The sky is falling

[effex]

JFC, Yahoo is shutting down Delicious. What. WHAT. WHAT.

I have 2700 bookmarks saved there right now, most of them (1613) fic. A lot of my fannish friends do too. And fannish comms. And challenges. And kink memes. And International Blogging Against Racism Week, and...

This isn't 'LJ's going under' levels of oshit, but it's still going to be bad - there really isn't anywhere (afaik) for people to go. A couple people (we're talking about this over on Twitter as I type) have mentioned Pinboard, which looks shiny, but that $7 sign-up fee's a big obstacle to fannish migration.

In conclusion, WHAT.

ETA: Both bookshop (DW/LJ) and copperbadge (DW/LJ) are hosting OMG WTF WHAT DO WE DO discussions.

Also, it turns out the AO3 can bookmark external links! Except there's no import and the interface is not-good. Maybe they can fix that?

ETA 2: Actually, everyone is hosting OMG WTF WHAT DO WE DO discussions. Via cimorene: 11 Ways to Backup your del.icio.us bookmarks. That's the first, most important step. Don't forget to do it!

ETA 3: The OTW just tweeted about the Delicious shut down and recommend the AO3, with a promise of more news to follow. So they know about it, at least!

Meanwhile, over at deliciouslymad, a former Delicious employee is talking about starting up a new fannish-friendly bookmarking service.

Comments

[torachan]

Yeah, I'm sure they will get to it eventually. It clearly just hasn't been a priority. Maybe this will bump it higher on the list for them, though.

Over here, a former delicious employee is talking about possibly creating a fandom version of delicious, which would be really awesome.

[effex]

That would be excellent. I was bemoaning the how unlikely getting a fannish version set up would be on twitter, obviously I was overly pessimistic. And don't know anything about fandom.

[brewsternorth]

Saw that thread - and the idea that it would potentially integrate with AO3, too, would be a good thing if it could come about.