According to the Avos blog, they've fixed RSS and will be restoring bundles, among other things: [link]

I'm still disgruntled, because I think they should have made it clear before they went live what would and wouldn't' work. They also didn't say beforehand that they would be porting over a limited subset of data, which is why everyone is freaking out about lost tags.

Even if they do plan to fix things, I don't think they're doing a very good job sharing data. If I'm on Delicious, I don't see why I have to click over twice to get to the Avos blog where they're sharing information. There should be a link on the front page of Delicious to a post about the conversion. Aside from all the technical problems, they're shit at customer relations.

Oh, I sent in my feedback yesterday evening. I politely pointed out the specific problems the change was causing me.

I kind of feel like we're Delicious' beta testers. Which, eh, free service, I'd probably have volunteered to be one if they'd asked. But it would have been nice to be asked to beta test a version on a sandbox somewhere, rather than logging into the official Delicious and wondering why clicking on over half my tags led to 404s.

I'm afraid my message was in allcaps. I was upset.

And now I'm afraid to sync my Firefox with Delicious, for fear I'll lose the bookmarks I have backed up.

Looking at it on the phone, I really couldn't even see that there was a FAQ. All my phone booksmarks are just 404ing. But I will head over there, and see who I can report things to.

ETA: I did just send feedback. I sent it to the feedback link, not the complain link. It took me awhile to figure out how to get to the contact us (because I had to go to "learn more" first.) I think also I am just overwhelmed by the large pictures on the front page!

So, I hit up the "complain" link, myself. I sent a list of six things I didn't like. I'll share one with you:

3) Not only do I have Kirk/McCoy, but I have Steve/Danny and Kirk/Spock and Chekov/Sulu and who knows how many other tags with a slash mark in them. Are you homophobic? This is a common way of designating slash fan fiction and I can only think you must be homophobic to make it so none of our tags with slash marks in them work.

I expect Delicious is just as homophobic as LJ was when they broke their slash tags. It's a really 101 level programming error (with non-thorough testing) to make (which I've made myself) which has no social ramifications.

I suspect as much, but I wanted to let them know what I'm sure other people are thinking, rightly or wrongly, and there are going to be people who take it wrongly. This plays into their image of the kind of service they are and if people start thinking it's done because of that reason, they may choose to go elsewhere. Just like a lot of folks moved over to Dreamwidth when LJ looked like it was going to shut down all kinds of journals and comms for their content. Whether it's a basic error or not, there's a lot of folks out there who aren't developers who won't know that and are going to assume the worst. I considered it a public service to let them know that.

But your email sounds like you think they're being homophobic, which is going to be taken less seriously than "Hey, you know people are going to think you're homophobic", especially if you (developer-you) really don't care in the least about the gayness of the tags. Which I would expect is the case.

Hell, the gawker redesign doesn't even have slash tagging, but they broke shit with slashes in it. It doesn't make fandom look good to keep running to the conspiracy explanation every time.

I know it is pretty popular to use portmanteau ship names in het. fic circles, but I despise them, and use name/name regardless of respective gender or the slashiness of the pairing. I am not the only one who does that, too. So while it may hit the slash community harder, y'all are not alone. I say this as someone who rarely uses Delicious.

They've already fixed the slash problem, let's hope they get to some of the other stuff just as quickly.