Entry tags:

delicious, woe

So....who else is totally bummed at the fact the new owners of delicious said this: "We didn’t buy it so we can kill it,” Mr. Hurley said. “Hopefully people will understand that."

And then went and did exactly that?

No forward slashes in tags. No tag bundles. Limited to 10 tags per page. No subscriptions. No network. Tags no longer autocomplete when bookmarking. You can't see all your tags in the sidebar — I guess they think it doesn't matter because bundles are dead. My bookmarks are all out of order. There's no more bulk editing of tags.

Bookmarking is a disaster. It saves the bookmark immediately, which I find really annoying because I have the delicious tag button on my browser and sometimes accidentally hit it. I thought the update made before Yahoo! dumped delicious was ham-handed and awful, but this is outright cruel and really shows the men who purchased it really didn't try to understand the multiple types of culture on the service. The accessibility issues alone made me boggle. With the old way when I typed a tag and then spaced out it created the tag, but now I have to use my trackpad to click out and get the tag to create. I hope it's just me or a bug, because that's terrible! Because tag bundles are gone, there's nothing in the bookmark window to select from. Apparently you're not supposed to have over ten tags you can remember offhand.

It does seem to remember when you've saved a bookmark.

A fact: I would have paid for delicious as run by our Yahoo! Overloads. I would never pay for what exists now.

And lo, my fears about the newsletter came true. ff_press is basically on indefinite hiatus because our compile script is completely broken. Even if we figure out how to fix it, the fact tag bundles are dead and you can't show them in the bookmark window any longer is a huge roadblock as long as there's also no autocomplete.

I feel like the universe made this happen in the middle of my midterms on purpose. :|