[idlewords]

I talked at length with Tony Aly, who is the new Delicious owner. He is not incompetent and I believe he is making a good-faith effort to get the site back to life. But it's a difficult migration to make. The site was hemmorhaging money on AWS, which made it imperative to try to move it to dedicated hosting. The code base and data store has all kinds of issues stemming from the fact that it's been rewritten so many times, and designed to work at a much larger scale than it needs to right now.

I've told Tony several times I'm eager to discuss buying the site once it finally finishes crushing what remains of his spirit, so it can begin crushing the remains of mine.

With regard to the domain name, Science Inc. explicitly declined to sell delicious.com along with the site, so they could perform some kind of SEO asshattery with that domain in the future.

[Jerry2]

Thank you for this post! I find it bewildering that I got to know the truth from you and not from Delicious management. Why they couldn't keep everyone in the loop is beyond me. A single tweet along the lines "we're working on it, stay tuned" would have gone a long way. Instead we got radio silence. I lost a lot of my research time when I couldn't get to my links and notes. I'm sure others experienced the same anguish.

[morgante]

Thanks for posting the background info.

As a loyal user of Delicious, I hope Tony is able to turn it around. It's really depressing to see thousands of my bookmarks become unusable. The site doesn't even support https.

Respectfully, I hope you don't buy it though. I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics.

[SonicSoul]

I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics

care to provide a reference? Missed this.

[tedunangst]

Pin board on Twitter is far from politically neutral.

[VRtual]

Similar to the band Cake. Nobody cares what they have to say about politics; we just follow them for one purpose.

[joshmn]

> so they could perform some kind of SEO asshattery with that domain in the future.

Sounds about right.