After much effort, we've finally released our official Firefox extension which supports Firefox 1.0.7+ and up.
Highlights include:
Position these buttons anywhere you'd like.
The popup disappears after you hit "save".
Right-click on a link to post that link.
Notes can help you remember an item.
Menu can be hidden if desired.
Discover new sites.
We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)
We want to thank everyone who has helped us along the way - our employees, our great investors and advisors, and especially our users. We still want to get your feedback, and we look forward to bringing you new features and more servers in the future.
I look forward to continuing my vision of social and community memory, and taking it to the next level with the del.icio.us community and Yahoo!
Our datacenter has had full power outage, and we are now recovering from the aftermath. About half of the machines are still down and we are working on bringing them back as soon as possible. To keep things moving, I've turned off RSS and some other features so that posting will still work and so that you will still have access to your bookmarks.
5pm EST Update: Everything is back up. We apologize for the inconvenience. It looks like a number of slave servers are corrupted. We're rebuilding them now and taken the site down so this goes as quickly as possible.
Update: Some servers are coming up. Should be going much faster from here on in.
PS -- we are obviously not yet on the Yahoo! infrastructure, and this is exactly the kind of stuff they can do a lot better for us (and you.)
Update: Most stuff is up, finally. Tag intersections are currently not working, and search is not updating -- a few servers would not come up. We'll bring them up tomorrow when we return to the east coast.
Update: Indexes are almost done rebuilding. When that is done, we can then copy the data to the various database servers and start the service back up. Almost done -- hang in there.
Update: Still waiting for the last remaining index to build. No data has been lost -- we just need to fix the tables so the databases can find things quickly. This appears to be largely due to a RAID failure after our power outage earlier in the week - one of the indexes became corrupted and crashed the master database; for some reason the slaves replicated bad data from the master and then ended up crashing infinitely.
Update: We're done rebuilding databases and I am now pushing copies to the slave servers. When that is done I can bring the site up.
Update: We are back up! Now working on tag intersections, the search engine, and the inbox. Yahoo! has started helping out, so I hope to provide a higher level of service as soon as possible.
Our colocation facility bounced the power again (apparently in order to deal with the failed UPS that caused our previous incident.) We are on route to the facility to bring servers back online now and that should be done shortly. We have been and will continue to work with Yahoo! to migrate to better facilities as fast as humanly possible.
Update (10:50 PM EST): We are at the facility and are bringing up machines now.
Update (11:14 PM EST): Bringing up slaves now. Should be done shortly.
Update (12:09 PM EST): All but one server up now. Bringing up inbox, search, etc.
Update (12:20 PM EST): The facility will be cutting power back over to the UPS at 1 AM. Supposedly this will not affect service, but neither was the test that brought everything down... cross your fingers.
Update (2:04 AM EST): Still waiting for the cutover back to the UPS. They're planning to give us an hour warning, and have not done so yet. We'll bring down the site beforehand so we can boot cleanly in case they drop power again.
Update (6:37 AM EST): They just cut over power to the UPS and bounced power again. We're bringing stuff back online again, everything should be good in a few minutes.
Update (6:57 AM EST): Everything is back online.
We're moving to more and bigger hardware (we lost a number of machines in our previous power outages.) I'm looking forward to moving out of damage-control mode and continuing to roll out new features and functionality.
Update: We've done the migration. We're working on a few minor issues but most stuff works.
Please join Flickr, Upcoming.org, Del.icio.us, and Yahoo!, for Happy Hour on Sunday March 12 at Iron Cactus on the corner of Trinity and 6th from 5 to 7-ish. It'll be fun!
Terms of Service:
User Generated Content:
Note: Space is limited, so please mark that you're attending this event to get on the guest list. Yup, this means you need to have an Upcoming.org account to RSVP (cads!), but I'm sure you already have one!
Update: If you are a Flickr, del.icio.us or Upcoming.org user but don't have a SXSW badge, please RSVP here and we'll get you in!
We've just released a few small features -- inline editing, so you can edit and arrange your bookmarks much more quickly, and we've prettied up the URL info page so it is easier to get at the conversation around the links.
Just after midnight on Thursday, we'll be bringing down the site to roll out some database changes, which will allow us to release private saving and a few related features in the following week. The site will be down for about four hours; announcements will be made here as we go.
This is a big step for del.icio.us, but one that I hope will make it more useful. Because del.icio.us is all about sharing and we don’t want to discourage that, we will be watching how this feature impacts the community and will also be experimenting a bit with the UI over the next few weeks.
So if you’re one of those antisocial types who doesn’t like to share their toys, this one’s for you. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.