Wednesday·11·February·2009
OMG, they killed del.icio.us! You bastards! //at 01:15 //by abe
Yeah, it happened already a while ago, but I still get angry about it, so I need to rant about it in my blog:
Yahoo!, the owner of del.icio.us, recently renamed the cool old del.icio.us to the no more cool and two bytes longer delicious.com. WTF? Part of del.icio.us’ popularity was its cool host name, why drop that? And even if a few dumbasses don’t understand the wordplay on the perfect host name, they could have offered delicious.com as a second domain name which works in parallel.
But no, they dropped the good old del.icio.us in a way so that all old bookmarklets, bookmarks, plugins, etc. don’t work right anymore and I need to login each time I want to save a bookmark on all browsers where I once was logged in on the old site even if I’m already logged in at the new site in the same browser session. delicious.com sucks.
And no, I don’t let count Gabor’s argument that people have difficulties with domains like
del.icio.us
, since many sites are well known or can be
easily remembered because of their creative host or domain
name: del.icio.us, script.aculo.us, wua.la, identi.ca, certifi.ca, laconi.ca, cr.yp.to, pix.ie, buenz.li (Swiss German), go.to, bit.ly, chickensh.it, gibts.net (German), doma.in, moinmo.in, etc.
No wonder, Montenegro sells many
second level domains under their top level domain .me as “premium
domains”.
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