"Simon Willison's Weblog" on the redesigned Delicious. The new search feature is extremely impressive; I can see myself coming here before hitting Google for some things. I’m not too keen on the way they’re adding ’www’ to the beginning of my URL when they display it though.
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Strange about the "www." At first I thought it was automatic, as to most non-technical people "www." means "this is a web address." But check out my also non-www URL. No "www." appended.
Going to your non-www md5()'d permalink still shows "www." Going to my yes-www md5()'s permalink still shows no "www." So at some point in time they made a yes-www/no-www decision for each of our domains and is standing by that.
It must be based on how people have entered it. Someone must have entered it with 'www.' and condemned you to suffer it for all eternity on Delicious.
Better behavior would be for them to follow the 301 redirect and save the resulting URL.
You might even call their approach canonuckleheaded, but -- oh eff it, I've gone too far!
You should make an actual www subdomain, with a message on it... and of course, a manual link to the actual content the visiter was probably expecting to find. I used to do that, and now I think I'm going to start doing it again. I find too many places add "www." to my domain name and people will even link it that way. Only way to stop that nonsense is to just force them to see the difference between www and no-www.
I like your solution, Devon.
A lot of people still think this an important part of a URL, while ignoring the protocol. It is a terrible misconception, as almost all sites are configured to work without it and only support www directly or through a redirect for legacy purposes. It seems odd that a Web 2.0 service would be so archaic in this situation, and I hope they change this.
I'd already been an occasional user of delicious as a search engine. It's been useful for me when the Google page-rank system doesn't understand a page is being elliptical, humourous or ironic -- in which case tags applied by readers are more useful. The one problem I had, though, was that delicious searches used to be painfully slow. It seems much more acceptable now though.