YAY! The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week.
The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks. They’re also promising that it will be “faster, easier to learn,” and “hopefully more desirable.”
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old backend was getting creaky under the load of five million users.
Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another public user’s bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.
Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn.
Users will need to log into their accounts and get a new browser cookie. Honestly, I rarely visit Delicious any more, the Firefox plugin is so good that actually visiting the site isn’t necessary. So all I’m really hoping for here is a stable service. If there are glitches, I hope they fix them quickly.
As I said in our previous posts, it’s too bad Delicious 2.0 couldn’t launch before founder Joshua Schachter left the company in frustration. I called Schachter to ask him what he has to say about the new launch. His response – “Good luck. I hope it goes well.”
It HAS frozen over!
Bravo…better late than never I suppose!
And why did they have to switch over to delicious.com? I much preferred del.icio.us
Bleh, the .com version is nicer, easier to remember, and doesn’t suffer the “look how cool we are” “too clever by half” syndrome.
Trying to get back regular visitors, the same kind that can’t remember the del.icio.us
I think that it should be a user preference…My preference would be del.icio.us
I’ve been using http://delicious.com for the past two years, it just redirects you. It’s not like this is any kind of improvement.
Cool news. Looking forward to see how this long awaited site is.
I never thought I’d read a TC post that started with “YAY!”
sometimes I like to mix things up a little.
Never a bad thing.
shouldn’t that have been “YUM!” I know, I know, LAME but someone was going to have to say it eventually
Hmmm… not seeing it yet
The coming soon screen is still showing on delicious.com
still the old one
Me neither :S
I’ve logged out and in again, but nothing..
It should be available at http://delicious.com
Hmmmm. No site.
Diigo still wins with full-text search, not just tags and titles.
“We’re in the middle of launching the new Delicious!
Please check back soon…”
Middle of launching…I guess some of the intertubes didn’t connect the way they should have. Too bad Ted Stevens is busy today.
Just logged out and back in – still the old delicious.
Hi everyone — The launch in in progress right now and you should start seeing the new site as DNS updates propagate…
I see it just fine.
It’s BEAUTIFUL.
I just had a nerdgasm.
Lets See HOw delicious it is NOW
I’m seeing it now but can’t log in due to a forbidden error.
The anticipation is killing me.
I logged out, but when I try to login I get a URL forbidden error. Good thing I didn’t delete the copies of my bookmarks in firefox.
Oh gee willickers! What would I ever do without my bookmarks!
just tried to create an account and it leads to forbidden page on yahoo servers…
https://secure.delicious.com/register
Click on the “Sign in” link, forbidden…
Seeing it, but unable to log in or save any bookmarks using the FireFox plugin …. patience
Check that. It’s up and running for me now. Initial reaction: looks MUCH betterh.
…and I’m assuming the other news is that at some point Yahoo! bought the delicious.com domain from whoever had it last to rerelease de.icio.us on more familiar .com terroir?
I never checked what delicious.com was before but what’s the story behind that purchase? Must have been worth something hefty (npi) if it was a foody site.
The search results page is finally usable. I can read the number of people who have saved a page!!!
Seems broken to me:
Sorry, Forbidden.
You don’t have permission to access this URL on this server.
On several pages, including login.
Wait till you see FAV.ORIT.ES…
Delicious opinions and tech news hear… http://www.gothamtechminute.blogspot.com
got it..
I like more the plain old version
I love all the sponsored results showing next to the results now
Looks like some good stuff on its way
Yahoo is doing something to mark its impact in a big way by overhauling its UIs.
I still can’t use my Yahoo! ID to login…I’m still gonna pass.