This has me a little nervous. I sure hope Joshua/Yahoo! have decent backups…
There were over 700 bookmarks in there this morning. Now it’s saying my account is empty. Man, that would suck. Definitely the major downside of using an offsite bookmark manager…
It seems like del.icio.us was more stable before Yahoo! got involved. Maybe this is just a big Moving Of Servers from Joshua’s basement to the Yahoo datacentre?
It looks like it might be just my account. I’ve checked several others, and they all appear to be behaving normally. Crap.
Update: Whew. It’s back. Running delicious2Safari now…
Update 2: OK. Got my stuff backed up just before stuff started hitting the fan… All del.icio.us pages are now responding with this:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updates will be posted on our blog as we have them.
This has me a little nervous. I sure hope Joshua/Yahoo! have decent backups…
There were over 700 bookmarks in there this morning. Now it’s saying my account is empty. Man, that would suck. Definitely the major downside of using an offsite bookmark manager…
It seems like del.icio.us was more stable before Yahoo! got involved. Maybe this is just a big Moving Of Servers from Joshua’s basement to the Yahoo datacentre?
It looks like it might be just my account. I’ve checked several others, and they all appear to be behaving normally. Crap.
Update: Whew. It’s back. Running delicious2Safari now…
Update 2: OK. Got my stuff backed up just before stuff started hitting the fan… All del.icio.us pages are now responding with this:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updates will be posted on our blog as we have them.
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While del.icio.us is down, I thought you might like to give http://www.blinklist.com a try. Perhaps you might find our new service to be a delicious alternative. Either way, I would love to hear your thoughts on how we can make our service better and better since we are constantly making improvements. Hope to hear from you. Mike
You might control your bookmarks. SiteBar.org offers free open source bookmark server sotware you can download and install on your server (in case you use hosting you can trust :-). Though, SiteBar service is available too. But not really social bookmarking at the moment 🙁
http://sitebar.org
It appears to be back up now. It started struggling to its feet earlier this afternoon, but was suffering some serious signs of high server load. Now it appears to be standing on its own, perhaps a bit out of breath, bruised, and battered. Whew. 🙂
Cole – back up early, back up often… I run periodic delicious2safari backups of my account, Just In Case, but I suppose a more fully-featured XML dump backup would be handy. Just run a cronjob to back up to an XML file every night, and have a small desktop app that lives on top of that xml. Maybe something to play around with over Christmas… 🙂
John, thanks for the tip (and the congrats). I’d tried Flock, but I just can’t make myself use Mozilla-based browsers full time. Safari just feels right to me, and I feel like I’m using someone else’s browser when I’m using Firefox.
After reading your post, I went to check my account and received the same system is down message. Then I remembered I am running Flock as my browser. Turns out that it synchronizes my favorites with del.icio.us and stores a local copy. How cool is that? Anyway, the browser (based on Firefox) is pretty nice for a beta, folks may wish to give it a try.
Good luck with your efforts and congrats on your EduBlog Award!!!
– john –
As soon as I read the original post here I went and ran delicious2safari … I fee lucky. I had my own instance of scuttle running last year and tried using it for a time. It actually works a lot like del.icio.us, but lacks the overall strength of the community — that’s what makes the social part go. Either way, it all has me wondering if it isn’t time to go back to a personally run online bookmarking tool? I wonder what the downside to that would be? I know the social aspect is killer, but so is losing all those bookmarks … hmm.