Off the prompt "cuddles."

None of this should be breaking news, unless you were living under a rock yesterday:

Delicious rolled out its new look, which killed a lot of functionality, including (horrors) any tag containing the / symbol. Also networks, subscriptions, the ability to see more than ten links at a time, the ability to see what other people tagged a link, and so on.

But really, the / symbol. Cue fandom shitfit.

About 23 hours ago: Pinboard: Just a gentle reminder to fanfic people - / tag works just fine on Pinboard :-)

Bless that guy's heart. He's actually courting us.

Anyway, right now I see about three alternatives to delicious:

1. The AO3 bookmarking tool. However, it is still under development and not yet fully fledged. Things I want out of the AO3 bookmarking tool that are still not extant: the ability to import thousands of bookmarks from another service automagically rather than manually *G* and--okay, this is unfair, I only expect this of AO3 because damn it, it should be easy ON AO3--for bookmarks for AO3 stories to include word count as well as author tags etc.

2. Diigo. Free diigo may be but it is not for fandom. They have decided their primary market is K-12 students and educators and they therefore autoprivate any sex-related bookmarks. This feature is not opt-outable. There is no "yes I am over 18" link (because if you give that to kids they will lie, duh). There is simply no way to share x-rated fic on the site. Also apparently their algorithm is a bit dodgy and will attack things that aren't porn either.

3. Pinboard. It is a pay service (currently around $10 sign-up fee, price rising with number of users--and I can see the logic to that, it keeps site growth manageable and makes sure growth can be paid for, and frankly, the more people are using it the more valuable the service is). I know that the fact that it is a pay service will probably be a stumbling block for a lot of fandom. But: the guy is courting us. He knows we exist and is welcoming us and has asked for suggestions of features fandom wants, needs and desires--he suggested a gdoc, which is here if you want to add to it, and is actively participating by answering questions and adding clarifications in the doc itself. I don't even know how to--like, okay, in the past, fandom has mostly dealt with two kinds of outsiders--ones who don't know we exist or prefer to pretend we don't exist; and ones who seek to profit off of us without understanding us. Pinboard Guy (and I will always think of him as Pinboard Guy with the description from the Economist linked on the site's front page: "One dude in his underpants somewhere who has five windows open to terminal servers") doesn't seem to be either--he knows we exist, he wants us to use his service, and he's asking us how we want to use his service and listening to our responses.

So this may have turned into a advertisement for Pinboard. Um. This is an unpaid testimonial (unless you count funny tweets as payment, did I mention Pinboard is funny and answers tweets?).

A quick and dirty how to:

Go here to sign up: http://pinboard.in/ Price still at $9.43 for now. Site takes paypal and amazon payments.

To get your bookmarks out of delicious, go here: https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all?results=X replacing X with the number of bookmarks you should have (discovered it cuts off at 1000 if you don't specify). Save that xml file to your computer.

In your shiny new pinboard account, go to http://pinboard.in/settings/import and upload the delicious xml file.

Come find me! http://pinboard.in/u:jmtorres (I wonder if dreamwidth user tag works? ...looks like no. I should go suggest that)

I just tossed my primary White Collar thoughts up on twitter addressed to jeffeastin.

Lalala.