Okay, so.

[wallwalker]

More coherent people than I have already spoken about the delicious changes. Here's a linkspam that summarizes a lot of things.

I had wanted an account some time ago to keep track of links, and after sidequest was created I wanted to make an account to keep track of prompts. Not now, though. I have no idea who their target demographic is at this point - and frankly, I'd like to know who they're hoping to attract with their new service! - but I am very obviously not in it.

Has anyone here used Pinboard for any length of time? I would like to know, since each account requires a small fee to sign up, how easy it is to separate links into different topics that can be browsed separately. I don't want to sign up and add links that are of personal interest to me if I have to turn around and buy a new account just to be able to link sidequest prompts separately. I would have to choose one or the other. Probably fannish things, because honestly? I don't really share links to random things that often, and I could probably just create a post here for that purpose and keep it updated on its irregular basis, and be fine with it. (And yes, I know it's just under ten dollars, but frankly, that's a lot of money right now. Things will be better at the beginning of October! I just need to be careful for now.)

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[stealth_noodle]

The suggestion box is actually a Google Doc of awesome. I'm not sure if someone's already suggested something similar in there, since I was busy being blown away by how much is going on.

[wallwalker]

I've had a few looks at it!

And I suggested subaccounts, which do not seem to be going over well. I want to edit and say that what I really want, in my little black heart, is to be able to share, say, my bookmarked nutrition articles with a friend from high school or whatever, without said friend finding out that I like fic about people who bang aliens, and if there's another way to do that, I'm all for it! But I can't right now, because every time I try to load the article it locks up.

And now it's looking like I'm going to have to reboot. Why does GDocs always screw up whatever computer I'm using to access it? >_>

[stealth_noodle]

I can't even view the doc on my netbook anymore without crashing Chrome, so I have to make it to the end. I wonder if the Pinboard developer is totally overwhelmed yet. :P

A subaccount-like feature would be pretty neat, because sometimes I get tired of maintaining separate accounts (or making everything private) to keep my tastes in porn from intersecting with my RL acquaintances.

[wallwalker]

Tiered security (ability to mark links as network-only) seems to be the closest we're getting, which... is reasonable, I suppose. Subaccounts do have a fairly high potential for abuse. Still a little disappointing, though.

I went ahead and signed up - what's your username? (I'm still trying to figure out who the mystery person following me is - when I click on the link to show the name, it says it's "No one." Very odd.)

[stealth_noodle]

Your mystery person remains a mystery, alas; all my bookmarks somehow imported as private (I am 98% certain this is Delicious's fault), so I've been putting off adding anyone until I've sorted out making the right links public again. (I can PM you once I do; it's under one of the usernames I also use for RL stuff, so I try to avoid linking it to my fannish ID anywhere that Google might be peeking.)