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Are you familiar with web directories (DMOZ [1] and others [2])? This looks like one, and perhaps others can be used to borrow ideas (hierarchical structure, for instrance) for future development.

[1] https://www.dmoz-odp.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories

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The DMOZ has been defunct for years, but many of its original editors went on to build Curlie

https://www.curlie.org/

Thanks for the links. I was not familiar with these and yes hierarchical structure could be useful. We're planning to add public categories into the list, maybe we can use the categories structure from DMOZ. The categories are neatly organized there.

Relatedly, looks like someone is trying once again to resurrect del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/

I really wish all that data to come back online. Now I wonder how much of this web it was pointing to already decayed...

Also... Del.icio.us was the one and only app that got tagging 100% right.

It didn't get the tagging right at all. On my bookmarks I somehow ended up with hundreds of tags in total, making tags effectively useless. I made very rough tool to just bulk delete delicious tags. Tags were useful but a pain to manage

What do you think ideal tagging should be like in a websites similar to del.icio.us?

There should be some fuzziness probably. My tags were in hundreds because I imported bookmarks. Many tags were essentially same with an 's' I remember.

I have never used Del.icio.us. I've tried to access it through web-archive but most of the snapshot are redirecting to 301 response error. How does the tagging work in del.icio.us ?

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