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From the forgot password page:

> If you forgot your del.icio.us username or password, you're going to have to wait a bit longer before you can log into the site.

> I'm working on a password recovery feature, but the amount of automated and spam traffic the site gets makes this delicate.

> I don't have an ETA for this and if you email me about it, I will ignore the email and get grumpy. Just hang tight.

Also, from the "help" page:

> When Yahoo sold del.icio.us to AVOS in 2010, there was a stipulation that users had to opt-in to have their data transferred. So if you have a really old (pre-2010) del.icio.us account, and you did not consent to this transfer at the time, then I do not have your data. It is sitting in a KGB datacenter somewhere, or wherever Yahoo! databases ended up.

That's a bummer. I think I created my account in 2005 or thereabouts, and I don't remember ever hearing about this opt-in, so I guess my data is well and truly gone. Still, props to Maciej for recovering as much as possible.

I was able to log right in! Amazing.

I can go back 500 links but beyond that it is blank. I don't know if its because a bug or that is all I had.

My first bookmark there: https://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ which was for events in SF. Link is dead and athe site is quite different now.

Another classic is Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Site is still up, but Flash isn't/

Some old school rave videos: http://angeladam.com/video/OldRavesAndPartiesVideoIndex.html

I am really surprised at how little total link rot I have in here.

Ishkur’s Guide has been updated, and the new version does not require Flash: https://music.ishkur.com/

This is an absolutely incredible work of historical musicology. Are there any similar works for other styles of music with examples?

That's so cool. Thanks

If you click on the profile link it should give you the official link count. If there's a discrepancy, let me know (along with your username) and I'll dig in.

My ancient account (long since migrated to some guy's site called Pinboard) shows a blank there as well.

this guy’s. the guy you’re replying to. :-)

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This is the site where humor goes to die. I feel your pain.

Lesson learned. I recently referenced a George Carlin quip and got a diatribe about statistics. Thanks again.

It's actually blank. (I also think my date joined is off but I can't remember) username is: skuba

Give it a try now.

If you're able to log in with old credentials but see a blank screen, please ping me (maciej@ceglowski.com); I'm trying to track down this bug.

I've also noticed there are some users in the users table who don't have an assigned shard ID (the database was split into 10 shards) but whose data is nevertheless on one of the shards.

happening to me too ... really exited to see my bookmarks from 2006

yep that’s happening to me. I’ll email you a little later

Thanks! If you're comfortable sharing the password, or letting me reset the password, that will help me try to duplicate the error in dev.

You shouldn't ask for someone's password, no matter what the context is. There should be other ways to duplicate or identify the issue, no?

Not if you're as lazy as I am.

ok let me clarify. It is really not a good idea to give your password out on the internet, even if the person says they are an employee. When I worked at a company handling user data they had strict rules around this because employees had to be accountable for what user data they looked at and how that data was handled. Someone could use your password, do something harmful, and then blame it on you. It would be hard to prove innocence.

> If you're comfortable

Why would it matter what happens between two consenting adults?

I should clarify I meant with random internet people. There are security concerns. Sister comment explains

Why not? Computers do this all the time, why shouldn't humans?

Computers don't act with malicious intent.

happening to me too! will email later!

amazing work/excavation. Thank you!

Woah, so weird to use a site that doesn't have dozens of Javascript dependencies to render a page. Loads so fast!

I loved del.icio.us. It was probably the first really popular non “.com” site and it was such a great concept. I even tried to build a personal clone later called “vizilinkz”. Ah good times...

I loved delicious and was really mad when Yahoo ran it into the ground. I never found anything like that since. Some time ago I started my own project trying to recreate the tagging experience that was central to delicious. The landing page is still a work-in-progress but feel free to check it out: https://getsavory.co/.

Oh, Yahoo and running things into the ground... somebody could write a book about it.

I lament the fate of another Yahoo-acquired property, Konfabulator.

I ended up using diigo.com for a while, but I remember finding the android client pretty annoying to use and I kind of faded off it.

Just logged in for the first time in like 5 years and all my stuff is still saved on there and I see they have an API. Might revisit.

To the point though, it was pretty close to delicious with tagging and I remember liking some other features it had, though the details elude me now.

I did the same thing!

The person who bought delicious also runs pinboard.in

It's surprising how stuck in the house during the pandemic does to finishing side-projects or creativity! :)

Just read that bebo is potentially coming back: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-55912988

I remember first seeing the domain name "del.icio.us" and then trying to register something similar but could never find the right combination. Plus all of the short domains were often already taken and were rather expensive back then.

I had lackofti.me as a personal domain for a while. It was fun but as far as others using it it was always an extra step, like explaining which parts of a wifi password are capitalized.

I’m super-late to this, bit just wanted to say thanks to idlewords on the off chance he sees it. This means a lot to me.

Was able to log in... what a great nostalgia flash! :)

Sad to see how many links are broken now...

... and some, like postsecret.com, are surprisingly still live and active 15 years later.

PSA: if you - like me - imported to diigo from del.icio.us during the dark years there's still a chance we can migrate back as we have export tools available: https://www.diigo.com/tools/export

talk about another example of pre-pandemic olden tech times nostalgia: delicious is a small but important part of web history for sure. Happily browsing old links and the tags I used haha. My personal net history circa 200x to whatever..... I have found myself looking for an old link in the last few years and thinking it was stored somewhere in my delicious links..heh

This is cool.

Ok, now I really have to go through my old harddisks and recover my username and password from 10+ years ago.

Wow. My oldest link is 2006. Was a bit of an accurate diary of that time for me. Cool.

2004 for me. Almost makes up for the fact that I have basically no pictures from HS or college.

This is awesome! Will we be able to change our passwords in the future?

It took me four years to get this far, so I don't want to make any promises.

Please let us know if you need a hand. I'd definitely be up for donating time to help with the site.

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