PSA

[astridv]

Quick heads up, Delicious is now displaying users' real names under their pseuds.
/via sholio

eta: I simply went and made all links private instead of deleting my account. There are too many useful meta links and I hate getting used to new sites. Fortunately my lj name was already taken when I signed up and my pseud there conveys zero information.

eta2: I hear you can also change your name, I didn't look into how to do that though.

What a boneheaded move that was. Diigo has at the top of their entry page: "Transition from Delicious to Diigo ~ Instruction & FAQ"

Comments

[ratcreature]

I can really recommend Pinboard. Well worth the one time fee. I switched with the previous Delicious disaster. I had tried Diigo and migration worked somewhat (it didn't migrate any tags over their limits), but they offer less tags than I need and I didn't like their interface as much either.

[oxoniensis]

Thanks for the heads up! I really hate it when sites completely disregard their users' privacy. Not even a warning that they were going to do that!

I changed my name on there (fortunately I'd only used the first letter of my surname, not my full surname) - it's easy to do under settings.

I'll second the rec for Pinboard - I went over there last December, and I don't regret it.

[astridv]

I haven't really missed having a bookmarking site since Delicious went boink... I use AO3 and ffn to bookmark/share my fave stories, and a Firefox folder for privae meta links. But I'll look into Pinboard when I want another place to share links.

[astridv]

Not even a warning that they were going to do that!

I was wondering if I'd missed it. If it was announced, it wasn't done in a prominent way. That part really bugs me; a company should know better than to spring a change like that on their customers.

Heck, an online service should know better than to out their customers. What a stupid plan.

I'm keeping Pinboard in mind, I've heard only good things.

[monanotlisa]

Pinboard is wonderful, I completely agree. Wish more folks used it, though.

[oxoniensis]

Me too. It's never gained the popularity of delicious, sadly, probably because of the start up cost, so I don't find it quite as good for searching for new fics, but still better than delicious has become.