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Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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Poor naming, in my opinion. Don't be surprised to receive a letter from LinkedIn's legal team. I suggest renaming the project ASAP to avoid any potential trademark-related issues.

That's pretty ridiculous. If Microsoft complained about this I would lose a lot of respect for them. This doesn't threaten linked in whatsoever. What other names can't be used because linked in exists? The possibilities are endless.

Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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post #6

Not a fan of the name. I read it as linked in, thinking it was a bookmark service by linked in at first. Perhaps, the counter positive, dinkling.

I'm sorry about the confusion, it definitely wasn't my intention to bounce off the LinkedIn brand to promote this. As explained in the README, it's really just a cute name, especially in german.

I like your suggestion too, but I would hold off from renaming unless I can say with certainty that it is a common issue.

Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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post #9

Poor naming, in my opinion. Don't be surprised to receive a letter from LinkedIn's legal team. I suggest renaming the project ASAP to avoid any potential trademark-related issues.

Sorry, it was not my intention to bounce off the LinkedIn brand. Also I have no plans to build a product or brand out of this. Thanks for your warning, but with the information I currently have following up on it seems a bit extreme.

Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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post #6

Not a fan of the name. I read it as linked in, thinking it was a bookmark service by linked in at first. Perhaps, the counter positive, dinkling.

I'm sorry about the confusion, it definitely wasn't my intention to bounce off the LinkedIn brand to promote this. As explained in the README, it's really just a cute name, especially in german. I like your suggestion too, but I would hold off from renaming unless I can say with certainty that it is a common issue.

linkding is a fun and cute name. Please don't change it!

Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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post #5

This looks very nice! It’s not mentioned in the README, so I’m wondering how persistence is handled? EDIT: To be clear, I see backups is mentioned, but I’m wondering if it’s a database file like sqlite3 or something else.

Yes, currently it uses a SQLite3 DB for storage. The DB is created or updated with Djangos migrate command which runs when the Docker container starts. The DB file can be found in the data folder. Thanks for your comment, it made me realize I stopped thinking about persistence at some point and now I had to look up on SQLite usage in production. However for the apps current use-case of handling one account / one pers…

SQLite is a great choice for a project like this. Particularly for a project like this, dealing with something as intimate as bookmarks, it's nice to not have to worry about how I'd get my data out of it should I ever decide to stop using the software. That provides some nice peace of mind.

Incidentally Firefox also uses SQLite for storing bookmarks (among other things.)

Re: Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

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Linkding is a very lean bookmark service that provides bookmark management, tag categorization and search. It is built to be self-hosted and runs perfectly fine on a Raspberry Pi. It also provides an import/export function that is compatible with other services like Pinboard.in. After using Pinboard.in for several years I noticed that I basically only ever use the features described above. Also while I like the minim…

Nice project! But can as well provide a dummy account in the demo because it's damn difficult to register for anything on my phone (especially with complicated password rules)
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