Comments on: Delicious Redesigns, Drops the Dots & Adds New Features : Screenshots

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:35:49 +0000

@wayne

I disagree with you on the space delimiters. By restricting tags to single words, it creates a useful sense of uniformity and predictability.

For example, I can go to http://del.icio.us/tag/concept1+concept2 and get very predictable results. This would be more difficult if tags could be words, groups of words, phrases, etc. Imposing simple restrictions limits the amount of possible “tag synonyms” for a given concept.

Tagging works really well when there is a shared vocabulary. Introducing multi-word tag possibilities increases the number of tags you have add to a given bookmark in order to properly file in away. (Example: instead of just tagging something “museum museums” you would need to tag it “museum, museums, museum of art, art museum, museumofart, artmuseum” to accommodate the various subtle (but completely accurate) combinations.

I can think of plenty of sites that have embraced the comma-delimited tagging scheme and have pretty sloppy tagging as a result.

By: skube

skube — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:48:02 +0000

I am relatively new to del.icio.us and I find it rather confusing. I’m wondering if the new design will make nested bundle management easier. So far I’ve only had unexpected results. It seems like such a basic requirement to be able to group/categorize and sub-categorize.

Thank goodness the dots are going!

By: Rob Roy

Rob Roy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:25:44 +0000

Re previous comment….

Should say rebuilt using Symfony.

By: curly

curly — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:27:02 +0000

Thanks for good review! Looks much better now. good they did away with gimmicky dots. Hopefully they don’t phase out old domain, as many widgets would need updating…

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:03:56 +0000

Are you trying to tell us that Delicious now, for the first time ever, has actual graphic design?

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:14:17 +0000

Ooooh! It looks pretty. Hopefully, they’ll open it up to all users soon (or, ever better, I’ll manage to snag myself an invite in a day or two).

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:42:43 +0000

Will they update their widgets too?

By: John Carcutt

John Carcutt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:41:08 +0000

Good catch Wayne …

So maybe we’ll get lucky and they will develop “personalized” tagging. So when I tag something Jaguar it knows I mean the car a apposed to the cat. Then how confusing could it be …

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:42:42 +0000

Hi John, I saw that too. But it looks to be the name of a tag Bundle.

The search for tag sanity continues…

By: John Carcutt

John Carcutt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:24:50 +0000

Thanks for the head-sup Loren.

Wayne> Notice the screen shots above include the tag “Web Design”. It’s the only one, but its a glimmer of hope.