The famed social bookmarking service Delicious uncovered a new design today that is supposed to be faster, include more powerful searching, and be flat out easier on the eyes. Sound exciting? Well, we first got a glimpse of the new design nearly a year ago, but there were some bumps in the road that kept them from getting it released.
One other thing that heavy Delicious users will notice is that the domain is no longer Del.icio.us like we’re all used to. Instead they’ve moved the site to Delicious.com, which will probably be easier for new members to remember. It’s just sad to see one of the first web 2.0-style domain names get retired.
The new site is already live, and you can start playing with the great new features:
- Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.
- Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.
- Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion. At the same time, we’re hoping that newcomers to Delicious will find it easier to learn. Check out the What’s New page for an overview of the changes, or watch this animation that sums it up nicely:
Personally I’ve never used Delicious very much, and so I’m curious what the Delicious users out there think of the new design. Is it everything you hoped for?
Overall excellent design changes with fast search as a bonus
cons: No thumbnail similar to what magnolia offers
I just used it. I didn’t know Yahoo had upgraded the place. I loved what I saw. A nice and clean site with intuitive buttons.
As a heavy user of Delicious I’m very happy with the new version. I also prefer the new name. Never understood why they divided the name with dots.
I like that it tells you dates added instead of the “3 days ago” thing. That got on my nerves.
I also like the new way it shows you how many people have it bookmarked.
Yeah, all in all it looks like it’ll take me a few days to get used to it, but it looks like most things changed for the better.
Sounds like overall all of you like the design changes. I think they did a good job of revamping the site, without changing so much that it would make users do a double-take.
Wow, fantastic update! Yahoo is impressing me more and more with their sites. Really high quality, usable, fast, good looking sites that are not too obviously focused on making money but on creating a great user experience. If anyone buys Facebook, I hope it’s going to be Yahoo. They would be a great match in this regard.
Wow!
I’m loving the new Web2.0 design! They did it without changing the whole delicious feel – simple and clean..
but I miss the old domain name
The update makes the site even more functional. And now I can finally remember how to spell the URL.
I’m REALLY ticked off that they changed the URL. Other than that, it’s pretty cool.
agreed. much better interface and very easy on the eyes.