Is this the alpha or early beta?

Mike, I am really concerned about one phrase in your answer to Jonathan. You say that you will not add but that you will take away some features. I hope you are talking about killing the Tag Cloud. The Cloud is a great tool to communicate with my students. Please, do not kill it. It is very useful. Also, probably you should have asked the actual users about the Cloud. Had I been given a chance to talk about BlinkList's most useful features I would have argued that it was, by far, the Tag Cloud. One way or the other you can have plenty of bookmarks in Mozilla or Opera, and you can even synchronize bookmarks across several computers, like Foxmarks. Please do not kill the Tag Cloud... ( Delete or Edit)

Yes, I call it in my public policy class "unrestrained rationality;" the policymaker assumes s/he knows everything there is to know about a policy/law and sooner rather than later reality comes back chasing the policymaker and biting with huge fangs and extremely hungry... ( Delete or Edit)

Well, I think that they are entitled to do as they please with the service. After all it is for free, BUT I do agree that I am getting terribly anxious about the possibility of an downward kind of improvement, specially if the improvement implies losing the Tag Claud which was what originally brought me to BlinkList and away from many other bookmarking/social networking services. I do not know if Mike and his employees are trying to make BlinkList more like other services, but if that is the case I would like to tell them NO!, PLEASE, NO! BlinkList is great because of its uniqueness, because of the Cloud, and the MyList feature. ( Delete or Edit)

I totally agree with you. The concept was great. But then again I always wondered why certain websites as The New York Times, the LA Times, Der Spiegel, El Universal and many other media had choices for Bookmarking that had no space for BlinkList. In Spanish the only media with a BlinkList option was La Nación from Buenos Aires, Argentina. And in English I cannot recall one major newspaper, in the US, or in Britain with the BlinkList option in their pages. Probably that is one of the reason why Mike and his team thought about the changes. Again, my only hope is that they will keep the Tag Cloud and, if possible, the My List feature, so I can keep them in my blogs. ( Delete or Edit)

Well, yes, and I can tell you that Newsvine sucks big time. They blocked me without any explanation. I thought that during the transition period I could use Newsvine as a temporary solution to my anxiety about the future of BlinkList but they are extremely intolerante because I bookmark sites in English BUT also in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. I am pretty sure they think that English is the only valid language on the web, so they kicked me out and they blocked me without any explanation. Moreover, I send them several messages asking just to get a backup of the bookmarks I did in their service and there was never any kind of answer.
Mike, on the other hand, has always been extremely nice both here and in the Google Group and he is very interested in getting BlinkList translated into several languages, so I do admire, respect and appreciate his approach. Moreover the very fact that they are working with us here in this website tells me that he is very respectful of us. I still cannot understand why they introduced or are about to introduce changes that will kill what is best of BlinkList...And I am really anxious about it. I teach in Mexico and I work with students that are not very much into the Internet, so the Tag Cloud was great because it was very graphic and very easy to use... ( Delete or Edit)

It's okay. The beta testing etc. was a debated issue for our team, in the end it was down to limited resources to conduct a proper beta test, and our time to execute on the vision. We really had to push new BlinkList out the door quickly or risk losing it. So no matter the outcome of this launch, we're glad we did what we did—it's been fun and exciting building the new app and we hope it will get some people talking about us positively again (eventually after we sort out the birthing pains). ( Delete or Edit)

We're sorry you feel this away about BlinkList. We hope we might still win you over later after we sort out the initial issues. We appreciate your honest feedback and sentiment. In the mean time if there's anything I can do to help you move on—like exporting your existing bookmarks—do let me know, I'll personally get it sorted out for you. ( Delete or Edit)

Please read Wu's comment to my comment in another post and you will see that I am not overreacting, but that blinklist has made a conscious choice. A one-shot solution that will break or make Blinklist. I fell sorry for them and for the system they have created which was working fine.

I might be wrong, but I doubt that Blinklist will be here a year from now.

Again, too bad. All I have to do is to find another bookmarking site. ( Delete or Edit)

pnaspnas,
Man, take it easy on you. Let them finish the change. I do not know how many free services you know that will take the kind of care to answer all the questions from their clients. I am sure Mike and Wu got the message now about our concerns and our need for certain features in the service. They would need to be pretty stubborn to dismiss our feedback... ( Delete or Edit)