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Del.icio.us has been down since it's “migration” on Sunday

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Am I the only one whose first thought was, "wow, del.icio.us is still around?" Yahoo bought them, kinda screwed it up IMO, I paid pinboard his paltry asking price, and kind of forgot about poor ol' del.icio.us.

After reading the post...WTF? They're migrating back to their original domain name and that failed? Didn't del.icio.us always resolve even after delicious.com? What am I missing?

Have you also forgotten about pinboard? Just curious because the story is the same for me, and I've since forgotten about pinboard too. I had the same "oh, that's still around?" reaction during the recent Pinboard/Zapier kerfuffle.

Same, I have forgotten about pinboard too

> Have you also forgotten about pinboard?

Why would I have forgotten about pinboard? I use it several times a week.

I've been using BookmarkOS for a couple months now and can't browse without it https://bookmarkos.com

I think with an outage for this long, is it safe to assume that we've moved away from "the migration is taking awhile" to "something terrible has happened and it may be a good time to switch to pinboard.in"?

Have been an avid delicious.com user for so many years. Got frustrated with recent down times and switched to https://www.diigo.com

I observed downtime(s) on Pinboard (frustrating when you can’t save a bookmark). It was a while ago and I stopped using it soon after.

this is sad. I use delicious a lot and this was the last straw and finally pushed me to pay for pinboard. I just hope they come back up so i can export my links.

Just had a browse of http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/delicious.com.html and it looks like quite a few people have the same plan (myself included)

I thought it was ill-advised when Tony Aly decided to embed ads into the Delicious users' activity feeds. http://david.dlma.com/blog/monetizing-rss-and-atom-feeds But this amount of downtime with no transparency takes the site to a new low.

It has been broken for a while. API calls are returning errors even when used with the official bookmarklet. API support for extensions (the real reason why Delicious was successful) apparently has been deprecated? Whoever is running this doesn't have enough technical expertise.

Thing is, I'd consider buying and at least get it working again. Sadly, the current owners won't realize that what little value it had is now gone, gone, gone and are almost guaranteed to want too much. So instead of putting it hands of someone that knows enough to keep it running, it'll just fade back into obscurity.

http://del.icio.us would appear to be back. Was able to sign in today and add a new bookmark.

I think what most people did after signing in is exporting their bookmarks and deactivating their account...

I just clicked your link, and it's down for me. Same message as before.

Might be cached? I logged in earlier this morning (and seems to be working now) and exported all my bookmarks to pinboard.

It's sad to see all my thousands of bookmarks over the last decade in a file <1MB

Definitely switching too, but really would like to get my bookmarks back. But I rate that as less than 10%. Clearly another company that didn't realise it was incompetent.

Now working for me...

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