Poor Delicious. They were a victim of web 2.0. Much like Digg.
Delicious vs Pinboard was basically Digg vs Reddit.
The one who focused on the basic core usecase over flashy features and modern/trendy design won.
Delicious vs Pinboard was basically Digg vs Reddit.
The one who focused on the basic core usecase over flashy features and modern/trendy design won.
Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious.
It got a HUGE boost when the announcement of Delicious' sunsetting came out.
https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/
My favourite line comes from the tweet storm (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-...):
> "there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money"
I used both products from the early days of each and this is entirely false. Whether or not Delicious continued down the social bookmarking path in it's original incarnation doesn't mean they weren't competing.
I only completely switched from Delicious after their awful 'redesign' and still having an outstanding need for a cloud-based bookmarking service when Pinboard came around. Same with Digg/Reddit. I used both but ditched Digg when they did the misguided v3 relaunch, like everyone else.
[by whom ?] as they say over in en.wikipedia ...
Don't know the numbers, but Reddit always sported a more "in" crowd, who looked down on the Digg unwashed.
slashdot, but with a better comment engine
Even so that wasn't my core point here. The analogies between the two are still plentiful.
Digg didn't die because of Reddit's 'competition' either. Digg shot themselves in the foot while Reddit largely did nothing and won because of it.
Both Digg/Delicious made big mistakes by doing their social network era redesigns, while Pinboard and Reddit were built around simple designs and staying true to a core concept. That's the point.
Wouldn't call Delicious flashy or modern. The design is almost as brutalist as Pinboard. I don't like either.
The original Delicious interface was simple and easy to use. Not quite as minimalist as Pinboard, but nowhere near the crap they released later.
I'm sure from your POV Reddit has always been an entirely different beast, but (and at the risk of teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs) as an early user of both I saw them as have a lot of similarity, both forging a similar and exciting new future of people collectively making the web more discoverable.
I actually tried to build a product which attempted to combine the best of both: a tool for communities to organize links. I still think there is room for something like that, but countless people have tried and none have taken off, so it seem it is way harder to get something like that to catch on than it seemed in those heady days of web 2.0.
Neither Reddit nor Digg offered actual bookmarking, so if you thought they were similar to Delicious you didn't really understand the product.