Disrupting the patterns of a large and loyal user base was a colossal misstep and simply unacceptable.

Like you, I’m hoping that these are just transition issues and that they’ll find their way but … the strategy and direction don’t bode well and 8 months is a long time on the Internet. I’m still rooting for Delicious but I’m not confident they’ll get there.

I too haven’t abandoned Delicious yet. I wrote this, in part, because I have gotten so much out of Delicious for so many years and would prefer not to find another solution.

I believe the tagging feature does now work but it has been spotty and the updates have not been automatic nor communicated. So you have to disable or uninstall the old plug-in or extension and then fire up the new one instead.

Stacks is just work that results in little to no value. Skip it is my recommendation. It would be nice if they course-corrected and implemented some of my suggestions but I’m not holding my breath. I’m hanging on right now but I fear i’ll be looking for a replacement in 2012.

I remember manually bookmarking web pages using Firefox’s built in bookmarking features until I discovered Delicious. Once I migrated to using it, I thought it was amazing, really useful for bookmarking the increasing number of pages/websites that I want to save for various reasons.

I was pretty dissapointed when the tagging feature stopped working. Being able to view and select tags that people already were using was a great timesaver. Is that feature gone? Otherwise I may be using a version which is a little bit out of date.

I really like your suggestions on grouping bookmarks by site and type, and organising through popularity with them utilising various metrics they should have access to. I for one haven’t had the time to look at Stacks in more detail, they are something I like the idea of, but it just seems like something that will take up more time and effort without offering me much.

I still use Delicious though, based on how much I liked it before. I hesitate to move platforms purely because I for one don’t want to use a platform completely new to me, I don’t want to loose any current bookmarks and the tags associated with them and I don’t see why they would choose to limit the functionality it had before (so I figure I will stick around).

I now use Instapaper for more recent stuff. Stuff that I am likely to read once and leave. It would be nice if Delicious had this kind of functionality as well, a dashboard similar to it perhaps?

I’m waffling now, but all I really wanted to say is that I want to stay with them. So the improvements you mentioned would be great.