Pinboard Slash Fandom

Apparently, Delicious (née del.icio.us) was awfully popular with fandom types, especially the ones who enjoy slash fiction.

So, when the men who invented YouTube completely and utterly ruined the once-great service, breaking tags with a / in them in the process, the fandom people jumped ship–no pun intended–to Pinboard, a superior bookmarking service.

Next, the fandom people set up a Google Doc so they could collaborate on feature requests. Maciej, the bloke who made Pinboard, joined in, answering questions and offering tips.

Impressed, one of the fandom people wrote a piece of slash fiction about an anthropomorphised Pinboard lothario shagging an anthropomorphised fandom community, making an anthropomorphised Delicious jealous. Amazing.

This is such a perfect storm of arcane web culture, pervy strangeness and general nerdery that I almost don’t care that Pinboard’s ‘popular’ page is now completely swamped with links to cringeworthy short stories about, I dunno, Dumbledore inappropriately touching Wesley Crusher.