del.icio.us have updated their URL bookmark history page, so that now, if for example I look at the history for http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t65486.rhtml on http://del.icio.us/url/bd8e17cc6069d2573d00b525059c9eed, instead of first being told "8 people have bookmarked this, here they are, and here are there comments" it now says "8 people have bookmarked this, and hey, if you want to find out who they are, just, y'know, look around the page, I'm sure you'll find it somewhere".
How completely useless is that? The user discoverability and browsability (i.e. a huge part of the social networking system that del.icio.us has at its core) is now a definite second-class citizen. Congratulations del.icio.us! Even the tags applied to that URL are now more important! That's not retarded at all, honest!
What a fucking joke. I wonder if a Yahoo! UI team started giving recommendations or something, because after all, we all know that they're the masters of clean understandable web applications.
2lmc also point out the fucking useless page titles.
1 comment:
Are we looking at the same page? The one I see has usernames all over it, but not their tags, instead lumping the tags all in a corner of the page.
The main page now consists of a listing of extended descriptions and the names of the users who posted them – the full history of users who bookmarked the link at all is separate.
I dunno.
I agree that it’s more confusing at first sight, but I also understand what Joshua was trying to do there (namely, emphasize extended descriptions), and I think it’s a worthwhile goal. It needs some rearranging before it’s a smooth experience though.
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