Ma.gnolia -> del.icio.us

ByeBye Ma.gnolia. It was a good start but that's all it was for me. I've now gone back to del.icio.us for my daily social bookmarking. For my taste the interface on Ma.gnolia is simply too cramped with adverticing and meta information which makes the whole site way too slow for normal use. Also the post-form's tag-autocompletion is in my opinion hardly usable.

So now I'm back with the service that started it all and all I'm really missing is the group-feature which I wanted to use but no one wanted to join me OK, for example the ruby-group is nice, but you can do the same thing with tags.

So yesterday I wrote a small script to first of all give me a list of all the bookmarks that I had in my Ma.gnolia repository but that were missing on del.icio.us. I won't post the script here for now because I guess it was quite close to the terms of use for the del.icio.us API. I throttled it down to one call every 2 seconds but anyway

So I will just post some problems I came across that are all basically difference between the export file of del.icio.us and the one of Ma.gnolia.