I can't really complain level-headedly, because it seems like the way I use the site is not how I will be able to use the site in the future. The thing I don't see addressed in the FAQ is the use of recent and popular for tags. How I currently use delicious is that I chose a fanfic pairing (say John/Sherlock) and click on recent or popular. Then I choose what to read. Now if I search for John/sherlock, I get my links, I get a list of other links (no idea what order they are in, but when I click recent or popular, I get the most recent or popular links for the whole site.

I've never used delicious that way. I use it strictly for organizing the stuff I like and don't want to forget where it is. I could use it for more, but I've just never bothered. I suppose I should read the FAQ, but, honestly, it never would have occurred to me to read an FAQ to get answers to changes being made to the site. I would have expected a mass e-mailing to go out and say "here's what were doing, be prepared." FAQs are for new users, in my mind, not people who've been around the block with the old site for some time.

I use it just like Sophia, with the exception of a long-neglected page where I mostly save recipes. I have half a dozen "Recent ___ tags" bookmarked on my phone and they are 99% of my Delicious use.

I actually have the "recent" pages bookmarked on my phone, too. It is what I do while I commute.

Me too. Recent is how I find stuff.

FAQs are for new users, in my mind, not people who've been around the block with the old site for some time.

In my head, as a site developer, FAQs are for people with questions. And new questions come up as time passes and things change. Especially when they change a lot.

I would probably not have read a mass mailing in any detail. Not unless they sent it after I'd seen the site redesign, in which case lots of people would already be mad.

I can't really complain level-headedly, because it seems like the way I use the site is not how I will be able to use the site in the future

Then absolutely say that! Or how will they know? They have a setup to receive migration, feedback, and complaints. And if there is another way to accomplish that, who better to tell you?

I'm biased, obviously, because I develop sites, but it's so much easier when people come to you with what's wrong with the site than when they discuss it somewhere else. Most site hosts want their site to work for their public. Sure, not everyone will get their own perfect Delicious, but if you don't tell them what it is...

What I'm missing most right now is the tag fill-in function. I used to start to type "recipes," for example, and all of my tags that recipes:TYPES came up and I could choose one. Now I have to ... actually remember my own tags.

The whole "/" problem in tags is my main concern. Because I mostly use Delicious for fic (and recipes), and most my fic reading is based on pairs within a fandom. Watching the wailing and rending of hair play out on my flist this morning has been quite the experience. Some people used a lot of features such as tag bundles as major organizational tools, and apparently those have been hosed.

As someone who hopes to continue using Delicious, please, for the love of god, wail and rend at the developers and customer service people.

I'm planning to. I just have to figure out how to explain what's not working for me, because I'm not very knowledgeable about some of the coding terms (i.e. what stuff I liked was actually called).