For me the deletion of the support forums is the straw that broke the camel's back. It reeks of pre-emptive damage control--even BEFORE the release I bet they knew they had a stinker on their hands.
Amazing. The Founders of YouTube and yet they seemed to know nothing about proper QA testing, little about proper market research for their new venture, and the wrong damn things about P.R and promotion. Just this statement in their blog is frightening:
"Delicious is in back to beta mode"
Note this isn't referring to some test version of the product running side-by-side with the old service . This is referring to the released version--the ONLY version anyone can access. With no "opt out" choice to retain the old version while the new one is tested (only an "opt in" to get any version of Delicious at all, albeit a badly broken one).
What a bunch of bozos. Total amateur hour.
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