deliciously new

Congrats to the delicious team on the launch of the new delicious.com. As an active user, I've been looking forward to the refresh for a little while now, and I'm happy to have it live! Here are a few of the things I like...

• Date grouping! It's a simple thing, but it really makes it visually clear how much linking activity I've been doing lately.

• Top ten tags! I'm pretty sure I could have done that before with the controls that were there, but the new look of that right-hand module is clean, simple and straightforward.

• Tag intersection UI! While the visual look implies more of a category > subcategory model instead of a pure tag intersection model, the way they've implemented it will make me much more likely to go to my archives to find things like "small+software."

• Long notes! Yeah, I like them too.

• The launch video! Definitely worth watching, especially if you're one of those people (like me) who likes words moving around on a screen.

And since it wouldn't be fair and balanced without one thing I'm not a fan of, I'll share this:

• I'm not a fan of the new little "person" that's there. I've always loved the simple delicious identity of the blue, black and white favicon; I'm not sure that the bookmark needed to be anthropomorphized.

To date I've shared 1,254 bookmarks on delicious. Here's to the next 1,254!

Comments

[jonathan peterson]

1,254?

and I thought you did the internets for a living - I've got 2443 :-)

sadly, at least half were a one time bulk load from the desktop bookmark tool I used to use and are a totally uncategorized mess.

FWIW - I use FURL because it captures and archives the content of pages bookmarked. Ton's of my bookmarks from the early dotcom era are dead, dead, dead.

[Michael Sippey]

yeah, i've never used a bulk tool and i've never used the firefox extensions that sync bookmarks... i use delicious much more in the "sharing" mode than the "storage" mode, and take a much more "if it disappears, then it was meant to disappear" attitude about content i'm pointing to.

[Axcel]

I spend way too much time online and I didn't even know this update was coming. I like the layout. Still getting used to the new icon but overall this simple update looks great.