The New Delicious! (Forgot password? Get lost!)
Written on 31st July 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
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Not a lot of new features but a very slick new design. What IS new:
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.
Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.
Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn. Check out the What’s New page for an overview of the changes, or watch this animation that sums it up nicely:
And the movie that says it all:
UPDATE: earlier I predicted that a lot of users wouldn’t be able to log in again after being logged out by Del.icio.us when they moved to Delicious.com. There are a few complaints from people who can’t find their password in the Support Forums. Ironically the link to ‘Forgot your password’ leads to a ‘Sorry, Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access this URL on this server’ page at Yahoo. Try it yourself.
UPDATE 2: after thinking about that URL for a while I figured it out. This DOES work: https://secure.delicious.com/reverify. Took me 1 minute to find a fix. Wonder how long it will take Delicious…
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By Joop Dorresteijn on Jul 31, 2008
hahaha, that’s epic! Delicious send out the instruction e-mail a week ago, thinking they where all prepared. But Mr. Murphy aside, I hope Delicious will fix thing quickly and make a nice comeback…
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Yeah pretty incredible. I reported the problem here:
http://support.delicious.com/f.....omment_810
They are working on it now…
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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jul 31, 2008
Ok, it took Delicious 35 minutes (and one denial) to fix it. I did post the problem to their forum which seemed to help get the issue noticed…
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By Bonnie on Aug 1, 2008
I did not receive email notification from del.icio.us OR delicious.com. I only found out about the upgrade when my “bookmark this” function quit working. When my login attempts failed, I requested a new password. Delicious.com recognizes my email address, and have now requested a password reset twice in the last 8 hours, but no replies.
Must be some kind of major problems going on. Bugs can be reported at the forum, but only if you login first. Can’t report the problem because I can’t login.
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By Patrick de Laive on Aug 1, 2008
The movie is nicely done and the redesign is pretty slick.
I hope more and more people will start using social bookmarking. After social networking, it should become mainstream.
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By Sébastien on Aug 2, 2008
Wow, the new Delicious Sidebar is AWESOME! This is the first time I really enjoy an extra toolbar/sidebar within my browser. It rocks, go get it.
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By Jesse on Aug 4, 2008
I miss the possibility to make tag combo’s with the ‘+’ operator. Now I have refresh te page with every tag I add to the search. Or do I miss something?
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