Pinboard acquired del.icio.us 1 June 2017 now as of 15 June closed read-only

It's the end of an era, as Pinboard buys and shutters del.icio.us (UPDATED):
It’s the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us.  // it frickin went back to that url! huh! in April 2016, so a year ago (guess I haven't done one occasional pgmrk in a year!) //

After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won’t be able to save any new bookmarks.

//how long will it remain up in read only mode?    *****
///wh are options for importing bkmrks?
mine are imported ~ fr beginning? successfully retaining notes and tags? - up until they discontinued the auto-mirroring in 2014.  so, ten years. 

Del.icio.us pioneered the social bookmarking paradigm. /well flickr too right, what is going on now w flickr? and wh were the other early sites w tags?//  Its influence can be seen everywhere, from Reddit to Twitter.
 Over its long life //del.icio.us started 2004? I think that's when I started using it... ok per wkp sept 2003. wow so now has been nearly 14 years//, it changed hands several times. Firstly, to Yahoo, who spent between $15 million and $30 million on it. After several years of mismanagement, Yahoo sold it to the /ytube founder guys, right? who had sold ytube to ggl/ Chad Hurley and Steve Chen-owned AVOS Systems, who then offloaded it to Science, Inc, who in turn sold it to Delicious Media, a short-lived alliance between Domainersuite and Science Inc. And now, it’s at its final destination: Pinboard.

 Pinboard’s decision to acquire del.icio.us is shrewd. Firstly, the two sites are inextricably linked. After del.icio.us was acquired by AVOS Systems in 2011, users fled to Pinboard in droves over complaints AVOS was fundamentally changing the makeup of the site. // the guy who made pinboard said ~ he was starting it bcs d n like changes, was making own that was like the first early dlcs//
By purchasing del.icio.us, Pinboard is able to coax the few remaining del.icio.us users to jump ship. Depending on how much Pinboard paid for the site, how many users remain, and how many users Pinboard is able to convert, this could be a financially lucrative move. A Pinboard subscription costs $11 per annum. We’ve reached out to Pinboard for a statement. If we hear back from them, we’ll update this post. UPDATE: I just spoke to Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski. In a statement, he said “I am the greatest.” Ceglowski also confirmed the purchase price for del.icio.us, which was $35,000. // down from 15+million! that yahoo paid in.. 2005 (it was that early? I guess they d n develop it though. wh was good for ppl liked it way it was. so did it have that streamlined purple and text look until Avos bought it?? in 2011 ? ... I've got losts of notes here on 2011 if I want to revisit dlcs hist wrt my experience of it...



https://pinboard.in/u:mcassimatis/

✭    del.icio.us/mcassimatis m cassimatis's Bookmarks (User mcassimatis) Links 1 through 10 of 14931 m cassimatis's Bookmarks // 14931 pgmrks. on pinboard (before adding this pgmrk) I have 14623. so 308 on dlcs that are not on pinbrd. 27 Sept 2014 was most recent on pinboard (Riding the Rap Elmore Leonard in Nyr). right bcs as of sept14 pinbrd stopped auto mirroring wh I posted to dlcs. so pgmrkd 308 to dlcs since then. (most likely. if initially I had successfully brought over all fr dlcs fr beginning). 8 June 2016 was most recent on dlcs. (re alluc ads z1606 tele-v web). hmm just read th site went back to url del.icio.us Apr16, so how did I not encounter that? my frfx bkmrklt still worked? or I made it just under the wire :) and then did not pgmrk anyth since! had gone to just ~ occasional use as of when, 2009? lots of prmks 2004-2008/9. then occasional, saving to pinbrd as well until sept14. then sept14 - apr16 added 308 pgmrks to dlcs that I ought export to pinbrd (and save elsewh). //nb right now this is post directly to pinboard, for first time, or maybe I posted a few directly back when joined? but ~ right off? ~ I found cld set up pinbrd so as to mirror dlcs, so went on posting there so as to use both. thanks to pinboard making this easy, whereas was not clear cld do the reverse. and I always liked pinboard very much. grateful for it. missed that first dlcs look, simplicity, text-focus, less 'social', more about information. //today I tried to load dlcs and it did not. bcs now at del.icio.us! and in lkg up, found this news that pinboard acquired dlcs. seems crazy full circle to del.icio.us and then a sort of spiral where pinbrd came about to replace original dlcs and now takes it over. closing it, making read only. so users who still want to use it have option of joining pinboard $11 per year. I'm happy I have an account from early! non annual. since evidently I do not keep up, now can go months or year without using. maybe do donate sometime. maybe now will resume pgmrks again. try on phone. m.pinboard.in //aw this worked. I'm moved <3 has my tags. my frfx post-pin bkmrklt in bkmrk bar works. aw thanks. I'm happy. it's like a way of life (as interface!) that I remember, that was a loss, is not lost. in search of lost pgmrking. lost keeping. z1707 dlcs web a my



huh over at dlcs it did let me edit:  

mcassimatis

[webpage title line: empty-filename] www.alluc.ee/l/empty-filename/o4mj2irp 
[url]  www.alluc.ee
1 Save    This link recently saved by mcassimatis on June 08, 2016 

for no ads ever again 'click here' on alluc. simply share on some social network, we'll remember it and not show ads again in this browser (in chrome at moment.) cool that dlcs came up under more(193)all

//hm. can I still edit this? today is 3 July 2017. site went to read-only on 15 June, after acquired by Pinboard on 1 June 2017. // and prior to that on April 24, 2016, it went back to del.icio.us which is cool and which I did not know, how did I post this link In June, but not know that? maybe I was unsurprised to find my post bkmrklt not working and I went to dlcs.com and there was a redirect at that time and I manually entered the link... oh I don't know.

_________________  reading around about this, just a bit tonight, read more...

......twitter........

@Delicious

 Sort of a zombie? But the friendly kind. (Recent posts are by a very-long-ago former Delicious team member.) See also: @Pinboard


Retweeted      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard   Jun 12

The @verge interviews Britta and me about fandom and buying back @delicious
// buying *back* //
/// Britta! I think that's who I went back & forth w? she was on dlcs
support team - I prob have dlcs pgmrks documenting that. and or dlww.
yeah pretty sure... maybe started actually bcs she responded to one of my dlcs pgmrks tagged dlcs :)  and I always liked that kind of communication, like someone heard me talking to myself and took an interest... (oh I wasn't talking only to myself,  it's not really just me here) ///



The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business - The Verge:
The AVOS redesign made it impossible to tag or search for anything with a / in it  [as used for slash fic].    //huh. I guess no problm for me that I use that all the time in notes. bcs I d n search for it.  it's a spacing representation. actually did I start using that on dlcs? bcs cld not do line breaks?  wh then after avos redesign maybe cld.//
A single symbol turned into a huge opportunity for Delicious’ growing rival, Pinboard.  Cegłowski was only positioned to notice this with the help of former Delicious community manager Britta Gustafson. She taught him about fandom, and how fans had once made Delicious’ platform work for them as a way to organize hundreds of thousands of pieces of fan fiction. “As community manager,” Gustafson explained to The Verge in an email, “I heard a lot of friendly and thorough bug reports from fandom users, and I got curious about what they were bookmarking. Learning about it showed me that the fandom community was really interesting, lively, and thoughtful — a whole secret world of women like me who liked internet stuff, feminism, queerness, science fiction. I was just an amused and impressed observer.” Gustafson began participating in fandom herself, and encouraged Cegłowski to embrace the fandom community. As a token of thanks, Cegłowski has given her control of the now-useless Delicious social media accounts. She posts from them for fun, but notes that the end of Delicious as a fandom community is a bit of a soft spot. As with many corporate redesigns of once-niche products, “[It] hurts to see a thing you built turn into a weird undead zombie.”
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Pinboard Acquires Delicious
blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious
Pinboard has acquired Delicious. Here’s what you need to know:
If you’re a Pinboard user, nothing will change. Sad!   // :)
If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API.
Users will have an opportunity to migrate their bookmarks to a Pinboard account, which costs $11/year. Those who prefer to bookmark elsewhere will be able to export their data once I fix the export link, which was disabled some months ago for peformance reasons.
Please note that there is no time pressure for moving off Delicious. //his bolding. I like this guy a lot. again, like I did back when first appreciating pinbrd.//
You won't be able to save new bookmarks after June 15, but everything else will continue to work, or break in familiar ways.  // :) 
As for the ultimate fate of the site, I'll have more to say about that soon.
Delicious has over a billion bookmarks and is a fascinating piece of web history. Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. // :) //
I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
This is the fifth time Delicious has been sold.
Founded in 2003, the site received funding from Union Square Ventures in 2005, and sold to Yahoo later that year for somewhere between $15-$30M. //sale 1 to yahoo.
In December of 2010, Yahoo announced it was ‘sunsetting’ Delicious, an adventure I wrote about at length.   The site was sold to the YouTube founders in 2011.  [Avos systems /but yes saying 'the ytube founders' is more to the pnt] // sale 2 to Avos.
They subsequently sold it to Science, Inc. in 2014.  //sale 3. at this pnt I was not tuned in enough to even know this had happened (even belatedly. until now). 
Science sold it to Delicious Media in 2016 //sale 4 and as above Dlcs Media was a Science Inc together w another group//, and last month Delicious Media sold it to me.
Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard.   // :)

—maciej on June 01, 2017

it's pretty great.

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happily: frfx has my info.  login is w username.  mcassimatis.
then t7. ---#---  well, prob will want change that ~ to dlcs. Evthatht---# /no cap on the a just the frst.