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Dec 13

New Delicious blog

We’ve introduced a new Delicious blog where we’ll be posting major updates going forward, including the site redesign that rolled out today.

Nov 9

AVOS Acquires Trunk.ly to Enhance Link-Saving in Delicious

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San Mateo, CA – November 9, 2011 – AVOS Systems, which recently re-launched Delicious.com and is led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired link-saving service Trunk.ly.

Trunk.ly was founded in December 2010 by Tim Bull and Alex Dong, and is focused on making the bookmarking process more automated and supported by intuitive search. Trunk.ly collects every link that users share or “like” on websites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and stores them in one place to make them easy to find.

“It became clear from the first discussion with Trunk.ly’s founders that our visions for the future of bookmarking and discovery were closely aligned,” said Chad Hurley, CEO of AVOS. “Their technology and insights will accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious.”

“We’re excited to join this stellar team and apply our bookmarking innovations to help Delicious users discover and collect the web,” said Tim Bull, co-founder of Trunk.ly.

More information on what this acquisition means for Trunk.ly users can be found on their blog.

Nov 7

It’s as easy as d.me

Do you love visiting Delicious, but hate typing all those letters into your address bar? Well, you’re in luck, because now all it takes is four keystrokes: d.me.

We’re always looking to simplify how people can access and use Delicious, and a shorter URL brings a number of benefits, such as a more concise way to point to your Delicious profile: d.me/chad, for example.

Saving Links via Email

We’ve also added a way to save links by emailing the URL to an @d.me address. This is particularly useful for saving on a mobile device. Simply include the link in the body of your email, and use the subject line for your link title. You have the option of adding a comment, tags and privacy designation in the email as well.

Each user will have a unique email address to send links to, in order to let you send from any email. To create your own email destination, visit the “@d.me” section of your Settings page and enter an alpha-numeric code after your username. Be sure to save this email in your address book so you don’t have to remember it.

Then, next time you’re browsing on your mobile device, adding a link to Delicious will be easy like Sunday morning. Just select the option to email the link…

…enter any additional details and send to your @d.me email…

…and all the information will be saved in Delicious.

We welcome all feedback on making email saving better, and will continue adding new capabilities over time, such as saving multiple links from one email.

There is also a new way to add a bookmarklet to your mobile browser. To see the details, visit our updated bookmarklet page.

More Updates

  • We’ve started testing network feeds on select Delicious profiles, and hope to make networks available for everyone over the next few weeks.
  • The process for creating stacks has been streamlined, so try building a new one and let us know what you think on the Forum.

Oct 19

Delicious Downtime for Maintenance

Delicious will be offline for maintenance later today so we can update our data tier and make some improvements to the search infrastructure. The maintenance will start October 19th at 10 pm PDT / 5 am GMT and is expected to last until 2 am PDT / 9 am GMT on October 2oth (four hours).

Oct 19

New Way to Rescue Bookmarks from Yahoo!

We have a few updates for anyone who still wants to get their bookmarks from the old Delicious.

There is now an easier method to rescue bookmarks from Yahoo! and import them to the new Delicious, which can be found here (when you’re logged in) or in the right column of your Settings page. Simply enter your old Delicious username and password and you’ll receive an email when the import is complete. This tool only works with old Delicious login information, so anyone who used to log in with their Yahoo! ID should still utilize the fix we pointed to last week.

Yahoo! has also extended their deadline for retrieving old bookmarks to November 1, 2011. The old Delicious data will be gone after that day, so act fast!

Oct 11

How to Get Old Bookmarks from Yahoo!

For any previous Delicious users unable to access their account, Yahoo! has agreed to keep data from the old Delicious until October 21, 2011 and there is a way to export bookmarks until then (UPDATE: deadline has been extended to November 1). Read this blog post for more details on the fix, which was discovered by the Delicious community. While this is an unofficial solution, we’ve confirmed that it works and want to make people aware of it. Just make sure to act on it soon!

FAQ:

1.   Why weren’t my bookmarks migrated automatically? – As outlined before, we were legally required to obtain permission from Yahoo! users before migrating their bookmarks. Despite our best efforts to inform everyone, some people did not learn about it in time.

2.    Was data deleted during the migration? – No. If you agreed to migrate your bookmarks before September 23, AVOS has all of your data. If you didn’t agree to migrate them, Yahoo! will have your data until October 21st (UPDATE: now November 1).

3.    Why can’t you just look up my email address? - Because Delicious did not historically validate unique email addresses, we cannot use email addresses to identify previous Delicious accounts. We recently added email validation (currently required for sharing) to prevent this issue in the future.

Oct 6

Introducing the Delicious Forum

We recognize that the Delicious re-launch has been frustrating for many previous users, and want to be as transparent as possible in addressing the feedback and complaints we’ve received during our beta period.

In order to deliver more effective customer service and help people track our progress on resolving issues from the transition, we’ve introduced a new Delicious Forum. The Forum will let you communicate directly with Delicious employees, confirm whether an issue has already been reported, and exchange  tips and tricks with the whole community.

You should also visit our FAQ on the Help page to see if your question is addressed there. If not, you can post directly to the Forum from the top of that page. We welcome any type of feedback on the Forum, so don’t be shy.

If you want to stay updated on what’s happening at Delicious, check out our blogs:

  • Beta Status Blog: frequently updated with each new upgrade and fix that we’ve implemented, or are working on, since the site re-launched.
  • AVOS Blog: the best resource for higher-level Delicious updates and news.

Sep 29

If Your Bookmarks/Links Appear to be Missing…

A critical project we’re working on is to ensure Delicious users have access to all of their bookmarks, or links as we’re now calling them.

For Users Who Opted in to Migrate Bookmarks to the New Delicious

We reached out to a number of opt-in users who informed us their bookmarks are missing since the transition from Yahoo!. From these discussions, we’ve identified two key causes so far:

  • Misconception: As part of the re-launch, we decided to change the name of “bookmarks” to “links,” which resulted in some users thinking their bookmarks were missing since they didn’t see that term on the new site. For those unsure how to find their links, here is the process: once logged in, click on your profile name on the top right navigation, and then select “my links” from the dropdown menu.
  • Issue: Some users reported not seeing pagination at the bottom of their links page, meaning that they can’t click through to more pages with the rest of their links. If you currently have this issue (or any other issues related to missing links), please email us at migration@avos.com. Include your username and which web browser you are using. Our support team will follow-up as quickly as possible to resolve your issue. Know that your links are secure – we have all the data from opted-in users – and it won’t be long before you see them again.

For Users Who Didn’t Opt in to Migrate Bookmarks to the New Delicious

Since April 2011, when AVOS completed the purchase of Delicious, we worked together with Yahoo! to inform users about the data migration. In order to legally move account information from one company to another, each user needed to give their explicit permission.  Yahoo! and AVOS used a variety of communication channels – including emails to all Delicious users and notifications on Delicious.com – over a four-month period to ensure everyone had the option to opt in or export their bookmarks.

Despite the warnings, some Delicious users chose not to opt in (or didn’t receive the notifications), but want access to their bookmarks now. If you’re one of these users, please know that we are actively working with Yahoo! on a solution to retrieve your bookmarks, so stay tuned for more information.

 

Sep 28

New Beta Status Blog

If you’re looking for more detailed and frequent updates on what we’re doing to address issues being raised by Delicious users, please check out our new Delicious Beta Status Blog. It will be updated regularly with the latest on our progress resolving bugs, migration issues and feature requests.

We have also added a message at the top of Delicious.com linking to the status blog, so all users are aware of this resource.

We’ll keep posting broader Delicious news to this blog, as well, so keep checking in.

Sep 27

The First 20 Hours

It’s been quite a day. We launched the new Delicious a little before midnight last night, and it was amazing to watch new stacks being created and links being saved on our site just minutes later. Now it’s 20 hours later, and thousands of stacks have already been created. Thanks to everyone who gave stacks a try – please keep sending us feedback on what you think of the experience.

Speaking of feedback, we were thrilled to get so much of it today. Delicious is in “back to beta” mode, after all, and we’re depending on users to help us improve the interface and track down bugs. We spent a lot of time reading user emails and comments across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs and anywhere else we could think to look. All of it was helpful, and we responded to as many people as we could. For those who haven’t heard from us directly, hopefully this blog post will address your pending question or concern.

First and foremost, all previous Delicious users should know that if you agreed to transfer your data to AVOS, all that information is secure. If you’re not seeing all your bookmarks right now, it’s because we made a late decision to limit the amount of data we initially transferred from Yahoo!. We’ll be restoring all the data into your profile in the coming weeks. We should have made this limitation clearer to everyone from the outset, and I want to apologize for any headaches it has caused or will cause.

Beyond that, our engineers are drilling down on specific issues we’ve heard since the re-launch. We already completed these fixes:

  • RSS feeds working (fixed a DNS issue)
  • Fixed password reset process
  • Resolved bugs in feeds that were blocking link rolls

In addition, we’re working hard to address other issues that users mentioned today, including:

  • Fixing browser extensions in IE, Chrome and Firefox
  • Adding in tag bundle functionality
  • Increasing the number of links per page
  • …and many more

For the latest on the status of our features and functionality, your best bet will be to check the Delicious FAQ on our Help page, which will be updated regularly. We’ll also keep you updated on site progress through this blog and the Delicious Twitter feed and Facebook page.

This was an exciting first 20 hours for us, and there’s much more to come, so keep on saving and stacking those links!

- Vijay Karunamurthy, chief engineer

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