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

[pseudo_tsuga]

I can't do pinboard since I almost never have extra money to spare except just after Christmas and I usually save that for renewing DW and LJ. I really hate the system they have for determining price too. :/ Right now I'm just going to use Diigo because it's the closest I can get. This is such a spectacularly dumb move though simply because it doesn't cost much and so many people use it. They could at least sell it to someone; I'm sure there'd be buyers.