Comments on: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

By: Bra Kreditkort

Bra Kreditkort — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:59:27 +0000

This is truly saddening.We’re still attached to Yahoo because of Delicious and some other cool stuff. Thanks for the update, need to export bookmarks ASAP.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:25:11 +0000

Pathetic is right. It’s no wonder the company is in such bad shape. This isn’t going to help them at all, though.

“Hey everybody, let’s just throw away all of our assets. If we can’t figure out what to do with them, nobody else can have them!”

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:22:49 +0000

No joke, sadly. (That would be a sick joke…)

I certainly hope Flickr isn’t next. As far as I know the Flickr staff are not in the current round of layoffs, but it sets a bad precedent. I don’t use the site often, but it’s a great service.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:28:21 +0000

I’ve used Delicious for years too. Really felt it was one of the sites I could trust to be there. Seeing this post on 9Rules I had to come and make sure it wasn’t a sarcastic post or a trick of some kind. I actually feel sad. I hope they would not do the same for Flickr. I am a paying user there and have been for at least three years. There isn’t another place I would move my photos to, or run the groups for photographers in each genre/ location. If they closed Flickr I would have no reason to use Yahoo at all, for anything.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:12:18 +0000

Agreed. I think this has come as a real shock to everyone. I’d have thought Delicious was one of their most useful properties. Definitely one of their best loved ones!

It’s just downright pathetic that they aren’t even going to try to make it profitable. I hope it’s a warning for future founders against selling out to Yahoo…