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• :(  |  Nov 18 2009 at 7:58 pm

  We don’t want this. Why do you have to forcefully integrate everything into Yahoo’s login? You did this to Flickr, too. It was “optional”, too, at first, but then became mandatory.

  We didn’t sign up to these sites so we could use them with Yahoo and have stuff cross-posted to Yahoo accounts. The more time you waste on this stuff, the less time you have to spend on building stuff that we actually asked for.

• Justin  |  Nov 18 2009 at 10:13 pm

  If I merge my Delicious accounts with my Yahoo! account, can I use third-party applications to access and post to my bookmarks?

• Mike Delpach  |  Nov 19 2009 at 3:39 am

  Have to agree with this:

  We didn’t sign up to these sites so we could use them with Yahoo and have stuff cross-posted to Yahoo accounts. The more time you waste on this stuff, the less time you have to spend on building stuff that we actually asked for.

  Please support searching for multiple tags in Delicious sidebar. This feature has been requested for months but I only see features suggested by corporate fat cats.

• Mike Delpach  |  Nov 19 2009 at 3:44 am

  Don’t worry, the link to get to your content won’t change. If delicious.com/i_am_awesome was your link before, it will still be your link after.

  Actually, I am worried and disappointed that you didn’t have the option to change the user name at this once only chance. I wanted to change my user name from Mannno to McoreD as part of this one time deal but nope :(

• nosivadnomis  |  Nov 19 2009 at 6:18 am

  I understand your perspective, but please don’t assume the only things that changed in yesterdays deployment were just the user facing things I listed in my post. For us to innovate and create new features there are many background changes that need to be made to allow us to support these features as we move forward. Sometimes we need a occasional ‘meh’ release from a user perspective to allow to focus on background functionality and lay the groundwork for those new features.

  More new ‘Delicious-centric’ functionality will be coming soon, I promise.

• Neil  |  Nov 19 2009 at 12:56 pm

  Why bother “working hard to increase the integration and start offering more Yahoo! features”? What percentage of delicious users also have/had a Yahoo account? Flickr got dirtied by Yahoo’s ugly presence and delicious is going the same way.

• angryface  |  Nov 20 2009 at 8:31 am

  This is sooooo frustrating. That’s great that Yahoo users can connect now, but it’s not right to force people into creating an email account just to use Delicious. I already have a few accounts with Delicious that I love and we were looking at implementing this as tool across our entire organization. Only problem is now you have to create a crappy email account and enter in a bunch of personal info just to sign up!

  If you don’t have Yahoo, this is a huge turn off and is crippling to many of the great uses for Delicious.

  EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING!!! Just let the non-Yahoo folks enjoy it without destroying another great resource…..please?

• Britta Gustafson  |  Nov 20 2009 at 4:42 pm

  Thank you all for commenting. (I’ve said this many times before, but we really do appreciate all suggestions and complaints about Delicious.) Adding to what my fellow team member nosivadnomis (also known as Simon) said above, integrating with Yahoo! ID opens up a lot of interesting and useful opportunities for Delicious in the future. We’ve been part of Yahoo! since 2005, so this integration has actually been part of our plan for a long time.

  We know that this change is frustrating for some people, and we don’t like making Delicious frustrating. There are several tradeoffs here, including that many, many people around the world already have Yahoo! accounts, so integration with Yahoo! ID makes Delicious easier and more convenient for them. We also know that some people prefer not to get Yahoo! accounts at all, but we hope that the usefulness of Delicious is worth it for many people.

• anonymous  |  Nov 21 2009 at 12:09 am

  @Britta Gustafson
  Why does Yahoo! need to know my full name, full birthday, postal address and so on? If you want to sign up for Google’s services, at least they don’t demand such details.

  It’s a shame that the clueless idiot company Yahoo! acquired del.iciou.us.

• Baby  |  Nov 21 2009 at 6:13 pm

  Is dellicious and yahoo one company?

• SEO Seattle  |  Nov 22 2009 at 6:26 am

  Yahoo! account support is now another one of the MANY reasons I LOVE Delicious!

• Britta Gustafson  |  Nov 23 2009 at 12:22 am

  anonymous: It sounds like this would be a better question for general Yahoo! support. I can help with questions about Delicious in particular.

  Baby: Yes, Delicious is part of Yahoo!.

• Mona  |  Nov 23 2009 at 3:13 am

  Its great you are making updates on the Delicious to improve the performance and user experience. The integration reduces time used in managing ones updates.

• Stephen Judge  |  Nov 24 2009 at 9:43 am

  I’m really not all that interested in Yahoo! login to be honest, for starters I don’t trust Yahoo! so much after they deleted my Yahoo! account a few years ago just for linking my old outdated Yahoo! Geocities website to my new website, apparently this was against their TOS. So I try and keep as much disconnected from Yahoo! logins as possible.

  Another reason I don’t like Yahoo! login is the password manager in Firefox cannot seem to recognise the user name and password fields and thus cannot save my Yahoo! logins to login quickly, incidentally it cannot recognise Delicious.com’s native login either. Although this is probably a problem for Firefox not Delicious.com

  What I really want to see, I mean REALLY WANT TO SEE, is for both Yahoo! and Delicious to support OpenID login. This is the way forward. One identity across multiple websites that it vendor independent, has strong authentication and security. No more forgetting passwords for every website you have to sign up for these days, no more ridiculous “Forgotten Password” procedures, such as a “Secret Question and Answer” which are easily overcome with social engineering. I mean, Yahoo! is already and OpenID provider, why don’t they actually start accepting it at login for *sake. Look at the demand for it already:

  http://demand.openid.net/site/secure.delicious.com 46 people
  http://demand.openid.net/site/del.icio.us 446 people
  http://demand.openid.net/site/delicious.com 119 people

  The way foreword on the web is to give users back the ownership and control of their data, not walled gardens. Be a good web citizen, check out DataPortability.org and implement OpenID, Mircroformats, XFN etc.

• Abdullah  |  Dec 2 2009 at 6:14 am

  Is it possible to open a delicious account without having to create a Yahoo account?

• Bart  |  Dec 2 2009 at 7:04 am

  Thanks Stephen Judge

  I tried to make the yahoo team aware of this as well when they started the integration. If Yahoo! indeed want to be more about You they should let us be ourselves, and not yet again mandate some site specific login.

  Practice what you preach … you either support openID or not.
  Don’t just add pages that explain why Yahoo! embraces open ID… no Just do it!

• Shasme  |  Dec 5 2009 at 3:54 pm

  I Love this idea, because it saves me a tremendous amount of time as I continue my networking efforts. WAY TO GO Yahooooooooo!

• anonymous  |  Dec 9 2009 at 12:06 pm

  Incredibly disappointing…I was excited to try this out… till I found out that I’d be required to create ANOTHER needless email account. The logic behind that??

• Edisto Cal Griffin  |  Dec 9 2009 at 5:04 pm

  thanks for another great post….keep up the great work!

• Takriz  |  Dec 12 2009 at 4:21 pm

  we do not want yahoo and its silly feature. i understand they bought you but please leave the service as it is.

• Abe  |  Dec 15 2009 at 4:26 am

  This is really bad :( . I like delicious but yahoo sucks. This makes the service worse for existing users and terrible for new users who dont want a yahoo email.

  I want to use delicious not yahoo.

  And now I dont have a choice.

  not cool guys not cool.

• Bruce Weirdan  |  Dec 15 2009 at 10:40 am

  @Britta: can you comment why delicious team have chosen to support Y! login *instead* of OpenID? You seem to evade answering this question for two blog posts already.

• Takriz  |  Dec 16 2009 at 2:09 am

  OpenId is by far superior, Yahoo is a pain, especially from Tunisia where internet is censored. Please add an option to connect through openID or direcly like the older accounts. We need delicious for our freedom of speech militant group to work!

• Yahoo! ruined Delicious  |  Dec 20 2009 at 2:51 am

  Screw Yahoo, I found an alternative that’s even better than Delicious: http://www.diigo.com/
  Diigo also has extensions availible for both Firefox and Chrome, so no need to use bookmarklets.

• Sunny  |  Dec 20 2009 at 8:11 pm

  I have been using Delicious for a long time and loved it.

  However, I find it disturbing that Yahoo is trying to tied down the users but insisting on Yahoo Id.

  I understand that it make sense for Yahoo integration especially for those that have a yahoo account.

  However, it quite a turn off for those who do not have a yahoo account and now being force to have one in order to use delicious.

  My suggestion is that why not let the user decide and leave the option for the user to use their existing email (non Yahoo users) and Yahoo id (Yahoo users).

  If the features of yahoo is created, I am sure that word would get around and people will turn pay attention.

• David  |  Dec 21 2009 at 11:56 am

  I would second many of these complaints. Consider that organizations use delicious and that forcing people to use a yahoo id for this is very problematic. I am a pre-existing yahoo user, and being forced to log in and out of different accounts when I want to switch between personal/work uses is very problematic! I’m reconsidering using delicious for our organization.

• 125 Motorcycles  |  Dec 28 2009 at 12:05 pm

  well i think that Delicious is a good bookmarking site and yahoo is good yo.

  Good post

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• Marikxon Manurung  |  Jan 1 2010 at 6:16 am

  Well, actually I don’t like the idea. It’s confusing me…seriously. What is Delicious n Yahoo! purpose? Till now I don’t see the profit for users. That’s my opinion. But hey, I don’t care…Delicious still No. 1 on internet bookmarks.

  Piss and Love
  Marikxon Manurung

• MIKE DOMINGUEZ  |  Jan 1 2010 at 10:53 am

  We Love You……………………………………………………………..

• sevgi  |  Jan 3 2010 at 7:50 am

  Çok Tenk tü

• Jenny Craig  |  Jan 5 2010 at 2:28 pm

  Sound great, is easier to manage one account then two.

• DEETER MACGYVER  |  Jan 8 2010 at 1:33 am

  happy new year every one !!!

• gosbm  |  Jan 9 2010 at 12:08 am

  happy new year!!!!

• readwiki  |  Jan 10 2010 at 1:52 pm

  Delcious is always powerful with humanized design， love del.icio.us

• auto dvd gps  |  Jan 10 2010 at 11:51 pm

  Happy new year.

• asidiq  |  Jan 11 2010 at 5:02 am

  easy to join.. :D

• Mandy  |  Jan 11 2010 at 8:10 pm

  This policy is stupid. I was about to sign up but since I can’t create a delicous account without creating a yahoo account I won’t be using delicious. I suspect many people will agree with me - don’t expect the numbers using your site to increase any time soon! I’m sure yahoo users are already well aware of delicious and those who wanted to use it already would have.

• redbonecutey  |  Jan 13 2010 at 7:42 am

  Delicious soundz like my kind of thang….. I cant wait to experience this!!!!!!!!!

• redbonecutey  |  Jan 13 2010 at 7:45 am

  And fo the onez dat dnt like this new delicious website>……..Dont Get On IT Stupid… Itz not for you itz fo da people who wantz to be Delicious……HATERZ!!!!!!!!

• baliplus  |  Jan 13 2010 at 10:45 pm

  thanks for the updates!
  I’ve just realized that delicious is now owned by Yahoo!
  and the name had changed from del.icio.us to delicious.com

  regards from Bali.

• liming  |  Jan 14 2010 at 3:58 am

  I only joined delicious recently, I thought it was always part of google, didn’t realised it is a new thing

• Ryu Kent  |  Jan 18 2010 at 1:02 am

  Please could you create an official plug in for the Chrome browser. There are many unofficial ones but none of them are as good as the firefox plugin. Would make using Delicious so much easier.

• car gps  |  Jan 19 2010 at 12:24 am

  Very good. Just like the name. Delicious!

• Politics  |  Jan 22 2010 at 1:58 am

  For us to innovate and create new features there are many background changes that need to be made to allow us to support these features as we move forward.

• nob  |  Jan 24 2010 at 1:46 am

  haha

• Hilding  |  Jan 24 2010 at 10:57 am

  Hi, I use Yahoo so Thanks for this updates.

• student aid  |  Jan 25 2010 at 2:22 am

  Firefox cannot seem to recognise the user name and password fields and thus cannot save my Yahoo! logins to login quickly, incidentally it cannot recognise Delicious.com’s native login either.

• Richie  |  Jan 25 2010 at 4:49 pm

  Switching from a delicious login to a Yahoo login is the worst social bookmarking mistake I could possibly have made. It has made it effectively impossible for me to link my delicious account to any other service. For example, none of the better Google Chrome extensions works with a Yahoo login. Further, I can’t automatically add my Diigo bookmarks to delicious. Worst of all, I can no longer use any of the delicious apps for BlackBerry!

  Delicious appears to be pointing the finger at developers, blaming them for not taking advantage of the API. However, it seems like developers would be all over updating their apps for a service as popular as delicious if it were easy for them to do so. That there have been virtually no such updates suggests that maybe it isn’t so easy after all.

  Is anyone from delicious or Yahoo ever going to address this in a meaningful way?

• Education Instructional Technology Support Specialist  |  Jan 26 2010 at 12:59 pm

  This is a poor move for those of us in education who are still just fighting to get our states/districts to UNFILTER so many sites; external email being a big one (yahoo mail, gmail, hotmail etc). How am I, as an instructional technology support person, going to be able to encourage students/staff to use these technologies when they are now required to create a Yahoo account which is blocked by our state filter.

  This does not help the cause for those of us in technology trying to engourage the use of technology for teaching ’21st Century Skills.’

• Politics  |  Jan 30 2010 at 1:49 am

  Very good thinking for you Current update is useful for fast life good article very nice

• Daniel  |  Jan 31 2010 at 9:48 am

  Sucks for people who don’t want to have several email accounts and I’m - pretty sure - I’m not alone when I say I won’t be using delicious because of this. =\

• Beo  |  Feb 4 2010 at 12:57 am

  This is a great feature. I will use it easy.

• Lars  |  Feb 4 2010 at 3:55 am

  I also think, wwitching from a bookmark site to an other bookmark site is not good. To easy to produce a large amount of tags and bookmarks with same content.

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 7:58 pm

  I hate Yahoo!! I can never get on Delicious without going through Yapoo. Why doesn’t Delicious branch off to themselves? Get away from Yapoo. Everytime I sign in I get kicked back out. I hate Yapoo!!!!!!!!! Delicious does not need them. I am not going to recommend Delicious unless Yahoo gets their act together. Too many scrunched up codes. THEY REALLY SUCK!!!!! TOO DIFFICULT TO SIGN ON. I hope delicious.com gets rid of yahppooooo. They stink!!! Delicious is a great site, but not Yapoo!
  It takes over an hour to set up an account. If you dont use it within a week or two they cut you off. We should not have to go through Yapoo to get to Delicious.com!!

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:06 pm

  You go! Tech Person! Good point!!! I will also encourage our establishment not to use Delicious unless we can set up separate accounts without Yahoo!! They are the worst!!! Other emails, such as hotmail and peoplepc. do not have even close to half the hassles that yahoo has. You are supposed to be able to use the same password and username, right? Wrong! it never works, I have to go out, back into Yahoo, then back into Delicious! I hate this! Waste of valuable time!!! might work for people who dont work and have nothing but time to sit on the computer all day long. Who is in charge of delicious anyway?

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:09 pm

  Richie, I agree with you wholeheartedly!!!!! Delicious needs to break the relationship with Yahoo if they can’t link with them without problems. Social bookmarking is not worth using if it is not convenient or quick. I can copy/paste into the new _____ Database faster than I can log onto Yahoo! (Can’t say the name)

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:16 pm

  I agree with Angryface!! If we all stop using Delicious maybe they will think about changing. You are right. Let Yahoo users have a special link from their email and vice versa. Any new accounts that are NON-YAHOO should be able to sign up freely without being forced to use Yahoo! Can you believe those codes? They are the only company in the world that put their letters and numbers so close together that you can’t read them. What is the purpose of having a code, If you can’t read it, why does it say: Copy what you see???? Don’t you have to see to read??????? HELLO YAHOO!!!!! Do the other companies lose business or security by allowing their clients to READ the code? What a joke!!!

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:20 pm

  Britta, You can open up a world of technology opportunities without forcing new users to go through Yahoo! Add Hotmail, All university Black board users, People PC, MSN , to your network. Talk about expansion and becoming popular? That would really help the Delicious.com site.

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:24 pm

  Britta,
  No it is not worth it. You may have millions of users of Yahoo, but you also have Billions of non-users. Would you prefer everyone or 1/2? Those who have Yahoo would utilize your site because it is a GOOD SITE, however, I am not going to recommend my class (students) use it until Delicious.com re-works it to include non-Yahoo users! If you just want to cater to one group….. What can we say?

• diane  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:32 pm

  To Abdullah: No the only way is through Yahoo. If you haven’t done it yet, My advice, don’t unless you have hours to spend setting up the account and getting frustrated because you can’t get into Delicious, thus the reason for joining, right?

  To Stephen Judge: I agree with you. There is a spot that says: “Make up your own question”. What happens? It won’t clear for you to insert your own question! Talk about duh!! And why does it want to save your password for two weeks? (Yahoo) Not because you might forget it, but to get access to your password to pass it on to hackers.!

• debbie  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:44 pm

  My company will not be using this site! I heard it was great, saw if used by a colleague but when all the employess had a problem? Forget it! Delicious, if you are listening, please work out another deal! Are there any other Bookmarking sites out there? Send them my way and we’ll use them! Have a great weekend, hope your company survives. I read the other comments. Wow! Not good management if you have this many complaints! !

• Steven  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:47 pm

  I am a teacher and this is a great site to utilize in the school system. Too bad I can’t use it until Delicious/Yahoo no longer imposes the mandatory sign up. Students have enough to worry about than to have to waste time getting a new email account!.

• Gale  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:49 pm

  Long Story short, Not using a site that demand my signing up for Yahoo!! Sorry! Email me when you change the protocol. Gale

• Donna  |  Feb 5 2010 at 8:51 pm

  Our teacher asked us to sign up for Delicious. What’s with the sign up for Yahoo? I am not putting my personal information out there. My suggestion, get rid of Yahoo and become a stand alone company!! Have a great weekend!

• Bob  |  Feb 6 2010 at 5:19 pm

  Very nice article. It’s helpful for me. I will use it easy.
  .

• chinese visa  |  Feb 8 2010 at 6:28 pm

  I use yahoo not too much.

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