Teacup.

So I’m pretty slow and sometimes rather dense in real life and…this kind of applies to me online as well. I only just found out that Delicious got sold to AVOS and AVOS started this whole “we’re going to revamp this place” which…didn’t turn out too well.

They’ve added this “stack” feature which I don’t know what the fuck it does. And…I can’t seem to see all my tags unless I’m logged in? There’s a whole boatload of complaints and flames out there and I’m still not completely sure what’s going on. I do know that as the flames and complaints come in, AVOS is slowly re-inserting the old features that we all love and trust.

To me, a lot of people missed the “tag bundle” feature which I never used…I use Delicious as a private bookmarking system so that even if I change browsers or PC, my bookmarks are still intact and don’t need me to import/export and just generally make me bang my head against the nearest horizontal surface.

Oh! I wish they put back the auto-suggest tags instead of just suggesting tags based on what I already have. When I bookmark things, I just click all the tags that were suggested as they made the most sense. Now I have to do the brainwork and think of tags. Urgh. Just leave Delicious as it was and improve on it, not take away everything…this makes me sad.

Anyway! Since a lot of people are exporting bookmarks and just generally relocating elsewhere, I looked around and it was either Trunk.ly, Diigo or Pinboard. The first two are free though Diigo has a cap of ~300 bookmarks unless you upgrade to a premium account while Pinboard has a one-time fee at registration. Pinboard’s registration fee is (number of users * $0.001). When I signed up, it was ~ USD $9.48.

I think it’s a no-brainer which I chose. Pinboard it was. The services matched most closely like the old Delicious what with the simple interface and the ability to search bookmarks and notes and blah blah. It’s simple, it works and I like it.

In real life, I just finished university yesterday and now it’s exam time. I feel that all these WP upgrade notices bombarding me in the admin panel is trying to tell me that it’s time to create a new look. I think so too. But where’s my creative juice going to come from?

No wisecrack answers please, cause I already have them all playing in my mind as soon as I typed that.