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		<title>Delicious 2.0 readability issues &amp; tweaks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new version of social bookmarking site Delicious launched last week and overall I&#8217;m impressed. Search is snappier, the design is slicker and they didn&#8217;t ruin it by taking out nerdy features like tag intersections. Delicious and Wikipedia are the only two sites that give Google a run for their money for search for me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new version of social bookmarking site <a href="http://delicious.com/">Delicious</a> launched last week and overall I&#8217;m impressed. Search is snappier, the design is slicker and they didn&#8217;t ruin it by taking out nerdy features like tag intersections. Delicious and Wikipedia are the only two sites that give Google a run for their money for search for me so I&#8217;m happy to see it treated well.</p>
<p>That being said, there were a few UI decisions I didn&#8217;t care for and have created a <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30916">Greasemonkey script</a> to fix. Here&#8217;s the before:</p>
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<p>And here&#8217;s Delicious with my tweaks:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bradsucks.net/images/31e4cbc16cda_BF08/delicious20after.jpg" target="_blank"><img title="delicious20-after" height="398" alt="delicious20-after" src="http://www.bradsucks.net/images/31e4cbc16cda_BF08/delicious20after_thumb.jpg" width="450" border="0" /></a> </p>
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<p>My changes are:</p>
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<li><strong>I bolded the link titles.</strong> I found them too hard to skim, which is largely what I do on Delicious.</li>
<li><strong>I turned the link URLs a light grey.</strong> For some reason the URLs were the easiest part to read for me and also just about the least important information.</li>
<li><strong>I coloured visited links purple.</strong> At least to my eyes, visited links on the new Delicious are only the slightest bit fainter than the regular colour. This makes it hard to know at a glance which links you&#8217;ve already visited, which is a pain especially when you&#8217;re searching.</li>
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<p>There are a few other changes I&#8217;d love to make, but my Greasemonkey skills are not the strongest:</p>
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<li><strong>Tags should be moved to the left.</strong> They&#8217;re the third most useful information to me (after titles and a description â€“ which often isn&#8217;t there), but your eye has to travel to the right to see them.</li>
<li><strong>Make the link counts easier to skim.</strong> The shades of blue they use for say, numbers 17 and 794 are barely different from each other. When I&#8217;m searching, I want to quickly know what the most popular links are. </li>
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<p>I may get used to these issues, I&#8217;m a pretty fussy dude. But it&#8217;s been a few days and I still find they slow me down. Anyway, it&#8217;s still a good redesign and congratulations to the team for transitioning to it smoothly. There was no downtime that I noticed and the new site hasn&#8217;t lost any functionality that I enjoyed before. Good stuff!</p>
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