Today I spent some time making changes, to no avail (Pinboard and Dreamwidth edition)

[andrewducker]

First, I decided to finally transition over my links to Pinboard, as I'm fed up with Delicious timing out on a regular basis, having maintenance windows that last four times as long as they say, doing redesigns, and generally behaving like Livejournal.

The transition went fine, Pinboard worked faster, and seems pretty smooth. And then I discovered that their autocomplete only works with your most popular thousand tags. As I have 3,541 tags this is less than useful. Sure, the most popular ones will be there, but the first link was about Margaret Thatcher, and it turns out that I've linked a story about her precisely once before - so the tag "margaretthatcher" isn't going to be one of the most popular ones. So that knocks _them_ out of the running, which was completely unexpected. Anyone got any alternate suggestions?

My other project for the day, following LJ's inability to read RSS feeds recently, was to transition my comics filter over to DW, as their RSS reading is working just fine. This took me about an hour, as the import doesn't seem to pick up RSS feeds. And then, once it was done, I discovered that you can't make reading filters public on DW in the same way you can make flists public on LJ. So while you can happily read http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/comics you can't read http://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/read/comics - which would be fine if I didn't know of a few people that read my comics filter. So I lodged a support request, but that's not going to get a speedy resolution

*sigh*

And now it's time to put down the internet, tidy the flat, do some shopping, and then head to the airport to meet Julie.

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

1) Um. momentsmusicaux is.

2) You should, he's great.

3) So in your actual usage case, the tag also does nothing, since it's only connecting to one other link, and is thus essentially useless. Also, you didn't address my point re: manual adding. Is the annoyance of having to manually type tags worse than being with Delicious?

[andrewducker]

1) Aaaah. Don't take that thread seriously. I'm certainly not, I was joking around in the first place, and said at the end of it that it's not something I have any interest in.
2) I don't read Twitter. Haven't in a very long time, and never did more than intermittently.
3) And it does something - it links together tags on the same topic. In this case it would link together two tags about Margaret Thatcher, so that people who see the second one and wonder what else I've tagged about her can find the first one.
3) Yes. Losing the entire point of tagging (for me) is not worth the pain of Delicious occasionally being flaky. I am looking at Diigo, which seems to do everything I want, but I need to add a reader for it to my feed app before I can do that, and I'm busy rewriting my CV at the moment.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

...losing the entire point of tagging ≠ using a keyboard.

[andrewducker]

I don't understand what you're saying there.

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

You're not losing the entire ability to use anything but the 1000 top tags. You're losing autocomplete. You didn't answer my question – is manual typing really so bad it completely renders a service obsolete for you?

Also: given that Pinboard gives you your tag cloud and you can click tags to add them, is that not an acceptable substitute?

[andrewducker]

Aaah, gotcha.

In this case, I didn't know if my tag was "MaggieThatcher", "MargaretThatcher", "Thatcher" or something else (or, indeed, if I didn't have one).

With autocomplete I can try a couple of those out and get the right one fairly quickly, rather than having to go off and find the original link to get the right one.

At the moment, Delicious is being a bit slow, and somewhat flaky, but not so godawful that I'm clamouring to get out. If I was then I'd put up with the autocomplete lack, or go to Diigo. But there's not enough pressure to put up with the lack of a feature I use every time I post.

[andrewducker]

By the tag cloud do you mean the big list on the same page?

That only contains the most common 1000-odd tags you have, sadly. I checked that first!