[1][2][3] Yahoo sold Delicious to AVOS Systems in April 2011,[4] and the site relaunched in a "back to beta" state on September 27 that year.

[5] In May 2014, AVOS sold the site to Science Inc.[6] In January 2016 Delicious Media, a new alliance, reported it had assumed control of the service.

[8] Delicious used a non-hierarchical classification system in which users could tag each of their bookmarks with freely chosen index terms (generating a kind of folksonomy).

Users could also explore stacks on the home page by navigating categories such as Arts & Design or Education.

The public aspect was emphasized; the site was not focused on storing private ("not shared") bookmark collections.

[citation needed] Delicious linkrolls, tagrolls, network badges, RSS feeds, and the site's daily blog posting feature could be used to display bookmarks on weblogs.

[11] In March 2005, he left his day job to work on Delicious full-time, and in April 2005 it received approximately $2 million in funding from investors including Union Square Ventures and Amazon.com.

[18] On December 16, 2010, an internal slide from a Yahoo meeting leaked, indicating that Delicious would be "sunsetted" in the future, which seemed to mean "shut down".

[22][23] On April 27, 2011, Delicious announced the site was sold to Avos Systems, a company created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

[31] As of July 15, 2020, Maciej Ceglowski, owner of Pinboard, announced plans to restore the site to a explorable state and allow data export provided users have their login credentials.

This new social feature was considered as a good step against competitor such as Pinterest which did not offer private boards at the time.

[39] In an interview Schachter explained how he chose the name: "I'd registered the domain when .us opened the registry, and a quick test showed me the six letter suffixes that let me generate the most words.

In early discussions, a friend referred to finding good links as 'eating cherries' and the metaphor stuck, I guess.