Migrating from delicious.com to WordPress

This post has moved to eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2015/01-05-migrating-from-delicious-com-to-wordpress.

I have been a loyal user of del.icio.us since 2006. I have written on this in my post Saving URLs in del.icio.us Still Troublesome. But now enough is enough. Here is a list of annoyances:

1. You can neither export nor import your data anymore.
2. The service is generally slow, i.e., it takes a lot of time to just load the site in your browser.
3. The service is sometimes not available.
4. You cannot change URLs without deleting the entire post.
5. The company behind the service does not answer any inquires.
6. The site is blocked by a number of company firewalls because it is marked as “social”.

Saving URLs in del.icio.us Still Troublesome

This post has moved to eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2013/08-31-saving-urls-in-del-icio-us-still-troublesome.

I have been using del.icio.us since at least the year 2005. During that time del.icio.us was sold to Yahoo, which didn’t do very much with this bookmarking service. It simply worked. In 2011 the service was acquired by a company named AVOS, see Wikipedia for the story. Since that time the user interface was changed, using more JavaScript/AJAX, many previously working functionality was broken, service was down repeatedly, many login-problems, slow response times, server errors (HTTP/503), export not working, deleting or modifying URLs not possible, etc.

I have been searching for a good alternative, but haven’t found one which really satisfied me, despite all the hassle with AVOS.

I am now considering to enter, or at least regularly backing up my URL’s directly here in WordPress, see collected-links. I now regularly export my bookmarks to file, so to not lose any data. This export file is then run through a Perl script named delicious. This output is then manually put to collected-links.

See my post Migrating from delicious.com to WordPress.

Addendum, 27-Dec-2014: Exporting bookmarks via Export Bookmarks does not work, you get the message “502 Bad Gateway”. As stated in their blog at May-8, 2014, Delicious is now owned by a company named “Science”. It looks like they want to scare off any users.

Added 22-Apr-2017: Company “Science” apparently has lost interest in del.icio.us, it is now owned by a company called DomainerSuite.