A Dark Day Has Come...

[beboots]

... Incidentally, I wrote my translation exam this morning. Despite my nervousness, my day wasn't made terrible by that exam, which went rather well! The 60 multiple choice/true or false/fill in the blanks ended up being harder than expected, but the essay question and ad analysis weren't anywhere near as difficult as anticipated! Anyway, we got a huge dump of snow yesterday and last night, so the roads were terrible, but I left at like 7am for my 9am exam and managed to make it with plenty of time to procrastinate studying. ;) 

Anyway, I got home, studied a bit for the women's history exam I have tomorrow afternoon, then watched an episode of the Walking Dead, comfortable that my day was going well. 

Then I got a message from avocado_love . Normally I love getting messages from one of my favourite fanfic authors and all-around awesome person, but today she was helpfully giving me a heads-up that one of my favourite web tools in the whole wide world, which I used innumerable times each day to collect and organize and retrieve the huge numbers of websites I visit, Delicious.com, is going to cease to exist. ;_;

Cue panic moment. Take a moment to take in the glory that is my Delicious account, nay, archive. As of writing this (and probably not much longer), I have 9,529 bookmarks, with 1918 tags. I've been using it since May 2008, and I have ceased to use "regular" bookmarks. I have no idea how to survive without tags anymore. 

Here is the link that Avocado sent to me, the news article that ruined my day. 

Here is a list of ways to backup your Delicious bookmarks (I've done so already, and so should you). 

Here is a list of 10 alternatives to Delicious. I was debating between Diigo and Pinboard, and was favouring the latter for its close similarity to Delicious (apparently it was created by people who formerly worked for Delicious back when it was loved?), but it's a paid feature and I am a poor starving student. At the moment, I've created a Diigo account and I've imported my delicious bookmarks. We'll see how it works. Maybe it'll grow on me. 

Visit me on Diigo here if you want to keep following my movements on the internet (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, MY STALKER FRIENDS...)

In conclusion: I'm sorry, Yahoo!, but I will never look at your excitable logo the same way ever again. I am overcome by an uncontrollable fury. If I had a yahoo e-mail account I would stop using it immediately. You have forever lost my business; if I can any way help it, I will avoid your company and its affiliates as much as possible. >:( 

EDIT: I have also managed to sync my Delicious account with my Diigo account, so theoretically I can keep playing with Diigo while continuing to update my Delicious. Delicious could still be with us for months, I suppose, or it could disappear next week (just in time for Christmas! :P ), so I'm keeping my fingers in as many pies as possible. 

Comments

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd seen it already! Avocado linked to it already in the comments. <3

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I just got back from my exam today. It's all so new! Things move quickly in the electronic age. :)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Hee! *tickles*

[beboots.livejournal.com]

:)

I feel I'm too old-fashioned at heart (must be all of this history nonsense I've been into) and my brain doesn't move fast enough for my era. ;)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Does anyone's? I know I slide into the speed of the internets fairly well, but I also have to do some serious managing to keep the information down to tolerable levels.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

That's why I depend so much on Delicious, because it means that I can cross-reference something really, really quickly. ;) I also rely on others, mostly on LJ and facebook, in some sort of hive mind process. ;)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Twitter and LJ are my hive-mind. So useful!

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten into Twitter. Should I? I trust your opinion. :) I don't quite understand it.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Well, I tend to enjoy it. It's a good news-feed and a good way to quickly get in touch with people/leave short messages. I can dig up some articles I have on Twitter if you think that'd help. I can also point you at various atla people already on Twitter.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

That would be enormously helpful! I'm still debating about whether or not I should sign up... but then again, I was a hard sell on Facebook at first, too... ;)

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite thing for explaining Twitter.

And there's an etiquette post I can throw in later if you decide to sign up. At least you don't stumble around with going "RT? @reply? What?" like I did.

People in AtLA fandom on Twitter:
- sailorv983 aka moonys_autumn; hers is locked
- sharkflip
- gargoylekitty
- Floranna2
- reginleif4a aka flowerflute
- Avocado_Wuv
- lucolite aka luco_millian
- spyridonaa; she hardly uses hers
- neldluva; she hardly uses hers
- Dark_Puck
- the_white_city aka suzukiblu
- beckyh2112

Random other people I think are cool:
- catvalente
- JJONAHJAMESON
- FakeAPStylebook
- VictoriaDahl
- neilhimself
- warrenellis
- seananmcguire
- cleolinda
- scalzi
- wilw
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[beboots.livejournal.com]

Thank you! If this doesn't convince me, nothing will. ;)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I may sign up, so I may need that etiquette post. ;) However, apparently someone already has my username - the name I use for everything, and I've hit a roadblock. ;) I can't even think of any other usernames that I've ever used in recent memory except the gibberish that is my university internet ID... Hmm... You see, it would mostly be fannish and history nonsense, I think, so it makes sense for me to use my fandom name, and not my RL one.

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Stick a significant-to-you number on the end?

Twitter etiquette stuffs.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Good idea. (Speaking of which, are the numbers after your username significant to YOU?)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Also, sadface, a broken link. :(

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Weird, it loads fine for me.

And yeah, they're significant to me. It is both an album and a song.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

(Both Google Chrome and Safari can't find it... Hmm... My Luddite computer skills have failed me! D: )

Also, nice significant number! :D

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Try Firefox? What I can't figure out is why neither of those would load it.

It pleases me. I was tempted to upload the song, but I am not going to sit around half an hour to upload things right now.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I should definitely download firefox at some point. Apparently all the cool kids are doing it. ;)

[kuiskata]

Yes, yes you should. (I converted to Firefox years ago, and never going back.) XD