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• Alan Dean  |  Mar 30 2007 at 12:23 pm

  Any chance that the survey can include an ‘Other’ option with a textbox?

  For example, on the first question I would like to select a “Research” or “Reference” option, but none of the available choices are really descriptive of this, the major way that I use your site.

• stephen  |  Mar 30 2007 at 1:35 pm

  @Alan: looking into it; thanks for the good suggestion.

• eng..ibrahem  |  Mar 30 2007 at 2:40 pm

  blog at this site

• name  |  Mar 30 2007 at 11:10 pm

  Only halfway into the survey it gets all personal with no way to continue without answering that crap too. What has where I’ve worked in the past or live today to do with using a bookmark site? A lot more “that’s certainly none of your business”-checkboxes would help.

• Matej Cepl  |  Mar 31 2007 at 10:34 am

  The reason I am seriously considering switching to ma.gnolia.com –

  http://therning.org/magnus/archives/271 . I have been happy user for couple of years, but it seems to me that since couple of months ago (take over by Yahoo!) del.icio.us seems to be going down the hill and pretty fast.

  I have filled up the survey and if you think that your service is innovative, I have bad news for you — you WERE innovative, but it was couple of years ago, when del.icio.us was created. Since then I honestly don’t know about anything new on your site.

• stephen  |  Mar 31 2007 at 6:01 pm

  @”name”: We ask your age and gender just to get an idea of the demographics of our users; if you don’t want to answer those, there is a “prefer not to say” option. We ask your city, state, and country to get an idea of how our users are distributed around the world; if you don’t want to answer that, no problem, feel free to type as much in the input box and the survey will let you continue. Finally, we only ask you about where you have worked if you say “yes” to participating in future surveys and research. As you might imagine, it could cause issues if someone who signs up for this actually works for a competitor, a research firm, etc, so we just need to ask that up front.

• LH  |  Mar 31 2007 at 9:56 pm

  I’ve been a loyal del.icio.us user for a long time. I use the service extensively and have always been pleased with the site and the service… Until recently. Now I constantly run into server problems, cannot access my bookmarks consistently and etc. What is your problem? In times like this, an age of tech innovation and constant change delicio.us was one of the few things in my hectic techo-centric life that was bautiful because of it’s simplicity and useful because of it’s consistency. I will never understand the need to fix something that isn’t broken. You have managed to jeopardize what has up until now been a good thing.

  At this point I’m searching deliberately for another social bookmarking service unless I have some indication that del.icio.us addresses these issues. When I say address them I do not mean simply say “we’re working on it” but instead explaining what the issue is and how it’s being addressed.

  I’ll give an example from my console after attempting to reload my bookmarks:

  Problem description:

  I use the application menulicious to interface with del.icio.us.

  ===== Friday, March 30, 2007 1:43:11 PM US/Pacific =====

  ##################################

  HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable

  urllib2.HTTPError

  ##################################

  exceptions.Exception HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable

• marg  |  Apr 1 2007 at 1:14 am

  I like using delicious. Is there a way to fix this Yahoo error message #999 I keep getting lately?: –

  Sorry, Unable to process request at this time — error 999.

  Sorry, you’ve been temporarily blocked for accessing del.icio.us too rapidly. This could be the result of using a buggy, misconfigured, or malicious program. It could also be accidental on our part. Please hold off for a few minutes and try again later, in a gentler fashion.

• Duranto ctg  |  Apr 1 2007 at 5:48 am

  :)

• Improbulus  |  Apr 1 2007 at 6:47 pm

  You don’t indicate when the survey will close, surely a pre-requisite if you want to encourage participation! Please would you do so, on this page and the opening page of the survey itself?

  There’s been many a survey I’ve meant to take, but they’ve not included a clear deadline date, and by the time I’ve got round to it and checked with them, it’s over - you’d save lots of time and have more takers if only you made the deadline clear so that busy people can schedule in time to fill it in before the deadline.

• Cory R. King  |  Apr 2 2007 at 8:33 pm

  Forgot to add this to the survey comments:

  Ya’ll need to make a way to mark a whole set of tags as private. Sharing is great, but there are some things (i.e. health related) that are nobodies business. Having to mark every item as private is a huge pain. I’d rather just mark everything in a tag as private.

• joe  |  Apr 3 2007 at 3:49 pm

  PLEASE - why does it take SOOO LONG for your feeds to update in Google Reader????

• shadow  |  Apr 3 2007 at 10:29 pm

  Feedback is good idea, but why not add some other feeds (as google reader) beside our favourite bookmart.

  http://luxl85.blogspot.com

• Paris Hilton  |  Apr 4 2007 at 1:27 pm

  The main problem is your feeds ;-) It takes ages before it’s updating in G Reader. Guys over me are absolutely right :-)

• me  |  Apr 6 2007 at 10:14 pm

  I concur with the comments from @LH and others… del.icio.us is blocking me pretty often now a days….

  what i don’t understand is, whats keeping delicious folks to upgrade their hardware and make it faster… and more responsive.