Delicious 2.0: Now easier to type!
cross-posted from bub.blicio.us
Yahoo! has launched the redesigned, speedier delicious, the original
(and probably still the best) social bookmarking site. For me, perhaps
the best thing to come out of this re-launch is the new URL: delicious.com. I can’t even explain how often I got the old del.icio.us wrong. (The old URL, and your old login, still work.)
Easy typing aside, there are definitely some other upgrades to the site:
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that
makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up
with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and
reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old backend was getting
creaky under the load of five million users.Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make
it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return
results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter,
and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another public
user’s bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take
advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to
mention the Delicious community at large.Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve
usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable
detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our
goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one,
so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion.
At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it
easier to learn.
When you visit the new Delicious, you’ll need to log in again to reset your cookie.
Cheers!
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