Great idea.

Yes, including Meta Pages in the feeds would make more sense. Good thinking.

I know that Diigo can shorten annotated links. I suggest that when cross-posting to Delicious, the shortened link be exported into the Delicious description field, instead of the current long annotated link.

The way it is now, the link looks messy, and it's hard to read because of the URL encoding. In addition, since links aren't clickable in Delicious descriptions, a user will have to copy-and-paste the link text in order to open the annotated link page. This would be much easier if the link were shorter, and I think it would encourage more Delicious users to check out Diigo's features.

This is obviously not urgent, and I suggest it as a humble user and supporter of Diigo's activities. I think it's come up before in the forums, but a quick search did not turn it up.

Best wishes. I'm loving v4.

Nathan

I've tried repeatedly for several weeks to create a new RSS-based slideshow at http://slides.diigo.com and each time I get the response, "Looks like this feed is invalid or not currently responding." Needless to say I have tried this with multiple feeds, all of which I've tested in other readers and all of which are valid and working fine. I have one RSS-based slideshow bookmarked, and when I try to view it, I get the response, "We are experiencing technical difficulties."

Has support for RSS-based slideshows been discontinued?

Over the past couple of weeks, I've posted about this on this forum before, and I've sent a Twitter post to @diigo, and each time I've gotten no response or acknowledgment.

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, and I realize this is a free service with a limited staff and resources, but when I see something like Webslides apparently being abandoned by the company that created it, without any announcement or response to repeated support requests, it makes me wonder about the future reliability of Diigo as a service. Is it time for me to pull my bookmarks out and move on?

Sorry, Maggie. I didn't mean to be a jerk, really. I think what you guys have built here is brilliant. I love Diigo and depend on it heavily. From the outside, though, as a user, it's hard to see the big picture -- it just kind of seemed like the feature I was trying to use was broken and no one was noticing. I had a lot of data in Ma.gnolia when they vanished, so I have gotten cautious. I have huge, huge amounts of my stuff stored in Diigo -- something on the order of six thousand bookmarks going back to 2005 -- and not all of it is easily backed up.


And for anyone who hasn't tried it, Webslides is genius. It has the potential to completely change the way you use feeds. I have used it extensively in classes and for all sorts of (probably unanticipated) purposes.

Best,
Nathan

UPDATE: and for the record, I haven't tested extensively, but Webslides RSS seems fine now. Thank you.



Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Thanks for reporting. Feeds were temporarily "broken" due to our new server setting change for the upcoming release. Should be fixed now. Please check.
>
> NOTE: again, our work requires a lot of concentration and sometimes we have very limited bandwidth. At times we may be in a "radio silent" mode in order to get things done. Please be a little bit patient at time like this (and knowing that it's rather difficult for us to respond to every single communication, although we do try hard to monitor and interact with our users as much as we can...)
>
> Our team has been working countless hours to deliver good services to our users all these time. Positive encouragement and recognition for our hard work are appreciated!

Hello --

I cannot create a new slideshow in Webslides. I have had success with this process in the past, but now, when I supply a feed URL (RSS or Atom) I get this error message: "Looks like this feed is not valid or currently is not responding." I've tested it with multiple feed URLs, all of which I am able to access directly in my browser and via feed readers.

I only was able to get to one previously created slideshow, and when I opened the URL

http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=7604

... I got the error message: "Sorry. We are experiencing temporary difficulties. Please try again later."

This has been going on for at least a week.

Nathan

I have been depending on Diigo to post to Delicious, but I just discovered that starting around twenty-four hours ago (not sure exactly), none of my bookmarks were posted to Delicious.



Is there something that can be done about this, or do I have to repost each one to Delicious manually?



And is there a way to export a list of bookmarks out of Diigo? I can't find one.



Thanks

Nathan

Delicious.com cross-posting is not working for me either, since some time on April 14.

I wonder if the Diigo admins are actually checking this thread? It is tagged "resolved."

It was working for a while, but it stopped yesterday for me as well (4/25).

My input: first, the "annotated link" text in the Delicious description. I would be OK with it staying but not URL-encoded. It's too long and unreadable, and you have to URL-decode it before you can even paste it into a browser location bar. Better still would be if it could be TinyURL-ed first (or, ideally, using an in-house Diigo-based URL shortener).

Second: I have had some success having changes to bookmarks in Diigo passed to Delicious. If it's not happening for you, then there may be some problems in the communication via the Delicious API. Don't have any guesses as to where the problem might be ... except:

Third (and I should probably start a new thread with this): starting late yesterday, none of my Diigo bookmarks were exported into Delicious. Up to that point it was working great. Other services that I use (Clipmarks, Mento) have been posting to Delicious without a problem.

Nathan

I just discovered that when I use the "save elsewhere" feature on a bookmark with an ampersand in the URL, the exported URL breaks at the ampersand character. The ampersand and everything following it is dropped. I can't believe i never noticed this till now -- it means a bunch of my delicious bookmarks point to the wrong page.

For example, when I bookmarked the URL
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-loss-of-privacy-may-mean-loss-of-security&print=true

the following URL was sent to Ma.gnolia and Delicious:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-loss-of-privacy-may-mean-loss-of-security

Best
Nathan Rein

My "post elsewhere" function has been working only erratically -- failing to post to delicious more often than not, but with a few successful posts.

http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/del-icio-us-and-ma-gnolia-exporting-has-become-erratic-5387

If you come up with anything, please share.
Nathan

For the last few days, only a fraction of the bookmarks I've saved using the Diigo toolbar have been exported to del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia. Based on the posting times, it looks as though exporting stopped, (but not completely) sometime on July 28. SInce then, I have posted fourteen links to Diigo. Four were posted to del.icio.us, and five were posted to Ma.gnolia (the same four, plus one more), all today. The last batch were posted to Diigo using the toolbar sometime on July 28 and were forwarded to del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia around 11 pm EDT, July 30.

The relevant links are:
http://www.diigo.com/user/nathanrein
http://del.icio.us/myroblyte
http://ma.gnolia.com/people/nbr/bookmarks

Any insight would be helpful. I am very dependent on the export feature.

Update: After several successful posts a few days ago, none of my Diigo bookmarks have been saved to delicious. I had an email exchange with Joel from Diigo, who said the problem was on delicious's side. However, I have several other services auto-posting to delicious without trouble, and it seem like other people haven't been having the same problem. So, for the moment, I'm going to hold off on posting anything to Diigo, since it doesn't look like this issue's going to be solved.

On the other hand, posting to Ma.gnolia seems to be working fine.

Some time after making my original post, the problem seems to have been corrected. Over the past week or two, I have been finding that exports to delicious have been working quickly and reliably. Sorry, I should have posted this update earlier.