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• Jeff  |  Jul 9 2007 at 10:34 pm

  I would say one thing I really hope with all the changes is you keep the simple look and feel of del.icio.us as I have loved that from day 1.

  huge del.icio.us fan!

  (jeff)isageek

• BillyG  |  Jul 9 2007 at 10:35 pm

  Having just past 10K saves, I would love to be able to pull my bundles from the API, not just the individual tags. If it’s already possible, please show me how. TIA.

• Mike  |  Jul 9 2007 at 11:51 pm

  I’d love to be able to import bookmarks, and then make them all public (or a selection of them). Sometimes, I find it easier to bookmark a site in my browser, and then later import it to del.icio.us. Clicking the Share button is time consuming, and you guys have a limit on how many you can make public within an hour, to prevent spammers.

  Is there a way around this issue? Eventually, I’d like to have most of my bookmarks on del.icio.us, but the ability to make them public is important to me.

  Also, it would be really cool to be able to apply “popular” tags to a site after it’s saved, not just when initially posting a bookmark, or importing it. I don’t think I use tags enough, and now with tag bundles, I’d be okay with applying a bunch of popular tags to things, and then bundling and tweaking from there (just general cleanup).

  Otherwise, I think the site has been getting better and better since I’ve started using it. Am anxiously looking forward to what you do next! Thanks, guys.

• Mike  |  Jul 9 2007 at 11:52 pm

  Also, line breaks in the blog comments would be great. I had a few of those in that last comment.

• Peter  |  Jul 10 2007 at 12:46 am

  One thing I would like to see an option to view all “not shared” links on a page or several depending on how many the user has.

• nothingnormal  |  Jul 10 2007 at 2:43 am

  i think blue and pink are what makes del.icio.us original. Like joshua said in the groups blue on pink is definitely out but i would like it if you guys can retain a bit of both colors.

  I like that del.icio.us is simple enough to use. I tried ma.gnolia.com and couldn’t figure out how it all works so please retain the simplicity. At the same time i want to come to the site and be wowed. :)

• joshua  |  Jul 10 2007 at 3:09 am

  @BillyG: We’ll have that in the future, but not currently.

  @Mike: We’ll have an option to share imported items. You can edit items now and choose popular tags to add currently. And we don’t run the blog platform right now.

  @Peter: Yes, we’d like to do that.

  @Nothingnormal: I hate the pink stuff. It didn’t get added to delicious until sometime in year 2 anyway…

• Phurge  |  Jul 10 2007 at 3:45 am

  What I would desperately like to see:

  1.Search results to include a tag cloud of related tags. ie don’t only give me a list down the left hand side of the page, but give me a tag cloud of the top 100 tags related to my search terms.

  2. (minor) When I filter my tags by 2 or 5 items, the most prominent tags aren’t in bold blue like they are when I see all my tags. I would like bold blue to be used however I filter my tags

• Xian  |  Jul 10 2007 at 3:51 am

  I’m so curious about all the new things you’re working on!! I hope to see them soon!!!

  Here come my 2 cents:

  - it would be nice if preferences could be saved server-side too, and not only in cookies. It’s boring every time I have to work on a different pc, or on browser with session-only cookies, that i have to set again things like tag options and items per page number.

  - it would be really wonderful if “popular” bookmarks could be viewd eve in with a “multiple tags filter”, like i.e. http://del.icio.us/tag/print+photo

• doomhead  |  Jul 10 2007 at 3:59 am

  It would be good, if the quick editing of the bookmark could work under Opera. I can’t use that, because every time I change something, and refresh (or later visit) the page, the link settings are reverting back to previous state.

• Andrew Harmel-Law  |  Jul 10 2007 at 4:15 am

  The one thing I would change would be to have the search box have focus at page load. Saving me this single click would make me very happy. Hopefully it’s not too late in the process to suggest this.

• BillyG  |  Jul 10 2007 at 7:53 am

  @Nothingnormal: try the ‘Del.icio.us reorganized’ GM script. Your pink is my red and there are other benefits to it as well. I’ve been using it since the day it came out and love it.

• BillyG  |  Jul 10 2007 at 7:53 am

  @Nothingnormal: try the ‘Del.icio.us reorganized’ GM script. Your pink is my red and there are other benefits to it as well. I’ve been using it since the day it came out and love it.

• chrys  |  Jul 10 2007 at 10:17 am

  i’ve used del.icio.us a time or two, and this is honestly the first time that i knew it used salmon pink (color blind). what a n00b!

• magnoliasouth  |  Jul 10 2007 at 10:29 am

  I’m SO looking forward to changes. In no particular order my main issues are: 1. Easier renaming system (please, no more drop down boxes). 2. When typing in my tag at the top of the page, a list of matching tags will appear in real time to select from. 3. Move tag clouds to the bottom, or better still, give us the ability to specify WHERE the tag cloud could be located. 4. Lots of keyboard shortcuts. 5. Ability to set private or friends only as a default.

• Kerim Friedman  |  Jul 10 2007 at 10:30 am

  I’ve been a big fan of del.icio.us for years, but somehow I’ve almost never been able to convince a single one of my friends or family to start using it. This dumbfounded me, but then I remember back to when I first saw the site (long before it became part of Yahoo) and how confused I was. The problem, I think, is that it isn’t something for which we already have an existing model. The first time you use a computer with a GUI it is intuitive because you think “here is a folder”, “here is a document”, “here is my desktop” - there is a familiar analogy which eases us into the system. Social bookmarking, however, is not something that easily fits into a real world analogy and as a result it takes a while to grok why anyone would use the site. I don’t know what can be done to fix this, but hopefully a better understanding of the problem might help.

• Brent  |  Jul 10 2007 at 12:24 pm

  Just keep it simple and fast and fancy free please. Don’t overdesign. Improve the search speed. And please, please don’t make it like magnolia. Thanks.

• Alaska Jack  |  Jul 10 2007 at 12:36 pm

  The lack of mass tagging is really surprising oversight, considering del.icio.us’s status as a Web 2.0 poster child. What del.icio.us needs to do is bring Yahoo’s e-mail engineers over to work on the problem, so they can apply their AJAX-ey drag-and-drop expertise to the problem in a way that makes it fun to mass tag. Obviously, users need to be able to (a) select multiple tags and drag them onto a bookmark; and (b) select multiple bookmarks and drag them onto a tag; but the tricky part is to (c) apply multiple tags to multiple bookmarks, and vice versa. This can be accomplished by using a kind of holding area, like the “tray” Picasa uses for photos. Drag a bunch of bookmarks into the tray, then drag a bunch of tags onto them. (Or, of course, vice versa: Drag a bunch of tags into an empty tray, then drag the bookmarks onto them.)

• Alaska Jack  |  Jul 10 2007 at 12:39 pm

  Tags can be structured. Yes, I understand hierarchical tags are anathema to the whole folksonomy concept. So instead of thinking “hierarchies,” think “subsets.” Let’s say I have two tags: “entertainment” and “movies.” I should be able to tell del.icio.us that “movies” is a subset of “entertainment,” so bookmarks tagged with “movies” will always automatically be tagged with “entertainment” as well. Since we hate hierarchies, I should be able to set up more than one “parent”; so an essay tagged “banking” would automatically be tagged with “finance” and “webservices.”

• Alaska Jack  |  Jul 10 2007 at 12:42 pm

  The Firefox toolbar needs work. Yes, I understand that this isn’t the core Del.icio.us site, but don’t underestimate the importance of letting people integrate your service with their client-side work habits. Specifically (a) You can’t have both tags (i.e., drop-down lists) and bookmarks on one toolbar. I want drop-down lists with a few common categories (e.g., “news,” “sports,” “tech”) plus a few bookmarks I use so frequently I just want one-click access to them (Google, my intranet, etc). (b) The FF toolbar doesn’t allow dividers, or custom ordering of items within a drop-down menu. (c) Setting up submenus is problematic. At this point, the only solution that I can find is to set up an RSS feed of the bookmarks you want in a submenu, then assign to the feed the tag of the parent menu. Clunky and unintuitive to say the least. (d) Can’t change the names of menus. This is important. Let’s say I want to set up a menu item for sports bookmarks — but not ALL of them, just the ones I commonly use every day. So I round up my “sports” tagged bookmarks and apply an additional tag of “linkstoolbar” to some of them. Then I set up a menu item for all tags marked (sports+linkstoolbar). But the “Manage Favorite Tags” function won’t let me rename the menus, so I get big clunky names in my menu like “sports+linkstoolbar,” “tech+linkstoolbar,” “news+linkstoolbar,” etc. — Just trying to help.

• Nick Nguyen  |  Jul 10 2007 at 2:27 pm

  Hi Alaska Jack,

  Thanks for the suggestions- we have quite a few ideas in the works for the extension and you should expect it to evolve just as the core site will. Your feedback was thoughtful and well reasoned, we’ll definitely consider it for the future.

  -n.

• JMC  |  Jul 10 2007 at 2:57 pm

  I really like the site’s UI… so much that I was going to switch from google bookmarks to delicious. that’s when I encountered the API. I wrote a script to post bookmarks to delicious, observing all of the guidelines about delays between requests. I kept getting 503 errors after a few posts. I would wait a while, and try again only to be throttled. Delicious’s API looks nice on paper, but functions horribly and is unreliable. BOO.

• Joshua Schachter  |  Jul 10 2007 at 4:12 pm

  JMC: 503 means you were throttled. Send more details to us on the feedback page and I can look into it?

• kate andrews  |  Jul 10 2007 at 4:23 pm

  While I wouldn’t mind having other colors to choose from besides pink/blue, I really REALLY hope you keep the “shades of color” coding for # of fellow bookmarkers feature in there, as it’s one of my favorite features and one of the ones I find most useful.

  Also, being able to sort a page-o-links by # of fellow bookmarkers would be an awesome feature.

• Jason  |  Jul 10 2007 at 5:03 pm

  Allow us to cache articles! That’s the only thing preventing me from fully moving from MyWeb all the way to del.icio.us (which I would rather use).

• Nickie  |  Jul 10 2007 at 8:18 pm

  Please, please consider screen reader, and other accessibility issues. I really love delicious right now, and would hate to llose my ability to use it. This is not something that has to mess up any pretty stuff, it just requires good coding.

  Also, please add audio captcha, so that blind people can sign up independently. TIA!

• soxiam  |  Jul 10 2007 at 9:49 pm

  I’m not sure if others have commented about this already but I would really like to see two additional features in the next version of del.icio.us services. The first is “exclude tags” functionality in link rolls and rss feeds. Secondly I would like to be able to leave more than 255 characters in the notes field.

• Trading Goddess  |  Jul 11 2007 at 12:47 am

  Hi!

  Am I doing something wrong? I manually change the number of links I can list from you on my blog, and they don’t show up. Is “100″ the maximum?

  Sorry to ask you here, but I couldn’t find the answer in the FAQ’s.

• bommel  |  Jul 11 2007 at 7:02 am

  what i would like to see:

  - ability to bulk edit tags.

  - the bookmark url in green below the bookmark name (like simpy).

  - ability to sort search results by “newest” and “most bookmarked”.

  - a mobile version of del.icio.us which renders good on 240×320.

  - less site refreshes when i navigate through my own bookmarks (i’m no programmer but guess this means some sort of “ajax”).

  - there are still some bugs like sometimes empty tags which appear from time to time.

  …and…

  a new add-on for ie7. i mean just an entry in the context menu which opens the same polished “add bookmark” dialogue like the ff add-on. that would do it for me. no need for dropdown bookmarks. if the main site needs less refreshes through the use of ajax, the dropdown bookmarks becomes less important.

  …and…

  PLEASE DON’T BLOAT IT!!!!! no shiny graphics and whatnot. seriously! this would be such a bummer!

• Tom Natt  |  Jul 11 2007 at 10:32 am

  There appears to be a timezone issue with the RSS feeds. If you poll the feed a few times you’ll see the creation date for articles jumps 7 hours into the future or past. It only varies between the two values. If it is a timezone thing, can you either encode in a standard way or include your timezone information so we can correct ourselves?

• Kitter  |  Jul 11 2007 at 2:13 pm

  As remember, few months ago i need to change timezone format to offset workzone. I did it at opera, but zone don’t changes and redirect me everytime to standart option :( In IE all changes has been made normally, maybe this problem need to be fixed?

• Joshua Schachter  |  Jul 11 2007 at 5:05 pm

  @Xian: Some preferences are in the browser because they relate to different computers specifically; I want to show more rows on my big desktop than on my small laptop. We’re working on a better popular algorithm.

  @Andrew: I’ll add it to the list.

  @magnoliasouth: the default tag views will be just the most used tags, so the page weight is lower; this should help.

  @kerim: Yeah, we need to work more on this, but it’ll be a start.

  @brent: we’re working hard on the search speed; this is one of the few things that haven’t been moved to yahoo technology yet.

  @Alaska Jack: We will have more bulk tagging. We probably won’t have just plain drag and drop (this is not a paradigm most folks are used to in web pages.)

  @jason: caching is in the future, not this release, i’m afraid.

  @Nickie: We will try.

  @soxiam: yes, we are extending the notes field!

  @Trading Goddess: We only allow a limited amount of items. If you want to do more with the data, you need to use the delicious API.

  @bommel: definitely good ideas

  @Tom Natt: I have engineers looking at this now, thanks for pointing this out. Probably one server not set to GMT

• Michael Massing  |  Jul 12 2007 at 3:55 am

  Thanks for the report, and as always for your continuing development. I hope you heard from some of your testers that they would like bundle names to be searchable (i.e., their included links returnable by bundle, preferably subheaded by tags); and that the tag-returns header annotation option be extended to the home page (and to the hypothetical bundle-return pages). Such a user annotation at the beginning of the home page could go a long way toward making the site more comprehensible and navigable to non-users (e.g., with a general note on my particular organization, a recommendation to use clouds, or an explanation of the search box, including combining search terms). And by the way, I hope you keep the undocumented option to separate multiple search terms with a space rather than a ‘+’. Best, M.

• David Warren  |  Jul 12 2007 at 8:36 am

  I love del.icio.us! I worry that it won’t last and that would be a BIG problem for me.

  1. I never see any ads so how do you guys make money?

  2. Is there a way that I can backup my del.icio.us tags / links?

  Thanks.

• Johannes  |  Jul 12 2007 at 1:44 pm

  I would recommend to keep the simplicity and use of white on the page. I like it that it is clean and not too busy.

  I would like to have extended functionality in the management of my network (subgroups of people/friends/colleagues) - I would also like a function that allows me to send a msg. together with a certain link that I share with friends. I add this msg. (eg. “check this link out how cool”) now to the notes area of the link, but that is not really where it belongs.

  I would also like delicious to allow me to sort my links in more ways than just chronologically. Maybe according to “people who also saved this link”. The latter would be very handy in the general search box, outside of my own links collection.

  Thank you overall for this service. I really did change my surf experience and it has already proven very effective.

• Michael Massing  |  Jul 12 2007 at 8:56 pm

  Yes, sort options for link groupings would be great: an alpha sort comes to mind, of course, since I use del.icio.us as a shared reference file. And could we please have consistent reproduction and behaviors with respect to capitalization? Having capitalized bundles sort first is a good option (maybe not as good a default, but that’s another question), except when use of the Firefox toolbar overrides it - speaking of which, the toolbar seems to have far too much power to override/overwrite basic display settings on the page itself. If a tag has been intentionally capitalized or through-capitalized, it’s annoying to have that stripped out by the toolbar or by autocomplete; among other things, that creates duplicate tags when exporting to a system that does distinguish and honor capitals - geez, that sounds like it gives them a medal or something, but you know what I mean. ;^) Thanks again!

• Joshua Schachter  |  Jul 13 2007 at 12:28 am

  @Michael Massing: yes, these things are coming.

  @David Warren: We’re at Yahoo and we’re not going anywhere. You can backup your bookmarks on the settings page, see “export”

  @Johannes: We’ll add more sort types as well.

• keronii  |  Jul 14 2007 at 4:50 am

  Hi,

  Can you briefly describe the selection criteria of your 20 participants?

  I am really curious about it.

  Thanks.

• Frau Ratanaphon Nokthaban  |  Jul 14 2007 at 2:33 pm

  Maybe me stupid or misunderstand that ? Please give more details !

• Maxime  |  Jul 15 2007 at 9:09 am

  Why del.icio.us doesn’t work today ?

• bendrix  |  Jul 15 2007 at 2:04 pm

  First of all I absolutely love delicius tags - You guys have done an incredible job, I am a true loyalist :)

  What I’d love to see

  1. I wish you could click on a bundle and create an RSS feed and tag cloud for that bundle (see how my bundles are arragned)

  2. I’d like to see more coumminity interaction with fellow members on delicious, like contact info and ways to commuincate with one another

  3. I’d like to see bundles as part of the page rather than just dividers on the right side.

  4. I really really wish there was a collective way to check and uncheck the sharing bookmarks feature… rather than doing each one individually.

  5. Maybe I’m missing something, but I have no idea how this “daily blog posting” works. It would be nice to have examples to show implimentation.

  Thats all I can think of for now… I really love this app and want to see it become even more usable and friendly to newer users. Thanks for such a great experience

• Graham  |  Jul 15 2007 at 4:14 pm

  Just keep it the way it is, if it works don’t fix it. Another project.. Del.icio.us 2

• Pete  |  Jul 15 2007 at 8:42 pm

  Some sort of automated integration with Wordpress would be great i.e. everything I tag documentary being added to my blog’s list of documentaries (which in wordpress I actually slightly oddly add under “blogroll”).

  Beside lacking this personal feature want, I absolutely love it as it is! Thanks.

• Norman  |  Jul 16 2007 at 5:45 am

  I love the new Firefox extension. The only gripe, is that the ‘tag’ button should change colour for pages that you’ve _already_ tagged. This way you know before you click the button, that it’s already in your bookmarks!

  Otherwise a great extension, many times better than the classic one!

• joshuasbones  |  Jul 16 2007 at 7:29 pm

  I would like the ability to go back in time and give sad people hugs.

• Pete  |  Jul 16 2007 at 8:02 pm

  Ahhh… reference my last comment… scrap it. You guys provide exactly what I need already! Thanks!

• Donnie  |  Jul 18 2007 at 10:10 am

  Tags: photography , black-white , people , Art

• joshuasbones  |  Jul 18 2007 at 2:02 pm

  How about spam prevention on these blog comments? ;]

• egho  |  Jul 18 2007 at 5:36 pm

  http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/googles_authent.html

• Adam Sandberg Ericsson  |  Jul 18 2007 at 6:03 pm

  One thing I’ve been thinking about is while making tag bundles, it qould be perfect if you could choose which tags to show. Options like Hide all tags currently in bundle, Show only unbundled tags and Show only tags not in current bundle.

  This is a feature I’ve wanted for a very lng time!

  —-

  If you answer to this, can you please send me an email? Mail address is popz(dot)2k[at]gmail[dot]com

• peter ballantyne  |  Jul 20 2007 at 2:23 pm

  love delicious

  please dont change the basic simplicity

  if the notes field can be a bit longer would be useful

  would love to be able to sort bookmarks or somehow see which bookmarks i have saved have also been saved by the most other people. ie, the ‘popular’ option for my account

  multilingual navigation?

  automatic (or click to run) link checker for my account

  as well as showing how often an item has been saved, how often it has been clicked through

  thanks

• Jaff  |  Jul 21 2007 at 4:44 am

  would love to be able to make a lost of bookmarks with a tag as private - Private for imparts is great - just need to be able to do the same retrospectively on a list of bookmarks, that are alsreadty there. I suppose i could export, delete and re-import ?

• chalie  |  Jul 21 2007 at 7:22 am

  Simple is beautiful! ;-) Bitte macht aus del.icio.us keinen Obstsalat, damit das Angebot weiter benutzbar bleibt. Aber leider sitzt Euch die Parent Company im Nacken…… Gewinne sollen erzielt werden und wann erfolgt der Börsengang? Klar von Luft und Liebe allein kann keiner lange Überleben. Habt eine gute Zeit.

  charlie fröhlich

• Lanad  |  Jul 22 2007 at 2:12 am

  Nice . You are doing a great job.

• ceviri  |  Jul 22 2007 at 3:25 pm

  Just keep it simple and fast and fancy free please. Don’t overdesign. Improve the search speed. And please, please don’t make it like magnolia. Thanks

• ceviri  |  Jul 22 2007 at 3:27 pm

  Just keep it simple and fast and fancy free please. Don’t overdesign. Improve the search speed. And please, please don’t make it like magnolia. Thanks

• george  |  Jul 23 2007 at 10:34 am

  grow even faster? you guys aren’t growing, you’re shrinking.

• Devang  |  Jul 23 2007 at 5:00 pm

  Make the site faster please, deleting/renaming tags is painfully slow.

  I happen to agree with the most disappointing statement overheard, but I don’t mind tagging as long as they are used as metadata when I search for a link I’ve forgotten because if I’ve forgotten the link I’ve probably forgotten the tag too. As long as I’m talking about search, a broader search that indexes the text on the linked page would be nice too. Something google co-op-ish would work.

  Looking forward to the beta!

• Will  |  Jul 24 2007 at 4:07 pm

  Really pleased to hear that a major upgrade and redesign is on the way. I’d been worrying about the lack of improvements to the site in recent months - on the front end at least.

  There are a number of changes I’d like to see to the site (some of these have already been covered in the comments above):

  1 - Increase the 255 character limit on the description field

  2 - Introduce cacheing of the entire page. Additionally, maybe have some kind of DOM based editor to edit the pages you save and get rid of any extraneous content.

  3 - Ability to view bookmarked pages from an individual domain - so I could view all my bookmarks from bbc.co.uk for example. Would be a useful way to check duplicates for example.

  4 - Improved sorting of bookmarks - Be able to view all bookmarks I made in February 2006 for example. Perhaps have some kind of javascript powered dynamic timeline - visualise bookmarking activity over time.

  5 - Statistics - Graphs and charts of bookmark activity - see new Google Analytics for inspiration.

  6 - Improve bundling of tags - allow spaces in bundle names; make the process quicker - ajaxify it.

  7 - Centre justify the page and give it a max-width of something like 960px - otherwise line lengths become unwieldy and difficult read on larger displays.

  8 - Move to delicious.com for good. It’s time to ditch the awkward domain.

  9 - New visual identity. The delicious logo isn’t really a logo is it? It doesn’t represent anything. Needs to go.

  10 - Introduce StumbleUpon-like feature to toolbar - visit random bookmarks, suggest pages I might like to visit.

  There are of course loads of things I really like about delicious, and therefore things that I don’t want you to change:

  1 - Maintain the generous amounts of white-space. Don’t let the site get cramped.

  2 - Resist the temptation to Web 2.0-ify it, i.e. no gratuitous gradients.

  3 - Keep the colour scheme simple and predominantly white.

  4 - Increased use of colour and/or icons to distinguish between different features/functions.

  And that’s about all for now. Keep up the good work.

• Patrick  |  Jul 25 2007 at 9:33 am

  Is it possible to mark tags as private?

  Would be great if this is possible!

  Grz

  Pat

• vipul  |  Jul 26 2007 at 10:44 am

  Hi,

  I am using delicious from last 20 months and i am glad to be a user of delicious.com.

  I have a question, How delicious is deciding which URL to be placed under ” Hotlist” tag i mean on which condition it placing the saved URL on Hot list.

  Thanks

  Vipul Gupta

• strip-poker  |  Jul 26 2007 at 12:46 pm

  Hi.There appears to be a timezone issue with the RSS feeds. If you poll the feed a few times you’ll see the creation date for articles jumps 7 hours into the future or past. It only varies between the two values.

• James Governor  |  Jul 27 2007 at 5:28 am

  tag analysis and cleaning tools. ability to compare tag tag libraries with contacts, and build joint tag clouds.

• RAY  |  Jul 27 2007 at 6:14 am

  HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR FEEDS/ WHAT DO I USE TO VIEW THEM? WHAT TYPE OF READER DO I USE? CONFUSED!!

• Funny BeinG :-))  |  Jul 27 2007 at 9:27 am

  I think that simplicity is what matters and delicious design is really good at it. Layout changes should not mess things up too much.

  Anyway.. you are doing great so far and i am sure whatever change you decide will be for the benefit of your users. Keep up :-)))))

• Mike  |  Jul 27 2007 at 10:23 am

  My only complaint about del.icio.us is the way it often ignores my changes to tags. I often have to keep the tab open for several minutes before my change finally “kicks in”. If I close the tab or reload the page my changes will be wiped out before they are sent to the server.

• juniorbonner  |  Jul 31 2007 at 10:35 am

  Taken your time in making some improvements. Others have stealed your thunder. I now use Diigo, which provides most of the service features requested above, it also auto posts to del.icio.us so you can still use your del account as a backup for bookmarks.

• Tina  |  Aug 1 2007 at 11:26 am

  Delicious is already great! Please don’t make it too complicated - I like the fact that it just does what it is meant to, without all the bells and whistles.

  Oh, but private bookmarks would be good ;-)

  Tina

• Ed B  |  Aug 20 2007 at 11:40 am

  3 wish list things

  1) I would LOVE to be able to enumerate a clickable list of bundles on my website with JavaScript much like we can reference enumerate lists of tags.

  2) when working with “bundle tags” in settings, the color highlighting of tags is great but I wish it would highlight unbundled orphan tags in another color. With many tags established, its is a bit of a challenge to locate any orphans among the soft page colors. May I suggest yellow?

  3) The pink outline for “bundled elsewhere” is nice, but I wish it were easier to distinguish from the pink highlight for those in the active bundle. So I guess I’m asking for a different “bundled elsewhere” outline color to aid in seeing a tag is both in the current bundle AND “bundled elsewhere”. May I suggest a black or blue?

  Super site and thank you for it. I wish you good luck in this service venture.

• Jauder Ho  |  Nov 15 2007 at 3:39 am

  One huge feature request would be for twitter to del.icio.us integration.

  I’ve written it up over here. http://urltea.com/2414

• Dom Delimar  |  Nov 15 2007 at 11:50 pm

  One thing I would really need is more space to write notes. As it is now 255 characters is not always enough.

  The scary thing is I only found about that recently because there was no warning on the Posting page and the system would simply crop my long notes to 255 characters without any warning at all.

  As I look back, I’ve lost more than a few of my notes not even being aware of it.

  That’s just bad usability in my eyes.
  Please add more space for notes…

• Britta Gustafson  |  Nov 16 2007 at 9:47 pm

  Yes, the new version has a limit of 1000 characters and gives you a count-down so you know how many you have left.

• Dom Delimar  |  Nov 17 2007 at 2:58 am

  Wonderful! Thanks!
  Can’t wait for the new version (I just saw on another post you said: “Probably [in] a couple months or so, give or take a few weeks…ish.”) and that’s why I’m on the preview list now, hopefully using the new version very soon-ish! ;)

• bedava ödev indir  |  Nov 20 2007 at 5:06 am

  thanks good post

• Pierre  |  Dec 1 2007 at 11:52 am

  curious about whether the maximum character-size for notes can possibly be multiplied by 50,000… -

  I know its not really the point, but i tend sometimes to select/notes/tag, to keep content accessible as clippings-like-reference, even if a page goes down… - in which case I can just refer to my notes - but the max characters is 4096 chacters. any chance? open to other suggestions.. thx - Pierre

• Pierre  |  Dec 1 2007 at 11:53 am

  :) - just read the post above - :) thx!

• Alix E. Peshette  |  Dec 12 2007 at 11:00 am

  I love Delicious as a bookmarking system! It HAS totally changed my life.

  As an avid bookmarker of educational technology sites, my tagging got way out of control. I now I am going through my tags, deleting ones that have been used less than 3 times. I would like to see a way to delete multiple tags at once.

  -Thanks,
  Alix

• Accommodation Beijing  |  Jan 14 2008 at 4:33 pm

  I’m so curious about all the new things you’re working on!! I hope to see them soon!!!

• FuriKuri  |  Jan 16 2008 at 3:59 am

  Zzzz…

• Peter  |  Jan 24 2008 at 5:03 am

  As the brain responds better to images than millions of words filling a screen - how about de.licio.us bookmarks including favicon images.

  Many people I have spoken to have shied away from using de.licio.us because it is a 100% text based bookmarking system.

• kamell  |  Jan 29 2008 at 12:07 pm

  Please help me i wish to add de.licio icon to my blog

• Britta Gustafson  |  Jan 29 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Peter: thanks for the suggestion. We’re considering a few different ways to involve more pictures in bookmarks (the current image thumbnails on Flickr bookmarks are a nod to that) while keeping in mind that other people like the current focus on text.

  Kamell: there are instructions on this page for putting del.icio.us icons on your blog: http://del.icio.us/help/savebuttons

• Justin M.  |  Feb 9 2008 at 12:27 pm

  Yeah, so I just signed up for service on del.icio.us and, being an avid Flickr user I’m a bit surprised by some features which seem to be lacking… namely:

  -SORT - I can’t sort my search results based on popularity, relevance (maybe prioritize a certain tag?)??… wow, without this the site seems so much more like any old search engine!!

  -FORUM - what gives? It would be nice for a better place for discussions, questions, answers

  -HELP SEARCH - maybe I haven’t looked enough, but I can’t even find a search feature on the multiple help pages (and some seem to be outdated - I found one page that tells me I can’t use the minus as NOT in a search, another that says I can [usually]).

  Anyway, I doubt I’ll get a direct response here, but I hope somehow I can discover these features if they exist and I just haven’t found them, or that they are implemented soon if they really aren’t there.

  Thanks!

• Britta Gustafson  |  Feb 9 2008 at 2:25 pm

  Thanks for the feedback! Those things are actually coming in the next version of Delicious — better sorting, a forum, help search.

  I’m not sure which help pages you’re looking at, but http://del.icio.us/help/search has the correct advanced features for the current seach engine. Maybe you were looking at http://del.icio.us/help/faq#Is_there_a_way_to_use_not_in_tag too? That’s about tag combinations like http://del.icio.us/tag/del.icio.us+yahoo, not the search engine.

• Kommet  |  Feb 11 2008 at 5:07 am

  I don’t see these features mentioned for 2.0 (though I could have overlooked):

  * Linkrot assistance - Periodically verify links and see if they get redirected via (HTTP 301, meta tag “refresh”, or JS). Perhaps this could use an Extension/Browser Helper doing the heavy lifting and just reporting back to delicious to flag redirected links. Could happen when the user tries to follow a bookmark link from delicious itself. I don’t have a good answer on what to do for pages behind logins where users are expected to hit one URL and let redirects drive them in to the (perhaps session-specific) URL they eventually land on.

  * List of untagged bookmarks - Maybe I am just an idiot (REAL possibility), but I’ve never found a way to easily list the delicious bookmarks that I haven’t associated a tag with, or which I have orphaned by removing all their tags during a cleanup.

  * Bulk delete (yeah, seen this requested elsewhere) - I currently use JS script in a bookmarklet when I have a bunch of bookmarks I’m done with (old, never got around to, imported from browser and didn’t want to keep, research project is over, etc.), but each delete is one server action and this sometimes gets me throttled and always takes forever as the script tries NOT to get throttled. Mass flagging and bulk delete would be helpful and should even reduce the server load.

  * Bulk tag updates - A variation on the above: let me select/flag a dozen (or a hundred) bookmarks and add or remove the same tag(s) from all of them in ONE shot. Sometimes I’d like to reorganize (especially after an import), but I can’t practically do this, which really limits utility sometimes.

  * Firefox 3 Places integration - Heard it is in progress, but I’m already running the betas so there is no “too soon” for me on this. :-)

• Britta Gustafson  |  Feb 12 2008 at 2:06 pm

  Linkrot assistance is on our big list of good ideas for the future, and we have some links to helpful existing services here: http://del.icio.us/help/thirdpartytools#dead%20link%20checkers

  Right now, you can get a list of untagged bookmarks by clicking “system:unfiled” in the tag list on the right side of your bookmarks page. In the new version, “system:unfiled” is called “Untagged bookmarks” to make finding it a little easier.

  There will be a bulk editing feature for deleting items and updating tags. This is an often-requested addition.

  Yes, Firefox 3 integration is in progress.

• howard schwartz  |  Mar 16 2008 at 12:31 pm

  There are so many (competing) del.icio.us extensions and addons for Firefox, it is hard to tell which ones slow down Firefox or are memory hogs. Wonder if one can get more functionality with a minimum effect on browser performance.

  For me, the most significant lack in del.icio.us is way to quickly add ttags to bookmarks - e.g., dragging bookmarks to tags, or a hotkey
  tthat brings up a menu of (previous) tags

• howard schwartz  |  Apr 4 2008 at 1:35 pm

  A major problem I, (and probably others) have, is how to efficiently ttag a large number of untagged URLs we collected before using del.icio.us. A great way to do this is illustrated by the Firefox flat bookmark editing entension:

  Create a window with fields for URL, tags, and descriptions that changes fields as one scrolls one’s bookmarks. At any time one can type tags in the tags field. Thus, one need not open a dialogue box, type in the tags, and then close the box — for each bookmark.

• George  |  May 19 2008 at 11:35 am

  Any idea when these promised upgrades or features will finally show? The 255-character limit to the Notes field is particularly frustrating. I’m presenting del.icio.us to the faculty at my college in a couple weeks, and I’d LOVE to be able to tell them when they can create lists of sites for their students and actually have room to create a decent annotation. Changing the sort order under tags would also be really, really helpful. Thanks.

• michael  |  Jun 2 2008 at 1:58 pm

  I only use delicious for the Firefox bookmark extension — love it! The site is so ugly, though, that I go to great lengths to avoid ever seeing it.

• Sharon Elin  |  Jun 7 2008 at 4:36 pm

  I would like to be able to re-order my bookmarks rather than always have them in the default time-posted chronological order.

  –sort by date (as the default, but also allow reversed order)
  –sort by assigned number (as in a netflix.com queue)

• Britta Gustafson  |  Jun 8 2008 at 3:09 am

  We’re working on including the options to sort by date reversed, sort by alphabetical order, and sort by popularity. Sorting by assigned number might be too tricky, but we can think about it.

• sebastian  |  Jun 16 2008 at 1:47 pm

  I love delicious. What about pushing it into a kind of open networking platform? Some sort of twitterkiller? I had some thoughts on that on http://www.vpx.cc - would love to hear your ideas.

• Yohman  |  Jan 12 2009 at 10:36 am

  Am I doing something wrong? I manually change the number of links I can list from you on my blog, and they don’t show up. Is “100″ the maximum?

• Britta Gustafson  |  Jan 12 2009 at 11:30 am

  Do you mean using the linkrolls (or feeds)? Yes, 100 is the maximum. You can use the Delicious API (or a tool built on the Delicious API) if you’d like to get more.

• Jacques  |  Mar 30 2009 at 4:53 am

  After watching Delicious evolve overt eh past two years siince I’ve started using it, I am fascinated by having discovered the official blog, and following the story behind the evolution. Good stuff, that really appeals to the techno-geek in me!

• amenda  |  May 15 2009 at 3:30 am

  i am happy with the current theme of the delicious because its really user friendly and its good for all the people to use on any kind of browser and add the add on to bookmarks there links. i love this old one template but i am excited to see the new look for delicious.

• David Nave  |  Jun 3 2009 at 11:52 am

  I would like to a GUI for combining and deleting multiple tags? My tags are a mess, and I need to clean them up, but I can’t find an efficient way to do so. I like the way you can bundle tags, so could you extend that to deleting tags as well?

• acetrip  |  Jul 12 2009 at 1:41 pm

  Hoy all

  cant seem to find how to see my untagged bookmarks.
  would be great to have all my tags on the side and the ability to drag and drop tags on the bunch of untagged or tagged groups of bookmarks, and as well an easier way to choose a bunch of tags and consolidate them to one name. and as well would be great to see in the firefox extension the tag bundles listed in the delicious tags, and the ability to drag tags there into the tag bundles to get things visually organized. then have delicious 100% replace the firefox bookmarks menu, so you could also drag in the extension the untagged bookmarks into tags

  cheers - /\ Ben

• Britta Gustafson  |  Jul 13 2009 at 11:27 am

  acetrip: You can see your untagged bookmarks by clicking “All Tags” in the sidebar on the right side of your Bookmarks page. At the bottom of the All Tags list, you’ll see an item for untagged bookmarks. We’re thinking about improved interfaces for tag editing; thanks for the suggestions!