Comments on: An early look at the new Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us gets even tastier social bookmarking with a new update.

[rubenerd]

I'm not looking forward to this.

Perhaps its because I'm not used to it, but the new interface looks simply
terrible. The point of del.icio.us, you could say the reason for it's existance, is
simplicity and a quick page to refer to with your own collection of links.
That's it.

This new version looks like they've added a lot of flash and pazazz, at a huge
cost to simplicity both from the point of view of usabillity but also visually. I
really think they're taking a huge step backwards with this.

I'm certainly not signing up for the preview. Maybe when its forced upon me
when they roll it out to everyone I'll get used to it, but here's hoping that's
not for a while yet.

A few years ago it seemed as though the web design community at large were
leaning toward simpler and cleaner interfaces, but just in the last 18 months
feature creep seems to be setting into many of these. I hope Flickr for
example doesn't recieve a similar "upgrade".

Don't get me wrong, I think del.icio.us is the bees' knees, but I hope they
allow a "classic" interface too. When I have work to do I just want a simple site
I can refer to quickly without distractions.

I'm hoping to be pleasently surprised and disproven when the final version
comes.

Cheers
Ruben

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Don't let the new look fool you

Don't be too scared of change Ruben. Despite it's "flashy" look, the tweaks are mostly on the usability side of things. The exploratory nature of the service is still there, and re-design of the navigation should save you time and clicks when it comes to your own set of bookmarks.

[mrgrimes]

Why the name change?

Sure, 'del.icio.us' is more cumbersome than 'delicious', but it's also unique. Try googling them both and see which gets better results (I wouldn't have found this article so easily if I'd googled 'delicious').