Plenty has been said in this blog about the social bookmarking service Delicious over the years. Â Lately, discussions of the Delicious fate were falling into the sadness. Â After the web service was bought by Yahoo, it was maintained and developed for a while and then began to slow down. Â Things got so bad in fact, that Yahoo announced that it was selling the property. Â That was a moment of panic for many – after all, good or bad, Delicious was a storage of vasts amount of wisdom for many people. Â Pretty much every user at the moment exported data and made a few backups. Â Most looked at the alternative services. Â Some started moving over. Â I was in that group as well, migrating all my bookmarks to Evernote.
Anyhow, Delicious was acquired by a couple of guys who are famous for their work on YouTube, back in the day. Â And that was a glimpse of hope. Â Finally, I thought, geeky techies will know what to do with it. Â They will know how to breath some life into the project and bring its much deserved popularity back. Â They will prove me moving all my stuff to Evernote wrong.

Finally, a few days ago, the new Delicious went live. Â Fresh look, new features – things that we all were waiting for. Â Or so it seemed. Â Upon a closer look it turned out that most of the old useful features are gone. Â And the new features aren’t the ones everyone was waiting for. Â Overall, this is a huge transformation of the service that Delicious is. Â Part of it is still Delicious – there are still bookmarks and tags. Â But part of it is something new – stacks, improved multimedia previews, missing networking, cropped tag navigation, and such. Â The primary focus of the service moved. Â Before it was primarily a storage of bookmarks. Â And secondly, a place to share bookmark wisdom via networking with friends, tagging, and search. Â Now, it’s more of a fancy multimedia collections or something of a sort.
Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for new and exciting technologies. Â But for me personally, Delicious was something completely different. Â And now, with this new release, the last hope of that old Delicious the memory of which I love and cherish, is gone. Â It’s no more. Â The end of an era. Â It’s time to move on and explore the new age. Â Delicious is dead. Â Long live Delicious.