Nice one yahoo now we cannot even login to our iPhone apps...
this has complicated things so much more all because they want to use delicious to market more users on yahoo... separate the two and GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!!!
seriously who came up with such a dumbfounded idea? I want a bookmarking website not a redirecting site sending me to yahoo or asking me about yahoo ID's... not to mention how horrible yahoo mail and the GUI is... the thing asks for your password for EVERY SINGLE THING YOU DO! =( to even open an email it asks for your ID password... redundant.
bad move... 2 separate login GUI's? yahoo being one of them? this is how good websites get ruined...
Thank you for expressing your concerns - we appreciate that you care about Delicious like we do. Developers are working on making their iPhone apps compatible with the Yahoo! login system. For now, you might want to try the official mobile site, which is designed to work nicely on iPhones (although not as sophisticated as an app): http://m.delicious.com/
As part of Yahoo! for almost four years (the majority of Delicious' life), we've been planning for a very long time to include signing up for Delicious with a Yahoo! account. This isn't a marketing ploy, but a way to open up more opportunities for useful features across Yahoo! and Delicious. It also allows the Delicious team to focus more on the site itself, since eventually we won't have to maintain and support a separate account system.
You shouldn't have to log into Delicious excessively often; let us know if something like that is going wrong.
*You shouldn't have to log into Delicious excessively often; let us know if something like that is going wrong. *
Unless, of course, you have multiple accounts that you work with (home, teaching, fannish, and hobby groups). But apparently yahoo did the math and users with multiple accounts aren't worth the bother. It's a bit frustrating to find out that those of us who are passionate about delicious count for so little. I know I've stopped recommending the site to others and will be looking for alternative sites to use in future endeavors.
del.icio.us started out not even requiring an email to register ..
This suddenly changed as Yahoo jumped in and Joshua fled along with alot of other people who believed Yahoo had lost control of it's value (for example the 0-dollar Microsoft-Yahoo search alliance) ..
"On June 12, 2008, Yahoo announced that it had ended all talks with Microsoft about purchasing either part of the business (the search advertising business) or all of the company. Talks had taken place the previous weekend (June 8), during which Microsoft allegedly told Yahoo that it was no longer interested in a purchase of the entire company at the price offered earlier -- $33/share. Also on June 12, Yahoo announced a non-exclusive search advertising alliance with Google.[56] Upon this announcement, many executives and senior employees have announced their plans to leave the company as it appears that they have lost confidence in Yahoo's strategies. According to market analysts, these pending departures are also impacting Wall Street's perception of the company.[57]
On July 7, 2008, Microsoft said it would reconsider proposing another bid for Yahoo if the company's nine directors were ousted at the annual meeting scheduled to be held on August 1, 2008. Microsoft believes it would be able to better negotiate with a new board.[58]
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, calling the current board irrational in its approach to talks with Microsoft, launched a proxy fight to replace Yahoo's board. On July 21, 2008 Yahoo settled with Carl Icahn, agreeing to appoint him and two allies to an expanded board.
On November 20, 2008, almost 10 months after Microsoft's initial offer of $33 per share, Yahoo's stock (YHOO) dropped to a 52-week low, trading at only $8.94 per share.[59]
On November 30, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo's Search business for $20 billion.[60]
On July 29, 2009, it was announced with a 10 year deal that Microsoft will have full access to Yahoo search engine to be used in Microsoft future projects for its search engine Bing.[61] Under the deal, Microsoft was not required to pay any cash up front to Yahoo. The day after the deal was announced, Yahoo's share price declined more than 10% to $15.14, about 60% lower than Microsoft's takeover bid a year earlier."
Why did he left? Because the intentional values of del.icio.us was gone? It's sad to see that even your bookmarks has a price and simply cannot stay at the clean, sleek and fast home they used to ..
Hey, if this is going to be a thread about Yahoo! ID...why are my bookmarks showing up as Johnny's even though the handle is delicious.com/Mircon_01? I mean, if I wanted my name there, I WOULD HAVE PUT MY NAME THERE. And every time I try to figure out how to change it, I get shuffled back to Yahoo! ID, (which I didn't want, BTW) where I have to put my password in every single time I change a page.
The added link to a yahoo id login is confusing. Delicious should have a single login and just work, no matter where one signs up. Logins proliferate the web now, and keeping track of them all is difficult enough without having to remember special login procedures.
Yahoo! passwords keep a lot more than bookmarks private and safe, like e-mail and financial information. Delicious doesn't absolutely need to know your Yahoo! password, so we're not allowed to ask for it. Not even just for a minute while we verify who you are. Information wants to be free. The most reliable way for Delicious to keep your Yahoo! password secure is simply not to know it at all.
I think we've done pretty well within our constraints. Of course, there's always room for improvement. We welcome suggestions to improve our dual-login system, but at this time we can't get rid of either login procedure.
it would have been neat if you were able to link your yahoo! id with your delicious id, and have the option of signing in with either one instead of just the former, like how youtube allows you to sign in with your google id