New Delicious - Hackdot

Re:New Delicious by jaysonelliot on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @02:42AM (#6558350)

I logged in (for the first time in at least a year) and snapped a screenshot: http://www.clipular.com/posts/5191729086988288?k=JiS8gdhlAch...

On first blush, it's underwhelming. A lot of monotone flatness, which I'm sure hit some kind of trend that got it greenlit, but doesn't make for good UX.

The interface is a solid wall of text that makes it very hard to distinguish one link from the next. There's no signposts to make it easy to tell where you are, or what you're able to do.

I ran through the bookmarking process, and it's clunky. Still asks you to tag things, only now things like the suggested tags are gone, meaning you have to think even more about what you're doing as you save bookmarks.

There's nothing really new that I can see, just a coat of paint and a lot of gratuitous flatness. Flat for flat's sake is definitely this year's skeuomorphism.

Full disclosure: I work with a clipping service that might be considered a Delicious competitor. (But I'd have the same critiques even if I didn't).

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Re:New Delicious by k-mcgrady on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @08:56AM (#6559362)

I'm not a designer but aesthetically it looks horrible to me. It's bad enough that if it was a site I hadn't heard of or used I wouldn't sign up.

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Re:New Delicious by greg5green on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @10:35AM (#6559868)

There actually are still suggested tags. The field shows up between "Tags" and "Comments" if the link has been tagged before.

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Re:New Delicious by thibauts on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:15AM (#6558557)

Has it been acquired by microsoft ? (sarcasm)

  @user downvoter and (max-iq: 12) {
      Wow ! In my humble opinion this site may have lost its
      identity and brand, if I'm not mistaken !
  }

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