Momentarily mistook this for https://del.icio.us/, but related only by name.
I miss skeuomorphism. With good UX it makes great UI. It's weird considering I have my head inside a terminal most of the time but I was fond of those UI.
I wonder if formal studies exist that measure things like "discoverbility" or productivity for normal users.
Man, were those GUIs back then good- human, quirky, trying to merge into the memories of the users of the real world. Not the abstract monstrosities towards which all template arts decay too (architecture comes to mind).
I'm actually working on an app to replace my Delicious Library, but at least at first solely focused on books and supporting multiple users and features I missed in the original.
If all goes well I expect to have early version ready by middle of this year. While some features will require subscription, features not incurring ongoing costs won't. I like to think of it as an example of social software for introverts :)
I am hesitant to talk about details, but I haven't felt so excited about something in a long time.
> Sustainable Pricing: A subscription service (I know some people prefer one-time payments, but subscriptions are financially sustainable).
Sustainable for who? Not for the customers...
I made a web delicious-alike many years ago called Beep My Stuff that I happily shut down. No regrets, I hated it.
What I discovered was:
* amazon (at the time) will aggressively shut you down by cutting off the only "viable" access to "barcode to product" data.
* barcode databases cost a lot of money and are full of utter drivel.
* people had absolutely VAST DVD/VHS porn collections that they want to share
* there is more red tape in the US then you expect. As a UK citizen I was shocked by how sclerotic any action is in the US.
* people were and now almost completely have moved to digital "stuff" although I hope that changes.
> Sustainable Pricing: A subscription service (I know some people prefer one-time payments, but subscriptions are financially sustainable).
Managing dozens of subscriptions that drain money out of your wallet every month isn't sustainable for users.
% ls
Sorry, you need to renew your subscription for 'ls'.
Would you like to renew it now? (Yes) _I think it's about time you built it. No better time than now.
ps: your RSS feed is advertised as https://dingyu.me/blog/feed.xml but is in fact https://dingyu.me/feed.xml (I guessed that as I was adding it to my RSS aggregator)
I feel like most people just use the Arr suite of apps to track these things?
I guess not an all in one solution but lots of strong features for libraries. Readarr isn’t great if I’m honest.
Aren't there apps where you just take a picture of your shelves and it identifies and catalogs everything there?
No. The last thing we need is yet another subscription priced data silo roach motel that sequesters your data. Any replacement I would consider will have to be open source with an open database.
https://www.shelf.im/ comes to mind
Yes, please. I always wanted a peer to peer version of it in a way. :P
Delicious Library was the start of a gilded age of Mac shareware focused on style over substance.
> In the past year or so, Mac development had shifted from applications providing new functionality that appeared at the dawn of OS X to applications (and ideas) built around flash and sizzle, with plenty of marketing hype to fuel the fire. his had created something of a toxic atmosphere in the Mac development world. A rift between the old school, with its plain but functional apps, and the new school of flashy but frivolous apps, has developed. ... I dubbed this new school “The Delicious Generation”.
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/the-delicious-gene...
Apple adopted a similar interface for Newsstand on iOS and it seemed to be widely reviled during the pushback against skeuomorphism.