Delicious Shutting Down: Yahoo's Decision Irks Twitterers

The news leaked and spread like wildfire this afternoon: Yahoo is shutting down social bookmarking site Delicious.

This screenshot quickly made the rounds from Yahoo's most recent all-hands meeting with Delicious in the "Sunset" category. AllThingsD reported today that Delicious, as well as other products (MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo Bookmarks and Yahoo Buzz) are indeed shutting down. TechCrunch also confirmed the news of Delicious's demise after reaching out to Yahoo.

Formerly called del.icio.us, the site was founded in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. It boasted more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs by the end of 2008. Once one of the Web's top social sites, Delicious is still accessed by some 350,000 people per month, but it doesn't seem to fit in Yahoo's future plans.

If Twitter is any reaction, this is a decision that many don't understand. Some are even outraged. What's your reaction?

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[theporscheguys]

04:03 AM on 01/07/2011

I moved all of my bookmarks from delicious to http://ocell.us as they are guaranteeing to be around for a long time. The site appears to have all the features of delicious plus a few more. They also have an easy export option that gets everything including tags. I also use their Facebook app and login with may Facebook account (much easier than remembering another password).

[jayphilips]

11:18 AM on 01/04/2011

You can export all your bookmarks from Delicious by going to :
https://secure.delicious.com/settings/bookmarks/export

[Hillary Svank]

06:01 PM on 12/20/2010

You can help save the data that's currently in Delicious by installing the "SaveDelicious" Chrome extension. This open source team is building a public data version of the delicious bookmarks to save the data before Yahoo deletes it.

SaveDelicious is available at:

http://savedelicious.pommepause.com/

[tra]

01:26 PM on 12/17/2010

keyF11.com very good alternative. I recommend this bookmark storage/notepad/browser/password protected storage-hidden panels... Very easy to use and very easy to sharing your favorites or notes - you can say your address to anybody or publish on facebook e.g. keyF11.com/martin (you can choose your name) This online web site/apps is completely free - recommend

[Said One]

10:26 PM on 12/16/2010

Yahoo is quite annoying these days. But I've been thrilled to here that Geocities has been revived as a torrent and that there are archivists archiving all the geocities on separate sites as well as sites offering to make one's website look like an original Geocity.

So one man's neglected idea might turn into another man's fortune. Can't wait until the torrent is available. My own piece of web history in a torrent.

[robiform]

06:57 PM on 12/16/2010

I'm not terribly surprised to learn this--many websites that formerly offered the option to save bookmarks to Delicious have stopped offering this choice.

A couple of years ago, the New York Times stopped allowing online readers the choice of saving bookmarks to their articles. Everything I had saved was transferred to Furl, and then to Diigo.

I am now in the process of transferring all of my Delicious bookmarks to Diigo--and hoping that Diigo doesn't go away anytime soon!

[milnersXcoupe]

06:18 PM on 12/16/2010

I AVOID YAHOO.COM LIKE THE PLAGUE.

THEIR BUSINESS POLICIES ECLIPSE REAL WORLD LOGIC TIME AND AGAIN
WITH DECONSTRUCTION REGARDLESS BEING THEIR GUIDE.

[Alien Nation]

12:25 PM on 12/18/2010

Says the guy that types in call caps.

[angrykeyboarder]

06:09 PM on 12/16/2010

Thankfully I imported my bookmarks from Delicious to Diigo a few years back. And I've been posting new ones to both simultaneously ever since...

Diigo is actually better, but not as well known.

Yahoo! truly sucks now.

[StrongArm]

06:35 PM on 12/16/2010

Why even bother commenting. Who gives a sh*# that you don't give a sh*#? Leave the comments for people who do care.

[Marie Russell-Barker]

05:28 PM on 12/16/2010

I guess I am slow, I have heard of delicious but never used it so I am unable to comment on it. I can say this that because Yahoo decided to close it down that must have made a lot of people that was satisfied with it very angry. Now they will have to join or not something that they are not connected with strange and having to go about accumulating friends.

[AudsMom]

05:24 PM on 12/16/2010

Never even heard of delicious, but apparently it wasn't so...

[pceasy]

05:46 PM on 12/16/2010

Why is everyone so insulting when someone leaves a comment such as AudsMom did? She only said that she never heard of Delicious, which most of the people I know have no idea what Delicious is.

So come on and insult me. I've never used it, never understood what is was all about, and never figured out how to type the Delicious URL.

I think it's sad that Yahoo is closing this service since so many people use it and many hard working Yahoo employees are losing their jobs. It appears Yahoo has no vision for the future and instead of firing 300 or 800 ppl (can't remember what the figure was supposed to be) maybe it should rid of their CEO, is she really worth 45 million?

[minusjason]

06:55 PM on 12/16/2010

I hope you re-read your post and see how condescending and ridiculous you sound. I spend quite a bit of time online and I've only heard of delicious and stumbleupon in passing. It seems there's something you don't know about the Internet... that there are a lot more people using the Internet than there are using the websites you use.

[Reese Mitchell]

05:21 PM on 12/16/2010

Why doesn't she just give it back to it's creator? Cause she's bit slow. Poor thing. I know, I know she's crying all the way to the bank. Her and Liberace.

[angrykeyboarder]

06:11 PM on 12/16/2010

Huh?