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• Chris Thomson  |  Oct 19 2009 at 6:03 pm

  Will Delicious eventually require a Yahoo ID? How does the API work with Yahoo IDs? Will there be OAuth/Flickr-style authentication system for the Delicious API in the future?

• Chris  |  Oct 19 2009 at 6:14 pm

  Hi Chris,

  Apologies. It looks like our help pages didn’t get updated.
  For accounts created with a yahoo ID, you can use pretty much the same api’s except:
  1) You need to use OAuth, as per http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/, with Delicious as a scope
  2) use /v2 as the path rather than /v1
  3) You can use http rather than https

  Chris

• Matty  |  Oct 19 2009 at 10:10 pm

  This is optional though, right? A new user won’t be forced to sign up for an unwanted yahoo account, correct?

• Chris  |  Oct 20 2009 at 8:45 am

  H Matty,

  All new Delicious users will need to sign up with a yahoo id. Of course, they don’t have to use it for anything other than Delicious if they don’t want to.
  Existing Delicious users can continue to use their login as they currently do.

  Chris

• Nathan Arnold  |  Oct 20 2009 at 8:46 am

  Matty,

  All new user registrations will have to go through a Yahoo! account. If they don’t have a Yahoo! account, they’ll have to create one. Hopefully, this won’t feel like too much of a hardship, seeing as how new users have always had to register, just now it’ll be via Yahoo!

  Existing Delicious users can continue to sign in with their Delicious account login.

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 2:30 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• Dan  |  Oct 20 2009 at 2:49 pm

  I agrre with matty, the hassle of going through yahoo is annoying!
  With 62 sites, i hardly have the modivation to re-sign up for new yahoo accounts

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 2:50 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 2:51 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• Delicious(美味书签)�&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 3:15 pm

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• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 3:21 pm

  […] Delicious Registrations Require Yahoo! ID; Twitter OAuth Support Added New registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 3:36 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• Matty  |  Oct 20 2009 at 6:49 pm

  I have to say, after testing this out I’m not impressed. It took over an hour to set up an account - I kept getting yahoo error messages such as “Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later. (Error: #5205)”. I can no longer sign in at the delicious site, I have to switch over to yahoo to sign in. I also had to switch back over to yahoo to change several account settings. As I use several delicious accounts this is going to be a huge hassle. I know I am hardly the only user with multiple accounts - I wish this had been taken under consideration.

• Seo King » Blog Arc&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 10:03 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 20 2009 at 11:05 pm

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 21 2009 at 1:43 am

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• Catherine  |  Oct 21 2009 at 4:42 am

  I think its a real downside that you are now forcing people to sign up via a yahoo account. I don’t want a yahoo account as previously an old yahoo account was hacked.

  To keep people keen you need to make as easy as possible, I think I may now be looking at alternate social bookmarking sites. I can’t encourage my colleagues to sign up to something I personally do not agree in myself. Yahoo accounts are certainly not that common in the UK.

• Bart  |  Oct 21 2009 at 7:00 am

  I wish Delicious ’simply’ was an OpenID enabled site…

  see your page Yahoo page about OpenID and how openID enabled sites make our live easy … - http://openid.yahoo.com/

  What a great opportunity to make your Y!ou campaign about me (or you for Y!ou), by enabling me to be me with regards to my identity. That would mean Y!ou need to allow me to authenticate with My id (even if this was an openID not provided by Y!ou).

  Still think you are delicious!

• nosivadnomis  |  Oct 21 2009 at 7:50 am

  New users would be expected to create a username and password anyway, the fact that this is now a Yahoo! ID is somewhat irrelevant. It just so happens that it comes with all bonuses of a Yahoo! user; free email, great local content tailored towards you and a plethora of other advantages. Feel free to use those Yahoo! benefits or not, that’s really up to you. As long as you see the benefits Delicious gives you, we’re happy. We’d still like you to use those Yahoo! services (because we do), but it’s your call.

  People have mentioned that they didn’t think users with multiple accounts were considered as a part of this change. I can tell you that over the last few years there were many, many meetings that went on for many, many hours about this subject. We took the issue very seriously. The fact of the matter is, there is a very small number of legitimate users with multiple accounts. Ultimately we needed to keep the flow as simple and familiar as possible, and cover the most common user experiences. That’s the route we took and one we’re satisfied with. Would we have liked everyone to click ‘sign in’ and it just work? Sure, but that would have chewed up too much engineering time and stopped our ability to create the features people have been asking for. We’re glad you guys are passionate about the subject because it means you care about the product as much as we do. You’re just going to have to trust us that we thought it through completely, and made the right decision long term for Delicious, Yahoo! and the people that use us.

• Delicious registration su&hellip  |  Oct 21 2009 at 7:51 am

  […] added After years under Yahoo!’s wing; New registrations to Delicious will now support Yahoo! IDs. For now, only new registrations are affected, and in few weeks, all […]

• SearchCap: The Day In Sea&hellip  |  Oct 21 2009 at 1:19 pm

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• Bart  |  Oct 21 2009 at 3:23 pm

  nosivadnomis, thank you for taking the time to respond and explain the reasoning behind this enhancement.

  I love Delicious, Flickr, Pipes and more. I think Yahoo is just great. But when I read this about the delicious login, I could not help thinking about how Yahoo also was one of the first to embrace OpenID.

  When I looked up yahoo’s help pages with regards to OpenID I simply wondered why the wheel had to be reinvented with regards to signin once again.

  Let me explain this differently… When reading Yahoo’s page about openID it seems that Yahoo is saying it would like to help make signing in easier across the web. Or in other words it seems you encourage OTHER websites to implement openID so they can use Yahoo’s ID (OpenID). Why not practice what you preach. Or… why have long meetings to discuss signin.

  There must be some disconnect between different parts of yahoo or simply some details that I do not understand… or perhaps I am supposed to understand with regards to the level yahoo intentions to support OpenID.

  Please understand I do not mean to complain I just thought it might be an opportunity for yahoo to reach out to us and make this (Y!ou) campaign about us. You already support OpenID and this could be the ultimate! Allowing us to use an ID that is OURS instead of yours (yahoo, delicious etc).

  ps I love you ;-)

• Justin  |  Oct 21 2009 at 3:51 pm

  Not sure how to reconcile this:

  “For accounts created with a yahoo ID, you can use pretty much the same api’s except:
  1) You need to use OAuth, as per http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/, with Delicious as a scope” (Chris’ comment above)

  With this:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124368163@N01/4032765051

• New Delicious Registratio&hellip  |  Oct 22 2009 at 6:18 am

  […] registrations to Delicious will now require a Yahoo! ID. The move comes several years after Yahoo! acquired the social bookmarking […]

• robin w  |  Oct 22 2009 at 7:51 am

  I hate it that I have to sign in with a yahoo ID. I use it for my classes. Each class has a different login so now I have to have a bunch of different Yahoo IDs and that is annoying. Also yahoo connected my IDs and is showing my name and DO NOT want that. totally invasive. I don’t want all class members of one class to have to look at unrelated bookmarks so I have to have multiple accounts. Sorry Delicious , I guess I won’t be using you…

• Nathan Arnold  |  Oct 23 2009 at 7:56 am

  Robin — You can specify any display name you want on delicious by editing the “Display Name” field on your yahoo profile edit page:

  profiles.yahoo.com/edit/basicinfo

  You can put in any name here, and be as anonymous as you like. Seeing as you are a teacher, and you have expressed a desire to remain somewhat anonymous, I would recommend you put the name of your class in there.

  Alternately, since switching between multiple Yahoo! accounts does take a little more effort, Delicious does have functionality that would make it possible to maintain multiple lists of bookmarks under just one account.

  You could differentiate bookmarks from different classes by simply adding a class-specific tag to each bookmark. So, let’s say you have a both a geography101 and history101 class, you would direct students to:

  delicious.com/yourAccount/history101/
  or
  delicious.com/yourAccount/geography101/

  and they would see just those bookmarks tagged specifically for that class.

  To search just one set of bookmarks, add the string “tag:history101″ to any search query and it will limit results to that corpus.

  Hope that helps. We really do feel like most use-cases are covered with these recent changes. If you have a specific use-case that has become exponentially more difficult, let us know and we’ll see if there’s a solution for that particular problem.

• Mel  |  Oct 23 2009 at 9:53 am

  I’m just wondering why Yahoo! maintains their bookmarking feature if they are going to have everyone sign into Delicious with their Yahoo! user name anyway. Seems like duplicated effort to me.

• Britta Gustafson  |  Oct 23 2009 at 1:09 pm

  Mel: Delicious and Yahoo! Bookmarks have many similarities and many differences. Note that they have different focuses (social bookmarking vs. private bookmarking) and different specialized features (for example, compare the Delicious browser add-ons with Yahoo! Toolbar’s bookmarks integration). They do have bookmarking in common though, and we have this in mind.

• Corrie  |  Oct 23 2009 at 4:32 pm

  Really disappointed, I use several Delicious accounts for different groups of people and we share the login codes between us so we can all add into the same pool of bookmarks and had planned to set up more groups like this.

  Now that a Yahoo account is required any member of one of these groups can access my contact and profile details through Yahoo. Simply changing the screen name is not enough because yahoo also requires Name, Gender, Birthday and home country. It also requires an alternative email address incase the password is forgotten. To keep it anonymous I would have to set up a separate email address for that too!

  I seriously think you should look closely at the different ways people use your site and explain better how it can be used to meet their needs or risk losing many members.

• Corrie  |  Oct 23 2009 at 4:44 pm

  Now I’m trying to sign into Delicious with my original codes (pre Yahoo) but it keeps directing me to the Yahoo log in. How can I get the original Delicious sign-in please? Thanks

• Alvin  |  Oct 23 2009 at 9:09 pm

  I’m really disappointed. How about those who have their NON-YAHOO emails and would want to join delicious??

  And I agree with people saying the delicious should have used openID.

• Stephen Darlington  |  Oct 24 2009 at 6:00 am

  Note that this change will break most third party Delicious.com clients including mine, Yummy. I am scrambling to make this change as fast as I can but with no documentation still available and the App Store review process it could be a couple of weeks before it’s in the hands of users even if everything goes to plan.

  Please can we have a little more advanced notice before further changes of this magnitude are made?

• Charmian  |  Oct 24 2009 at 8:33 am

  Dammit, I just spend half an hour cursing because I could not register without an yahoo id. Telling us about this change in FAQs would have been apperciated.

• Blogger  |  Oct 24 2009 at 12:45 pm

  It wouldnt be so bad if there were some added benefits of going through yahoo. However it only seems there’s hassle.

• James  |  Oct 24 2009 at 3:29 pm

  I often recommend delicious to my clients, it is a wonderful tool for most businesses. However this latest change will halt that. The businesses I work with would find no value in a yahoo account and it would be incredibly unprofessional of me to encourage them to set up a false yahoo account just to use this site.

  Delicious has been a wonderful tool for not only personal use, but for businesses, schools, and other organizations. It is disappointing that yahoo has decided to restrict this site for personal use only.

• NickM  |  Oct 25 2009 at 5:36 pm

  As others have said, a real disappointment. Delicious is a service in itself (which you have even mentioned yourself distinguishing it from the yahoo private bookmarks vs social bookmarks) and it should remain with that option. The ability to easily create an account unrelated to any other services is valuable to many users. Of course, having the addition for some to sign in or connect with their yahoo/open ID is wonderful, but not for all!

  I also feel this has made it far less professional and far less collaborative. I hope a change to this, offering both choices, will be considered.

• Ed  |  Oct 26 2009 at 1:32 am

  Hi delicious team,

  I’m a long time user (pre-yahoo acquisition) who wants to say congrats and thanks. I totally support this move, as it means you’ll stop having to spend engineering time on maintaining a login system and will be able to focus on improving delicious.

  Ignore the haters. Go forward with making delicious awesome, the same way flickr keeps kicking ass despite all the trolls crying anytime anything is changed.

  Thanks for your efforts, it is appreciated.

• Nathan Arnold  |  Oct 26 2009 at 8:17 am

  James — we’d like to think that a Delicious account is reason enough to open a Yahoo! account :) Plus, businesses can have Yahoo! accounts as well, they’re not just for individuals.

• Sandy  |  Oct 26 2009 at 10:17 am

  Hi,

  I agree with many of the commenters that I think this is a poor decision. I maintain separate delicious accounts and I’m very disappointed that you are requiring a yahoo ID now for a new delicious account.

  I hope you consider bringing back the option for being able to create regular delicious accounts, as well as allowing customers to choose to use their Yahoo ID. Having both options available makes everybody happy.

  Please reconsider!

• Jake Nicoles  |  Oct 26 2009 at 10:20 am

  Hello, congrats on the acquisition.

  I just have a request, i’m in big need of using the API of delicious for some of my work, but it became a whole lot more complicated now with yahoo.

  So my request is if you could hurry the API doc update, or provide a really small example of using the new API.

  Thanks

• Lindsay  |  Oct 26 2009 at 10:40 am

  As an educator, it’s super annoying to have to use a Yahoo account to work with Delicious. 3rd party e-mail services (including Yahoo) are blocked on our school servers, so it’s now impossible to have kids create and maintain individual Delicious accounts. In the past, I was able to create multiple accounts, so we could collectively bookmark with different classes - also now very difficult. This new move puts a signifigant limit on the use of Delicious in education.

• Leo Saumure  |  Oct 26 2009 at 8:16 pm

  We were thinking of using Delicious for our workplace environment, however we are now unable to utilize it as Yahoo is one of many services that are blocked from our servers. Is there anyway to implement both YahooID as well as one’s own sign in ID?

• Peter  |  Oct 27 2009 at 12:28 am

  That’s good Idea i think, cause everything is going to be connected, we using same things in our country. Yahoo ID’S and DEL.ICIO.US ID’S to connect account.

• melissa  |  Oct 27 2009 at 1:36 pm

  “New users would be expected to create a username and password anyway, the fact that this is now a Yahoo! ID is somewhat irrelevant.” Not that irrelevant. Delicious has just become useless in our government workplace. While our library account still works, we are unable to help our patrons set up new accounts as all web-based mail services are blocked. We’ll now be looking for an alternative. The majority of government department and hospital libraries will be facing the same issue

• Ben  |  Oct 27 2009 at 8:23 pm

  Yeah this is very annoying. I have never used Delicious before and went to sign up today, but I’ve completely changed my mind after being redirected to Yahoo’s site. I’m quite happy using Google’s services so I don’t want to be giving my personal information out to Yahoo at all.

  Also, it appears that because now that you have to sign up via a Yahoo account, you don’t get a username, which is essential for using applications like Delibar no?

  This is a terrible idea on your part.

• Britta Gustafson  |  Oct 27 2009 at 10:34 pm

  Jake Nicoles: Yahoo! acquired Delicious in 2005, but we just recently released this integration of the login systems. :) Chris Draycott’s comment near the top of this thread has information about the API, and you can also see this developer thread.

  Lindsay, Leo Saumure, melissa: Thank you for these comments about Yahoo! being inaccessible in your workplaces. I don’t have a solution in mind yet, but this is helpful to know. We very much appreciate the extensive use of Delicious in schools, libraries, businesses, and other organizations.

  Ben: Delicious has been part of Yahoo! for several years, so I imagine that even without this integration with the Yahoo! ID system, you may have wanted to be cautious about registering for a Delicious account. (Here’s the Delicious Privacy Policy, if you’d like to read it.) Note that people who sign up via Yahoo! IDs still choose Delicious usernames; the experience is not much different on a practical level.

• Using The Delicious API W&hellip  |  Oct 27 2009 at 10:57 pm

  […] October 19th, Delicious announced that they began support of Yahoo IDs. Unfortunately, that blog post did not mention how this affects using the Delicious API. At the time of writing this, there is no […]

• sw  |  Oct 28 2009 at 12:35 pm

  Using Yahoo addresses, exclusively, for those joining eliminates those that want to join using a gmail account.

  Last year my students used delicious as a research tool. They have gmail accounts assigned to them. This year we can not join because our students only use gmail accounts.

  Can this problem be solved by Tuesday, as I planned to teach students to initiate their research by saving their bookmarks to delicious?

• Gav  |  Oct 28 2009 at 9:03 pm

  I’m really disappointed at this move. It makes managing multiple delicious accounts cumbersome. This is clearly a marketing ploy to get people to sign up with yahoo. It really limits what I can do in an education setting.

• kamal43032  |  Oct 30 2009 at 3:29 am

  i am new user please help me to convert the yahoo account on delicious

• Nancy Keane  |  Oct 31 2009 at 4:05 am

  I love using delicious with my 8th graders to show them the power of social bookmarking. But adding the requirement of having a yahoo account just is asking for too much information to make it usable. Is there anyway a teacher can sign up for multiple accounts so we don’t have to give out information about the students?

• Helen  |  Oct 31 2009 at 5:25 am

  I rejoined delicious recently and noticed you could only sign up and then in with your yahoo! ID. I DO have yahoo! but I prefer to keep it for mail, so I tried it anyway and found it a pain as before when I was logging in using a bookmarklet (I don’t use the add-on sorry) it popped up for me to sign into yahoo! and then directed me back but my yahoo email - as you have to type the whole thing in not just the ID - is longer, my password more complicated as I use a strong long one and it became tedious logging in.

  So I lasted an hour and left as I don’t store cookies, logins etc for security reasons. I am quite sad and wished I had not shut my old one but too late and it is my own fault.

  I loved delicious :( now it’s not as delicious UNLESS you can make it so you can sign in with your username / url you pick in the beginning (shorter for some) and it makes it a tad easier / better.

  Well thanks for listening and have a great day.

• Helen  |  Oct 31 2009 at 5:30 am

  Ooops, sorry, typed a but wrong, when I used a bookmarklet before - it just logged me in, now I have to click login with yahoo! id, type all my email and Y! password then get directed back to delicious to bookmark.

  Also forgot to mention that it I use Firefox and Opera but the new system will not work in opera browser, the bookmark on delicious bookmarklet just loops at yahoo login :( but I can access my mail with Opera?

• Money  |  Oct 31 2009 at 1:07 pm

  Well, at least once you’ve gone through the hassle the first time, you can usr the same account for all your bookmarks.

• Azam  |  Nov 3 2009 at 6:11 am

  Hi,

  I have register an account on delicious using Yahoo. I want to change the screen name. Can anyone please help me to do this

  Thanks

• Fania  |  Nov 3 2009 at 10:19 am

  That is really excellent. I am a new guy in delicious. Hope it could be better.

• lee  |  Nov 4 2009 at 4:23 pm

  i want to try using delicious. but it totally sucks that you have to have a yahoo account. just because of this, i’m not going to bother.

• Yahooooooo......  |  Nov 4 2009 at 11:08 pm

  I wanted to register for delicious.com but I changed my mind when I discovered that I am now forced to sign up for a yahoo mail address first.

  Before, one simply had to provide:
  1. username
  2. password
  3. email

  Now, the following is demanded:
  1. full name
  2. gender
  3. birthday
  4. country
  5. postal code
  6. username
  7. password
  8. security question no 1
  9. answer to security question no 1
  10. security question no 2
  11, answer to security question no 2

  All this just to join a social bookmarking service?!? No thanks!

• moronic  |  Nov 5 2009 at 7:23 am

  Because of this moronic decision, 3rd party delicious apps can’t be used by people who have signed up after this change, since signing in with Yahoo! IDs aren’t supported by Yahoo!’s very own delicious.com API! Great work…

• isabel  |  Nov 5 2009 at 9:44 am

  this option should have been offered as a choice not as a condition. I dont think delicious is what it was any longer. Sorry, but I dont think you did the right decision.
  Anyone knows an alternative to delicious?

• isabel  |  Nov 5 2009 at 9:46 am

  I forgot to add that I also have two yahoo accounts, but dont see the conection between this tools. Delicious was something else. Sorry, I’m very dissapointed

• Britta Gustafson  |  Nov 5 2009 at 2:17 pm

  sw and Nancy Keane: We understand the limitation that this imposes for student settings, and we value classroom use of Delicious, so we knew that Yahoo! registration would be a tough tradeoff in some ways. Teachers can still sign up for multiple Yahoo! accounts and perhaps have students work in teams on a few accounts, although I understand that’s not practical for all situations.

  Gav: As part of Yahoo! for almost four years (the majority of Delicious’ life), we’ve been planning for a very long time to include signing up for Delicious with a Yahoo! account. This isn’t a marketing ploy, but a way to open up more opportunities for useful features across Yahoo! and Delicious. It also allows the Delicious team to focus more on the site itself, since eventually we won’t have to maintain and support a separate account system.

  Azam: We don’t really have a way to change usernames on Delicious except by registering a new account and importing your bookmarks. See our FAQ for details: http://delicious.com/help/faq#accounts

  moronic: Our API does support signing in with Yahoo! IDs, but not all third-party developers have had a chance to fully implement the new system yet. That transition for developers didn’t go as smoothly as it could have, and we have this in mind for the future.

  isabel: As noted above, Delicious has been part of Yahoo! since 2005, so they are actually very closely connected. The new login system does not change central aspects of the way that most people use Delicious. Please let us know if you notice specific problems.

• mens dress shirts  |  Nov 6 2009 at 1:34 am

  i dont know what you people think, but to me, Delicious is so good that it can stand on its own, just dont add everything with Y! all the time

• Tobias Tom  |  Nov 6 2009 at 9:32 am

  »… but not all third-party developers have had a chance to fully implement the new system yet. That transition for developers didn’t go as smoothly as it could have…«

  This might have been for the following reasons:
  * developers did know nothing about the change until it actually changed
  * developers still don’t have any real documentation except blog comments
  * there’s no way for developers to see if it’s an old or a new account

  »…and we have this in mind for the future.«
  I’ll take this as a sign for a brighter future. Delicious is by far the most powerful bookmark service and Yahoo provides it stable and reliable as a (free!) service. If you would just communicate a little bit more with 3rd party developers everybody would be happy.

  P.S. As a developer it’s not so important, but from the user point I would that registering new accounts is now a too huge process. Still, this does not make Delicious a bad platform, you normally sign up only once… and if you already have a Yahoo account, it’s just one click to choose a username.

• r4 card  |  Nov 6 2009 at 9:05 pm

  Delicious is great. I am lovin it.

• Paul  |  Nov 7 2009 at 1:10 am

  That’s great i will now open a delicious account.
  Keep up the good work!!

• Carl Parisien Natick MA  |  Nov 7 2009 at 12:05 pm

  some much needed improvement thanks. Always a great place to come to. Carl Parisien Natick MA

• Blank Label  |  Nov 7 2009 at 11:28 pm

  i support the Yahoo! and Delicious collaboration. if more companies did this, then interacting with the web 2.0 world would be much easier. right?

• Paul  |  Nov 8 2009 at 2:56 pm

  I don’t think Bob Parker agrees, calm down Bob, calm down!!

• Stephen Garcia  |  Nov 8 2009 at 7:50 pm

  Bring on the Yahoo ID login! I can’t ever remember my Delicious login info. Reduce, reuse, and make me remember less.

  Oh, and don’t get me started on how happy this will make API development. Can’t wait!

• mat  |  Nov 10 2009 at 6:07 am

  I had every intention of creating a Delicious account. However, since I am forced to join by creating an additional account (yahoo) I have lost interest.

  I hope that another site similar to Delicious appears where I have the flexability of using my existing email account, without the need of creating a new one.

  I have enough usernames and passwords to remember without having to add more to my list.

  Not a great User Experience when the user wishes to sign up and finds out that they need to create an additional account where they must enter so many user details. This is very off putting for many users and I think you are loosing potential memberships by forcing this upon new users.

• Anselm  |  Nov 10 2009 at 6:33 am

  I am moving to http://www.mister-wong.de this is because they take care of my data and stay lightwight

  but delicious was great!

• Dirk  |  Nov 14 2009 at 10:01 am

  So before it was 5 lines of code to log in and start moving your stuff.
  But now no documentation how to log in with new system (that really sucks)
  And aso yahoo provided sdk are buggies as hell all you get is bunch of errors. Thats sucks and shows a way to move on to somewhere else.

• Corrie  |  Nov 16 2009 at 10:02 am

  Hi, Is anyone going to answer these comments? - many of them have valid concerns or suggestions….kind of feel like we’re being ignored! Thanks

• Britta Gustafson  |  Nov 16 2009 at 5:20 pm

  Corrie: I’m a team member, and I’ve been answering questions in the thread — see above from November 5 for example. Do you have a specific question that hasn’t been addressed yet?

• Bill  |  Nov 16 2009 at 11:13 pm

  As a 6th grade History teacher trying to instill the benefits of collaborative work in my students, your changes to Delicous not only disappoint, they have disrupted the ability of my students to support one another’s research. Delicious has so many benefits, even for 11 year old learners, that I hate to set it aside. These changes, however, will force me to look elsewhere for my use and for my student’s use. It looks like we’re on the way to diigo.

• eric  |  Nov 17 2009 at 1:20 pm

  I would like to know if anyone is answering the comments as well.

• stewart  |  Nov 18 2009 at 8:35 am

  This is bad news. I don’t want a Yahoo account :(

• Pablo  |  Nov 18 2009 at 2:07 pm

  Bad decision, i don’t want a Yahoo account, only use my personal account.

• Ian G. Clifton  |  Nov 18 2009 at 5:59 pm

  Britta or other team member, can you clarify how we should best detect whether a user has a Yahoo account or a Delicious account? Are users themselves expected to self-identify, should we hit one API and then the other if the first didn’t succeed, or is there an easy method to make the determination?

  For those who missed out, documentation is available at http://delicious.com/help/oauthapi

• zelda  |  Nov 19 2009 at 6:47 am

  I must admit, I agree with the majority of previous posters. I don’t need another username I have to remember. If only Yahoo could offer the same option as Windows LiveID does - using any email/username you want. That is how I became member of LiveID, by using gmail account.

  So if only yahoo could offer registering with any email I would register straight away…, but until then…, probably won’t become a member of otherwise this great tool…

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