Kaigou is hosting a brainstorming post over on DW about what your dream bookmarking service would be like. This is not attached to an existing service (like the Pinboard googledoc is).

Delicious have updated their blog; there are a lot of bugs fixed already. I just looked for /tag/jared/jensen and got back what looks like a useable list of fic to read (although there's still some info missing -- like who bookmarked each link).

I'm attempting to use Diigo's List feature to replace my delicious subscription feed, but it's not as good. What are the rest of you using?

What I'm missing most is the particular combination of features delicious had, allowing you to see at a glance:

-chronological order of bookmarks for a given tag across the whole site
-how many times each link had been bookmarked (ie. popularity/newness)
-who bookmarked it this time
-whether I had it bookmarked too (ie. had I already read it)
-url (so I could choose between AO3, DW, LJ etc)
-comment field (usually with a description of the fic)
-tags

Does any other site do all that? Can add-ons or account settings get one most of the way?

Surely there must be something similar?

Yeah, it really was the best of the best for finding new fic to read that was just what you wanted. It's surprising that no other site has filled that gap even half as well, given how everyone bemoans the noise of the internet.

Ironic that one of the few services to actually manage to cut out the noise in a really significant way, revamped the service to cut noise and increased it instead. LOL.

I don't think many people understood the functionality of delicious, especially outside of fandom. I can't think of another explanation for the way people are trying desperately to fix a problem that delicious had already been fixed. Now it's no longer working, I find myself going "Huh, I guess this is what people mean when they say they can't find stuff online". Just shows that fandom is really bloody good at making its own stuff inside the cracks of other people's stuff.

Thanks Dreamer Too. I've been hearing good things about Pinboard across the fannish sphere, so I think I'll give it a go as a backup for Diigo.

A list of fans across various services. Public editable Google doc.

If they bring back basic functionality, I will be much more open to the new stuff they are planning. Some of it actually sounds fun, just not at the expense of being able to use the site as a social bookmarking site. Yanno?

I know that a knee-jerk negative reaction to change is normal, but I've been really surprised over the last year or so at how badly some of the big players have misjudged and mismanaged their launches of Web 2 stuff (coff Google+ coff). And with AVOS coming from the YouTube team, this is their business, so why so poorly launched?

I've been playing around with Diigo's 'list' function and discovered that you can get something like a subscription feed to the community tags you want to follow. Here's my current feed: http://www.diigo.com/list/cupidsbow/fanfic-reading-list

Has anyone found a better way? (Other than RSS)

Good news, but it's still probably worth backing up your data.

Interesting call for discussion on how to create a fannish bookmarking service, perhaps something which links existing services like AO3 and DW, plus Pinboard, Diigo etc.

A list of pros and cons for each site, and still being edited on the fly.

Yeah, I was thinking of using Google as a private backup, while looking for somethng better. But a fannish solution is the ideal one. If we have a service that lets us integrate OTW sites and DW with a social networking system, along with out existing libraries, it would be like fandom Nirvana. :)

Thanks for the update -- that was kind of the impression I had of Google bookmarks, but hadn't tried them out yet. I actually really like the combination of Diigo and Delicious -- they have complimentary strengths and I get a back-up with no extra effort. I think the only thing that would really tempt me to move to another setup (outside of one or both closing down or becoming unusable) would be a fannish sevice. For that, I'd rearrange everything.