Today’s error message:
Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. [sic] 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.
Now, as I said before, I wish to imply absolutely no causative relationship between del.icio.us’ recent service problems and their new owner, Yahoo!. As del.icio.us themselves said when the power went out on December 14th: “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.)”
I’d just like to restate my earlier observation: Yahoo! has bought del.icio.us, and del.icio.us now sucks. Leaping to conclusions is left as an exercise for the reader.
I hope it gets better soon.
(On a related note, we also had a power outage at home this morning, around 0700J. D said she heard some kind of noise outside, and then our three UPSes started beeping the running-on-battery-power symphony. After shutting everything down, we went outside to check the breakers, and our neighbor two houses down pointed out a red light on the transformer atop our nearest utility pole and said that it usually takes PG&E a while to get to it after a storm, since it only feeds five or six houses– not even the whole block. One of our cats spent about an hour exploring the unusually silent house.)
Why not check out http://www.blinklist.com? Perhaps you will find it to be a del.icio.us alternative. We are working hard at making our site better and better so if you get the chance to check out our site, it would be great to hear your thoughts. Mike