After the delicious fiasco, I am not in a mood to try any such service. Instead, I'm keeping my bookmarks to my Firefox with all the tags. So what if the Firefox bookmarks manager's UI is not any advance, at least I don't have to worry about moving anywhere when the service shuts down or goes freemium. The only disadvantage is that I can't use my bookmarks if I'm on library's computer or something.
Use Newsblur and Pinboard, the only two real competitors out there whenever someone comes up looking for replacement for GR or Delicious....as per HN of course!
Open Source gets me excited, but then I compare the updates in NewsBlur and GReader and I see that my feeds are arriving earlier in GReader than NewsBlur (just because I'm not a paying customer?), I loose hope.
Cross-browser bookmarks compatibility is the one reason I'm having hard time giving up on Firefox, otherwise, Chrome is certainly faster and better overall. The other issue is that bookmarks are not easily portable on cloud (don't talk to me about delicious or xmarks - I prefer to keep my bookmarks to myself). What if I use Chrome most of the time at home but can't if I'm using library or work computer? There are issues which are still unresolved in the browser world.
A live and public website in use for a long time by so many people, goes back to beta and breaks everything. In an offline world, a service like that would possibly call for lawsuits all over.
There is no freaking lesson here, at least not so soon. Because they refuse to revert back, they possibly don't even know how to revert back. It's a major screw up in the history of Internet. Delicious has been doomed for long but people still use it, because browser bookmarking just sucks.
This is not a link-bait, I am genuinely wondering. The link takes you to a simplified summary of costs at my blog. I am curious what people think in general about this as this was not the case with Wordpress.com just a few years ago. The thought came to mind as I notice Tumblr's success and the failing of other blogging platforms (let's also not forget the merging of Microsoft's blogging space with Wordpress not too long ago).
The ultimate lesson has always been that we can never put all of our eggs in one basket. But lately, the lesson has evolved to suggest that even if you put some of the eggs in a basket, you are actually gambling.in this time of social-Internet. I don't mind gambling my time and efforts with new and/or struggling products, but the risk is when you gamble your friends, connections and audience. It just becomes ugly when the platform plays around and literally pulls the rug under your feet. But anyway, that's a reality of changing social-Internet landscape.
OK, nice to know this through tech-media. Not that I was using this on daily basis but I thought as a registered user, I should have known first via email.
What about security, privacy etc? Who else sees the messages going back and forth and who retains the archive?