Del.icio.us Broken!
June 19, 2008
Del.icio.us is broken, badly.
Analysis:
The “saved by _ people page” shows wrong numbers, Zero in many cases. Taking a look at the main page, most of the posts suggest “Saved by 96 people”
We know that a post hits frontpage once it is approaching 100 (people) [or even more in some cases]. The reason for this particular status of the page is due to that, The links marked by 96 people hits frontpage, does NOT increase even though more people are marking, where lies the problem (broken, remember!). New links marked my people are not being counted, in other words, “Saved by” pages are not being updated with new usernames.
Also taking a look at the popular page, most of the posts are atleast a week old, now re-appearing on the page, only because new links are
being rendered Orphan.
The result is that, the social aspect of the site is Zilch.
The del.icio.us feedback team replied promptly to my mail, re-assuring it will be fixed in “the next couple of days“.
2 days is way too much time. This, situation, is giving a hard time to Del.icio.us addicts, who may have to resort to other sites till it gets fixed.
Update 1: Its still broken (although the main pain no longer has the 96 rule)
Update 2: Del.icio.us Founder, Joshua Schachter is leaving Yahoo. How ironic is this? I wonder what happens to delicious 2.0 now?
Update 3: It appears to be working fine, for now, atleast [as of 22Jun08]
