…what you like and don’t like about them. If you want to share, go answer their survey. As a loyal long-time user I just did it, it only takes about 2 minutes.

It seems like del.icio.us is at a crucial juncture right now. They have a loyal user base and a ton of data, but the web site feels clunkier by the day. Not because it’s actually getting worse, but because it’s not getting any better. A better design for presentation and navigation is desperately needed. del.icio.us director makes the site a bit more usable, but I can’t help but wonder why the core team hasn’t tried to do even better than that.

As it stands, I use del.icio.us every day through the excellent Firefox extension, but I barely ever visit the site. It simply doesn’t help me very much to do so. Yahoo or no Yahoo, I’d love to see del.icio.us regain their cutting edge. I mean, they almost single-handedly made tags the killer app of Web 2.0.

Read more about the thoughts of the del.icio.us team on overdue New Year's resolutions.