I wish someone brought back a Delicious clone. I loved its naive Web 2.0 aesthetics.

I think it was a really nice service. Right now all similar ones I know of are unpleasant to use and get in your way.

It was really minimal and useful to find new things. One particular area where link sharing makes a lot of sense, yet existing services are not very nice, is academic papers.

I don’t really remember delicious, but what would the difference be from something like https://pinboard.in/popular/ ? I was under the impression that’s basically a clone. Was it just a different aesthetic?

Pinboard was a clone with a different business model: users actually paid for it.

Fast forward, and delicious died, only to be acquired by — you guessed it — Pinboard [1]. Because Pinboard was actually serving its paying customers, it just kept trucking along.

[1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

delicious launched before Pinboard, IIRC. There were a number of such services.

try it out. del.icio.us

That's exactly what happened and made me hate Yahoo even more than I already had. The day delicious was shut down for good I lost something that I have never managed to replace. Sad times :(

It still exists.