Delicious is about to lose a bunch of users

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Delicious is switching to a new system, and put on a tutorial for its users to maintain their account, my guess is that a large part of its users won’t return after the switch and will turn out to be ’sleeping’ users.

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I remember talking to a guy who worked full-time for an ISP and did nothing else but handling dead people accounts. They kept charging these people who NEVER logged on and never complained. They had special mechanisms to ensure these people wouldn't be bothered with mail (since they were often literally dead) so they could keep charging them...

But were they really users if they're just "sleepers"? Depends how you define them - I would call them account holders.

In the mobile telecom industry, they use a metric of "users who made a phone call in the past 90 days" and similar for each service (SMS, internet, etc). This negates any inflation of subscriber figures from Pay as You Go kind of billing who may use a SIM card once a year.

"Lose a bunch of users" just for having to log back in? Give me a break.

Wanna bet?

Every time someone clears their cookies they have to log back in. If someone is such an apathetic user of the site that they can't even log in, they'll stop using the site the next time they clear their cookies anyhow. All Delicious is doing, in effect, is clearing everyone's cookies at once. I'm sure there will be a slight dropoff, but this article exaggerates.

I haven't made use of Delicious for a long time now... logging me out isn't going to get me back either!

The point was that a bunch of their "users" don't actually use the site, they just never bothered to logout

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