I would not be surprised, if Chad and Steve were avid users of the service, and that part of their motivation for the acquisition was to keep it that way.
The confirmation email about my agreeing to the transfer included a humorous bug:
"Originating IP address: 127.0.0.1"
I wonder how many of the current userbase will login and transfer the bookmarks, I guess theres a lot of value in the historical accounts that won't transfer with the deal..
This may be true, yet its a great indicator for both parties to see how many users are willing/current in the system. It certainly can be a line in the sand fir future comparisons.
i wonder how much of the current userbase hasn't already switched to pinboard.
Since it's easy to calculate Pinboard's user numbers, apparenty most of them. Browser bookmark sync is probably a much bigger alternative.
That's fantastic news. I'm one of those that spent ages bookmarking and properly tagging. Finally, there is hope for Yahoo! Only it's outside of Yahoo!
What will be amusing if Yahoo later acquires the newly invigorated Delicious 18 months from now.
Actually, much more amusing when Google does so.
I kind of hope for something like this to happen to Flickr, too -- Yahoo has had good taste on acquisitions, but such a waist of potential is sad.
I'm glad to hear it won't be going away - I built a huge api-based service off Delicious that my whole team uses, and I really like how it works.
I'm glad I didn't stop using it. Thanks Chad and Steve.
I wonder if they have plans for further development, or are just going to maintain it?
is Google going to buy Delicious next?
What if we use our Yahoo login with delicious?
You'll get asked to migrate your login and data over to the "new" system. I did it earlier and it didn't take long at all.
:) Just got the email and did it and was coming back to post that I know know:-p