I have 118 followers (including Maggie) but still the "Post" button is greyed out when I try to make my sticky note public. In the past I posted dozens of public stickies. At least I can post stickies to groups, but sometimes public is more appropriate.

My workaround is to cut and paste my comment from the sticky into the bookmark comment, where everyone's comments are public. This fine for a brief article, but it makes my annotation quite unhelpful to readers of long documents.

I too have needed to privately contact mebers of groups I admin, but I couldn't find such a feature.

It seems that to send a message to a user, you need to first send a friend request, and the user needs to accept that.

Diigo, please consider this a feature request.

How do the resolved tags get there?

Consider me added to the list of people requesting this. I have only been here a month, and already I have to copy and paste my description and annotations to a new bookmark because I mistyped a URL into the Diigolet.

For now, is there a way to redirect the deleted bookmark such as

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark_mana2/read_bookmark?link_id=14645146&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.swan.ac.uk%2F%7Ecsdavec%2Fpapers%2Flanguagekit.pdf.

to the new one

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark_mana2/read_bookmark?link_id=14693605&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.swan.ac.uk%2F%7Ecsdavec%2Fpapers%2Flanguagekit.pdf

? (avoids breaking backlinks)

I must add that I have just discovered that I must not only delete the bookmark from 'My bookmarks' but also both of the groups I shared it with, one by one.

The first group was ok, but the second came up with the error "Sorry, you cannot delete this bookmark because other(s) already have annotation on it."

However I cannot see any annotations (except my own) in the group bookmarks view
http://groups.diigo.com/clojure_dev/bookmark
or in the 404 page when I view it with the diigolet
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csdavec/papers/languagekit.pdf.

Have I uncovered a bug?

Hear hear to all of this. I have used the "full text'" search in Furl many times, and I am delighted that Diigo has a similar feature.

Nina Birnbaum wrote:
> Can't tell if all the private stuff is there, but all the folders seem to have arrived.

Were your private bookmarks successfully imported?

Are they marked "private" in Diigo?

Joel Liu wrote:
> We fixed a bug several days ago.

This is great news. I will start my transfer now - I am glad to hear Nina's went well.

I miss the five-star ratings on Furl.

At Furl, you star-rated your own bookmark when you made it (it was one of the fields in the bookmarklet popup, so I didn't need to go to another view to vote.)

Most useful to me was five stars: these are the very best articles that it is vital for me to find again. I also made use of 'one star' to rate my own bookmarks where I want others to realize that the bookmark was not my seal of approval, for reasons such as misleading claims, poor English, bugs, or simply an opinion I disagree with.

You can take a look at my five stars and my one stars (including my angry rants.)

(Anecdote: once a marketing person e-mailed me when I rated a web page about her company's software "3 stars" or "good". She offered me a free trial, as she thought I had rated the software "3 stars" and of course to her it deserved 5.)

Anyone know how I undo a mistaken "thumbs up"?

I accidentally "thumbed up" my own bookmark (I clicked once on the icon hoping to find a thumbs down option.) Unlike Flickr and YouTube, my clumsy vote appears to be irreversible

Lesson: Don't click on a thumb unless you mean it.

Graham Perrin wrote:
> Furl service: export
>
> l azsmith wrote:
>
> > I tried exporting my Furl archive to a zip file and was not
> > successful. The whole archive did not export and as the files are
> > merely numbered, it's not very useable.
>
> Did that Furl service work acceptably in the past?

I can't answer for L Azsmith, so here is my experience.

Yes! it worked for a couple of years. Then I started to find the export timing out, and I have not been able to get a zip or xml backup for several months. My mails to Furl support on this issue have gone unanswered. Is a Diigo person now answering Furl support mail? Now that Diigo owns Furl, I hope one of their experts can figure out the export glitches before they switch Furl off.

> Was there, is there still, a Furl equivalent of this forum for users of Furl?

Do you mean this "Diigo HQ" forum? No, not that I was ever aware of.

> Have you tried the other formats provided by Furl's
> http://www.furl.net/tools/export ?

Of the 3 general purpose export methods, only browser bookmarks works for me at the moment. Unfortunately that format does not contain my highlights or my cached pages. I patiently await a response from support before experimenting with the citation formats.

Multi word topics in Furl

I have many multiword topics in Furl. Two examples are:

• Project Management and
• Web applications

So, I too am waiting for an update on this before I add to the overload: Graham, thank you for tagging it as "priority".

wilde ny wrote:

> What should I do? Wait?

I requested my transfer about two weeks ago, and it took about a week to get 7000 bookmarks from Furl.

I am delighted to report that my private bookmarks remained private.

When I got my confirmation mail, the tags had not showed up yet, but they appeared in another day or two (though my tag cloud is not yet fully indexed.)

However, Furl Topics with spaces behaved oddly when converted into Diigo Tags. Each word became a separate tag, which makes nonsense of many of them.

For example Imported Bookmarks shows up as Imported and Bookmarks. Very confusing.

Will those tags be fixed?

Thanks for that detective work, Graham. I keep coming across backlinks to Furl that are now broken.

Seems like someone was in such a hurry they did not think to announce the date in the normal places like this forum or:
http://blog.diigo.com/
http://investor.shareholder.com/looksmart/releases.cfm

I am a little frustrated because I have (temporarily) lost access to my cache - Maggie's workaround in (h) above is no longer possible.

If I had received a reply to my support ticket saying that they weren't going to fix the backup issue, and I had known the shutdown date, I may have been able to make several dozen backups, topic by topic, and hoped not to hit the interface timeout issue that had prevented me from downloading a complete backup. However, Diigo/Looksmart were not even bothering to answer Furl support tickets, thus betraying the trust requested by the automated response mail:
"Regardless, we will be following up with a personal response in the order your message was received."

Graham Perrin wrote:

> http://blog.diigo.com/2009/03/09/diigo-acquires-furl/ is no longer available

That seems to have moved here and been updated:
http://blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/

the ravine / joseph dunphy wrote:
> I can't imagine why anybody would prefer Furl to Diigo

Missing features in Diigo:
1. star ratings of web pages
2. archive snapshots of password-protected articles

Diigo is great, and no doubt the Diigo folks will endeavor to implement those features that we Furl users love.