I started using ma.gnolia.com several months ago, as I realized that my Firefox bookmarks.html creeps close to 2MB, out of which I regularly use about 50. Rest is just nice to save. I went through several online bookmark managers and chose the flowery site because it has a nice interface and it works just fine. The Mini Ma.rker that you use to add new bookmarks is nicely done.
Apart from the fact that I much too often see this:
If you can point me to the save button, you’re my hero. Clicking on input box and hitting Enter key does the job, but that’s not the point. And this happens after quite a while:
1.42min to get that shit of the screen? 231kB for a popup that should open instantly and allow quick bookmark save? Note, I have 512kbps ADSL connection
I really dig the interface. Really. But it wears off after a while and I just want to use the app. If you can’t rewrite it to be smaller, remove it completely. It does not matter that it looks like a glitch in the cache system – it would not even be a possibility of the glitch if it was simpler.
prototype.js, script.aculo.us & co. – nice and dandy and all, but please ditch it. It’s over-bloated I-want-to-be-everything-for-everyone library that long ago went past the point of being usable for a public website.
Hi Aleksandar… We’ve been doing the exact same profiling tests as you have and your right on the money. Within the week, we’re going release a new version of the bookmarklet that gets rid of all of the cruft.
I was looking forward to making a skip from delicious to magnolia (my god what a dumb name, not to mention the URI) simply because I have managed to make such a mess in my delicious that I can’t find anything without using the search engine, I have so many tags they are pretty much useless.
Now that you wrote this little review, I am having second thoughts. One other reason I want to ditch delicious is because of the “heavy” and slow loading Fx extension for “fast” bookmarking.
On a side note — I usually use bookmarks in Fx only for most important bookmarks, and I regularly backup up those with Foxmarks (extension).
Larry, that’s great news, really looking forward to it.
Dragan, as you can see, future looks better :) — I’ll write again about it once changes are rolled out and I use them for several days.
Larry — I hope you still follow this — one more thing about the bookmarklet: few times it happened that it opened with user/pass form (probably cookie expired). The trouble is, once I login, the input data (URL, description) are lost, thus I need to close/re-open or type them manually.
Bookmarklet should remember those data and once I’m logged in, display them.
Yeah, I’ve noticed the same thing with Ma.gnolia, and give that a +1 to add to the bug list.