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date: "2005-08-11T02:16:49Z"
title: How to Make Delicious Not Suck
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A couple of days ago <a href='http://richlowe.net/'>Richard (richlowe)</a> discovered <a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a>.  <a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a> is an open clone of <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a>.  It has private posts, looks fairly decent, doesn't have a gadzillion dependencies (unlike Rubric), and works reasonably well.
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I went ahead and set it up, and made a few changes.  And so <a href='http://tasty.pablotron.org/'><code>tasty.pablotron.org</code></a> was born.  <a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a> has an option to import all your old <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a> <acronym title='Uniform Resource Locator'>URLs</acronym>, but I didn't want to give up on <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a> just yet &mdash; I just wanted something that wasn't ass-slow.  So I patched <a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a> so users can optionally cross-post to <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a>.  I used some of that <a href='/'>Pablotron</a> magic, so <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a>-chaining doesn't slow down posting links at all, which makes it much more pleasant than waiting up to a minute for a post to <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a>. I also added an option for users to switch between comma- and space-delimiting for tags when posting new links (<a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a> uses the former and <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a> uses the latter), and fixed the after-post behavior to mirror <a href='http://del.icio.us/'>Delicious</a> (specifically, close the pop-up after a post, and switch the browser back to the original URI after a non-pop-up post).
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Anyway, You can see all the changes described above by creating an account on <a href='http://tasty.pablotron.org/'>Tasty</a>.  Here's all the changes I've made against <a href='http://scuttle.org/'>Scuttle</a> 0.4.1, as individual patches:
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<li><a href="/files/scuttle-0.4.1-chain_to_delicious.diff"><code>scuttle-0.4.1-chain_to_delicious.diff</code></a></li>
<li><a href="/files/scuttle-0.4.1-space_delim.diff"><code>scuttle-0.4.1-space_delim.diff</code></a></li>
<li><a href="/files/scuttle-0.4.1-close_popup+go_back.diff"><code>scuttle-0.4.1-close_popup+go_back.diff</code></a></li>
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I'm sending all of these patches upstream as soon as I finish this post, so hopefully we'll see these in the next release.
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<b>Update:</b> I inadvertently broke comma-delimiting.  The following
patch fixes it (you'll need to apply this one after all of the others <a
href='/files/scuttle-0.4.1-fix_comma_delim.diff'><code>scuttle-0.4.1-fix_comma_delim.diff</code></a>.
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