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How to Make Delicious Not Suck
Thu Aug 11 02:16:49 2005 :: Link

A couple of days ago Richard (richlowe) discovered Scuttle. Scuttle is an open clone of Delicious. It has private posts, looks fairly decent, doesn't have a gadzillion dependencies (unlike Rubric), and works reasonably well.

I went ahead and set it up, and made a few changes. And so tasty.pablotron.org was born. Scuttle has an option to import all your old Delicious URLs, but I didn't want to give up on Delicious just yet — I just wanted something that wasn't ass-slow. So I patched Scuttle so users can optionally cross-post to Delicious. I used some of that Pablotron magic, so Delicious-chaining doesn't slow down posting links at all, which makes it much more pleasant than waiting up to a minute for a post to Delicious. I also added an option for users to switch between comma- and space-delimiting for tags when posting new links (Scuttle uses the former and Delicious uses the latter), and fixed the after-post behavior to mirror Delicious (specifically, close the pop-up after a post, and switch the browser back to the original URI after a non-pop-up post).

Anyway, You can see all the changes described above by creating an account on Tasty. Here's all the changes I've made against Scuttle 0.4.1, as individual patches:

I'm sending all of these patches upstream as soon as I finish this post, so hopefully we'll see these in the next release.

Update: I inadvertently broke comma-delimiting. The following patch fixes it (you'll need to apply this one after all of the others scuttle-0.4.1-fix_comma_delim.diff.



Re: How to Make Delicious Not Suck
Fri Aug 12 12:40:44 2005 :: Link :: Posted by jimweirich
Cool! I love the snappy response. Are you planning on making tasty.pablotron.org a service, or just something you are playing with?

Re: How to Make Delicious Not Suck
Sun Aug 14 22:40:47 2005 :: Link

I've started using it for my stuff. I think a couple other people are as well. So it should stay around.


Cool!!
Mon Dec 5 12:16:47 2005 :: Link :: Posted by fcandia
Hi Pablotron!! I'm playing with scuttle..and it's awesome. I gonna start the spanish translation this week. Only I have a question, Do you know how to implement a patch to send the password via email? Because, this is a critical feature in comparision of delicious or surpliciuos. I'll try to figure out how to do it. Anyways..thanks for the good tips!! Flavio

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