What's wrong with delicious.com?

The recent UI changes of delicious.com is quite confusing and smells suicidal phase. I have noted that, after Joshua Schachter sold it to Yahoo!, it's going crazy changes. Probably, it's because a Yahoo! company now or Engineers don't get the real idea?

Some crazy moves:

del.icio.us to delicious.com change; probably to reach countries that censor .us TLD?

delicious.com to www.delicious.com; unjustified

Perl to PHP switch; why?

for:handle geekish way to share to separate box; crazy but ok. Looks like, the new Yahoo! guys don't know how to make it a cult following like how twitter popularized @handle

Recent broken UI

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