I never bothered to figure out what happened. It was del.icio.us where everything was lean and clean and worked well and at some point it moved to delicious.com and went to shit. At least that's how I remember things. ;)
Don't know the history of it but I didn't see a revenue model and they ended up pivoting around for something that would make money. Seems like there are certain ideas which are destined to be great services but not great businesses. We should figure out a way to put them into the public demesne where they can be collectively supported in a non-profit way, rather than see them die off after unsuccessful pivots
I believe the founder, Joshua Schachter, should be the best person to answer that. He is also another active HackerNews user[1]. Unlike Flickr, I think, Delicious was never rescued from Yahoo!
Wallabag[0] is useful too if you want a self-hosted bookmarking solution. I'm with Pinboard too, but regularly export my bookmarks so I have a backed up local copy of recent bookmarks I've added to Pinboard.
As someone who is a heavy user of Pinboard and has had Elixir on my 'to learn properly after dabbling' list for a while, looks like a great project to explore.
Readit News
Don't know the history of it but I didn't see a revenue model and they ended up pivoting around for something that would make money. Seems like there are certain ideas which are destined to be great services but not great businesses. We should figure out a way to put them into the public demesne where they can be collectively supported in a non-profit way, rather than see them die off after unsuccessful pivots
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu
So people talking about this is exciting!
[0] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
[0] https://wallabag.org/
Same thing, free, work like pinboard.in
As someone who is a heavy user of Pinboard and has had Elixir on my 'to learn properly after dabbling' list for a while, looks like a great project to explore.