Just wanted to throw my two cents behind this - while creating a bookmarking site that would be useful for everyone would be very cool, my understanding of this was that it would be geared towards a specific group that got marginalized by the new Delicious: fandom. Delicious was a major source of information sharing and organizing/curating within fandom (not to say it wasn't for other groups as well!) and none of the other bookmarking sites out there now work as well for fandom as old Delicious did. Creating a space that is fandom focused, but friendly to other groups, doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. We tend to be marginalized when we use other sites and we may be more vulnerable to losing our spaces - as with the livejournal scares - because part of what we explore in our creations are sex and sensuality, often of varying degrees of social deviance. There has been a movement lately in fandom to create centralized safe spaces that we own, like AO3, so that we can have the kind of continuity that we haven't necessarily had in the past - and I am totally behind that. A lot of different groups were negatively impacted by the new Delicious, I completely understand that, it sucks for everyone. Maybe there will be other bookmarking sites that will pop up to fill that void. I just don't think that we should feel obligated to make this site into that. As I understand it this was started by fans, and if it's going to be the work of fans I don't see a problem with us owning that. I don't mean to sound harsh, but nothing is stopping a like-minded group of academics or chefs from doing what we are - and if they do I will be one of the first people to cheer them on - but this project was conceived to serve a specific population and there isn't anything wrong with that.
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Date: 6 Oct 2011 10:54 pm (UTC)Delicious was a major source of information sharing and organizing/curating within fandom (not to say it wasn't for other groups as well!) and none of the other bookmarking sites out there now work as well for fandom as old Delicious did. Creating a space that is fandom focused, but friendly to other groups, doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. We tend to be marginalized when we use other sites and we may be more vulnerable to losing our spaces - as with the livejournal scares - because part of what we explore in our creations are sex and sensuality, often of varying degrees of social deviance. There has been a movement lately in fandom to create centralized safe spaces that we own, like AO3, so that we can have the kind of continuity that we haven't necessarily had in the past - and I am totally behind that.
A lot of different groups were negatively impacted by the new Delicious, I completely understand that, it sucks for everyone. Maybe there will be other bookmarking sites that will pop up to fill that void. I just don't think that we should feel obligated to make this site into that. As I understand it this was started by fans, and if it's going to be the work of fans I don't see a problem with us owning that. I don't mean to sound harsh, but nothing is stopping a like-minded group of academics or chefs from doing what we are - and if they do I will be one of the first people to cheer them on - but this project was conceived to serve a specific population and there isn't anything wrong with that.