Delicious

[jennyst]

So Delicious/AVOS broke a load of stuff. And fandom has sent in support requests, and AVOS are either frantically coding to fix it or possibly ignoring some requests - we don't know.

Fannish infrastructure like Delicious that relies on the goodwill of disinterested (or anti-fannish) parties such as AVOS or Yahoo is generally problematic - it's great to have free stuff while it's working, but it does leave us vulnerable. The OTW mission of preservation & access aims to help us in this sort of situation, but we don't yet have a full solution for all the things Delicious does.

This puts even more pressure on the bookmarks overhaul that AD&T are working on for AO3. And therefore more pressure on already overstretched coders and testers, so caring for our volunteers becomes more important. We have 21 improvements/bug-fixes planned for AO3 bookmarks, ranging from minor niggles to major new features. Which of those do you think are most urgent or important to the things you used to use Delicious for and can't any more?

I'm sure there will be an official OTW post about this later today, but I'd be interested to hear people's views.

Comments

[copracat]

About two years ago I tried to used AO3 bookmarking to masterlist a small fandom's works. I set aside the project waiting for bookmark improvements. Filtering will improve things.

However, I say don't rush it. AO3 resources are precious! Fandom will get by on pinboard, which seems to be welcoming (@pinboard recently tweeted that he wanted to attract fans because they were great bookmarkers.) and is dedicated to bookmarking. And diigo isn't too bad for those of us who don't want to give pinboard our credit card details.

[stungunbilly]

Just jumping in here (hi!) to mention that you can use Paypal and a fake name to sign up for Pinboard.