you follow + the stacks that you follow appear on your "dashboard". Kind of like network and subscription I guess. The only problem. I have yet to find this elusive dashboard. Did anyone else find it?


But you know what the worst thing is any tag containing "/" stopped working!!! Clark/Lex error message, Adam/Kris error message, John/Rodney error message.... you get the idea.


Sigh.

[littledrop.livejournal.com]

I think the stacks are interesting, too. I like the idea of a (potentially) clear delineation between private bookmarks and public stacks, if you choose to use the service that way. I think that could be really great. Public stacks are ... I've got a number of feature requests in my draft feedback email, and two them are the ability to upload stack cover images from the user's own computer, and stack layout customization, because that would take it from being a list of links made decorative with crappy thumbnails snatched from the destination URLS to something more along the lines of a personal publication service like Paper.li, with some beefed up opportunities for visual creativity and added social networking. I also think you should be able to add categories and subdivisions to stacks so that, say, instead of maintaining ten different stacks about ten different authors, you could maintain a single "Authors I Love" stack and subdivide it accordingly. (Freely admit fandom is informing my brain on this one; I was playing around with stacks this afternoon and it hacked me off that I'd need to keep individual stacks for each pairing and fandom. Subdivisions? Categories? Even that custom text feature that's supposed to be active and used for subdivision and I just couldn't find anywhere? Any ability to organise a stack would be awesome.)

There's also a heap of usability problems with the integration of stacks and my links (no ability to bulk add links to an existing stack, no ability to add links to a new stack from across more than one page, no ability to create stacks from my links after it's been filtered by a tag, and many, many more), and even little things like having page numbers at the top and bottom of the my links page, and having page numbers display via dropdown menu instead of having to click pages 4-6-8-10 when all you want to do is get to page 21. And they should totally have made sure all the tags still worked before going live, and slapped a "back in beta!" sticker on the logo rather than burying the phrase in the Help/FAQ pages. Tags are why people signed up, and transparency is almost always good.

But, um, yes. Apart from these problems, I do think the new Delicious could be pretty cool, and I'll be watching with interest. Delicious was always touted as "social bookmarking", and the stack thing particularly is going to push that forward. I mean, Delicious was due a push.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Half my tags are gone. Not happy. I hope they fix it but we'll see.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. I really rely on my subscriptions to find new fic and now they are gone. WTF? Most unhappy.

[iphi1.livejournal.com]

I hope people make stacks for popular fic pairings that I can follow. I'm an optimist?

[trobadora]

Nothing works. Nothing. It doesn't even let me log in!

[kathgrr.livejournal.com]

I want to save this page and just send it as an attachment to "those guys that created you tube" cause obviously they are oh-so-brilliant...