The Delicious Black Box Help Page
The Delicious Black Box is an ever growing list of popular web pages from delicious.com. At the top of every page in the list there is an easy to use navigation system designed to help you get to a variety of different spots on the list.
Here is the navigation system with an explanation of what each part does below.
TOP 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Days Ago Last Week Last Month
We’ve tried to make the navigation as intuitive as possible but just to be certain below is a description of how each item works.
TOP
The easiest way to use the DBB is to start at the top, where the newest links come in and work your way down the list. From the bottom of the list there is a handy pagination allowing you go to the next page or jump forwards or backwards a few pages.
Clicking on the Top link from anywhere in the DBB list will go back to the very top, or beginning, of the list.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Day Ago
Click on any number to go that many days back in the list. For example if you were looking at the list on Tuesday, clicking 3 Days Ago would go back to last Saturday or 3 Days back in the list.
Clicking any of the days from ‘1 to 5 Days Ago’ will go back that many days based on the current date. Clicking ‘2 Days Ago’ then ‘5 Days ago’ will not go back 7 days. You’ll only go back 5 days or 2 days from the current date.
The ‘1 to 5 Days Ago’ links can be used from any page you’re on without having to be on the first page of the Delicious Black Box.
Last Week
Clicking on ‘Last Week’ will work the same as the ‘1 to 5 Days Ago’ links but instead will go back 7 days from the top of the list based on the current date.
For example, if you’re looking at the list on Friday, clicking ‘Last Week’ will go back 7 days to the previous Friday.
Last Month
Last Month is the same as Last Week and 1 to 5 Days Ago but instead will go back to the beginning of the previous month from the top of the list based on the current date.
For example, if you’re looking at the list in August and click ‘Last Month’ you will go back to the beginning of July.
How the list works.
Every few hours new links are added to the Delicious Black Box. Each new group of new links is marked by a colored title bar that tells you how long ago the links were added.
The time in the title bar is there to let you know how old or new the links are.
From time to time you may see duplicate links appearing in newly added that are also in previously added links. This happens because some links from the current group are still in the Delicious Hotlist when we add a new group of links.
We have plans to deal with this in the near future but for now we don’t see it as a problem and figure it’s better to have duplicates instead of missing out on some of the links coming in from del.icio.us.
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