del.icio.us has been down for the past two days and while, given my line of work, i can certainly sympathize with server problems due to a power outage, the people down-playing it because it's free service are getting on my nerves.
yes, the service is free in terms of me not having to pay money to use it, but without me spending my time importing and tagging my bookmarks and using it on a daily basis, the site would not exist (figuratively speaking). without the 300,000 users of this free service adding more than 10 million links to it, there would be nothing to sell to yahoo for a rumored $10M-$15M.
so yes, obviously i am able to get by with adding new bookmarks to my browser until the site comes back up, but it's what i've already put in there that i need. if i didn't need it, i wouldn't have spent my time adding and tagging my links to the site in the first place.
others are saying, "just search for it again" if i need to find the link. if it was easily findable by searching or had a memorable url, i probably wouldn't have spent the time tagging it anyway. i spend time finding a site and i add it to del.icio.us so i don't have to spend that time again in the future. that's the whole point of the site; adding simple tags to complicated urls.
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