Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#472I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…
I really liked this setup. The only point of friction for me was adding the links to the index via the crawler everytime. So I created a Firefox Extenstion to do it directly from the address-bar.
If someone is interested, you can download it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yacy-it/
Limitation: It currently supports only YaCy running on localhost and unprotected. You might have to configure CORS as outlined here -> https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it#configuring-yacy
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#473I will self promote as it’s one of the main use cases of Boomerang. It’s a minimal mail to self app for iOS and Android with share extension to bookmark website in one click. Emails are super convenient because you consult them everyday so your links doesn’t get lost in an app. https://boomerang-app.io
This is cool. I started using your app after reading about it here a few days ago. I guess you want to keep it as simple as possible, but have you considered adding the option to edit the email before it gets sent?
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love something similar to automatically crawl and index every site I visit. I'm forever losing stuff. I know I saw it but I can't remember where.
Use the yacy-proxy funktion.
I had trouble with that, I ended up using this userscript https://github.com/JeremyRand/YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey
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that's some expensive ass coffee considering i buy a bag for less than that and use it for a week or two, making tens of cups
You are not Starbucks’ market.
who the fuck is starbucks' market if a daily coffee costs over $2000 each year (assuming you do a 5-day workweek and throwing two months off the year to account for days when you don't get morning coffee from starbucks)
you have to be swimming in money
that makes me doubt that anyone would pay more than $2-4 and even that's overpriced as hell
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
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Exactly, I hate the idea that software has to be constantly updated. That's how we end up with so many bloated messes that started out simple ( cough dropbox cough ). Pinboard is simple, and for my needs at least, perfect. If he kept it in maintenance mode forever, I'd be fine with that.
Ah yes, this is why Hackernews is now abandonware. /s
HN has a full time maintainer @dang. And HN hasn’t started failing at its basic tasks like posting or commenting.
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#477Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?
Part of it is definitely that Pinboard as a service (feels to be at least) is in "maintenance mode" with minimal support. But what new features does a bookmarking service need? Part of it is also that tech bros are upset that Maciej didn't go full-coinbase and is instead pretty active socially/politically. I'm happy to keep using it and paying for it. Works fine for my needs.
I am not a techbro (not from a tech field) and I don’t want new features, only that the ones it has not stop working. Especially when I am paying for it.
Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#478Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
#479I use Google Keep. It's amazing. It's one of those side tabs on GMail that you close when you first start a new account and never look at again. I use the web and iOS version (through "share") half a dozen times a day. https://keep.google.com/
I used to use Keep. But have switched to pinboard for the last 8 months and incredibly happy about it. Just don't want to wake up one morning and see Google is shutting it down and go through all the hassle that comes with it.
"I don't want to use it because Google is going to shut it down" is HN's version of Twitter/Reddit's "Sir, this is a Wendy's". Here's some more pablum: "We can do better."