Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?

With Delicious closing down we thought we would recommend our bookmarking site - Favilous. We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down! We had been working on a major revamp of the site and it just so happened Delicious made their announcement (or didn't make their announcement!) when we were about to press the launch button.<p>What do we offer?<p>Bookmark quickly and effectively for free.<p>Attractive site with users having the ability to customise backgrounds and arrange bookmarks in categories.<p>Save articles for viewing later - so now you can bookmark and view sites later, a combination we do not think exists.<p>Users can see what sites are hot and what sites are popular.<p>Social - Follow people who bookmark things of interest.<p>Bookmark things on the fly with a click of a button and it saves it to your inbox for viewing later.<p>View what the community is bookmarking - this page is of great value as it offers descriptions of the sites that are being bookmarked.<p>Import bookmarks from various sources including delicious.<p>Background We are a 2 man startup from the UK. We are bootstrapped. We have thousands of links already bookmarked from thousands of different users.<p>We would love to know what you think and what feedback you may have so that we can improve the service for new and existing users.<p>thanks!

Interesting site. I signed up with a test account, but I can't get the "Create a new bookmark" link to work.<p>The background is very dark and I almost couldn't see the search field because it's only one shade lighter. I couldn't figure out how to change my backdrop. I clicked a new color, but couldn't figure out how to save it.<p>I currently use Pinboard.in and so far think it was worth the $7.XX I spent to sign up. How do you differ from them? How will you fight spam links?<p>How do we know if you will never close down? Maybe you won't sell to Yahoo! but what about someone else?

I've been using <a href="http://historio.us" rel="nofollow">http://historio.us</a> for a few weeks now and have been impressed. Now, I've not looked at other services, but I think its great that I don't have a desktop filled with shortcuts that I will never use. Indeed, it's really helped me a few times when I know what was on a site, but not what the site was called - a quick search and I find it. It makes life easier and the free version will handle up to around 300 bookmarks I think. I did pay for the full version and was a bit disappointed that the 'tagging' was handled after the bookmarking (so I never use it) but its a good service.

Delicious is not being closed down, this should be old news by now: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101217/tc_pcworld/yahoowerenotshuttingdowndelicious" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101217/tc_pcworld/yahoower...</a><p>So there is no need to jump ship, unless you want to of course.

I never got the whole bookmarking craze. Why is this useful? Google has every link on the web and you can easily search for things. It always seemed easier just go to google and search again then try to bookmark, tag and use another search to find a link you may never use again.

I wrote my own Delicious alternative: <a href="http://1r7.net" rel="nofollow">http://1r7.net</a> :)<p>I'm working on OAuth integration with Yahoo for import, some nifty display stuff, and device-aware CSS for clean browsing on your phone or ipad or whatnot. It's a fun project.

Suggestion: use OpenID for authentication. I'm going to test the site anyway, but I'm really not looking forward to the prospect of creating yet another account on yet another site.