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Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#41

Not to diminish the effort here, but I just want to point out (as someone who has tried lots of bookmark managers) that Floccus is everything I want from a bookmark manager (effortless sync across devices and just using the bookmark manager in your browser). I am pointing this out, because I wish someone would have pointed it out to me. https://j11g.com/2023/03/04/floccus-is-the-bookmark-manager-...

Another reason why Safari shouldn't be considered a user friendly browser.

Is this simply because the bookmark manager linked (Floccus) is not available for Safari?

Or better yet, can you elaborate on how any of the content up the chain from your comment that shows why Safari shouldn't be considered a user friendly browser?

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#42
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another reason why Safari shouldn't be considered a user friendly browser.

Which reason are you referring to?

The fact that you can't use this extension (amongst many others) with Safari - therefore Safari on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS cannot benefit from this type of sharing. Walled garden strikes again.

I'm not saying that Safari is a bad browser, but artificial limitations imposed by Apple on the browser and the OS is quite frustrating for me.

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#43
This looks really nice, great work. I'll definitely give it a try.

Have you considered a free tier where you could monetize it maybe via sponsorships/ads with the goal to have a social aspect?

I'm a huge fan of Githubs social trending/explore/lists/topics section for finding new tools for specific things that I work on, rust, go, aws, etc. for myself and my teams. Also things like dev.to, daily.dev, etc but they're not really as useful as I thought they'd be. You can see an example of the Lists I've created here https://github.com/mikejk8s?tab=stars - I wind up putting these lists into a team notion doc right now.

There's those "Awesome-XXYZ" lists but I don't think they're the best way to do this at all. They also wind up very out of date. My Github lists aren't collaborative, I can't give people a way to contribute to them and as far as I know they're not something you can search globally to find if someone has some interesting lists.

It's quite a bit different than what you're doing here but what I've been hoping to find was some sort of technology Looking Glass/aggregator where I could click a topic/Collection, say Rust, and see rss feeds, blogs, curated and very well organized bookmarks, hashtags of other related lists, etc in a collaborative manner with lots of contributors.

I was sort-of beginning to do this via a published notion domain and treating it like a wiki.. https://mrj84.notion.site/Go-Wiki-c637ff57e00046bfbe22fb2562... - that's the closest I've been able to brain storm as something remotely near what I'm aiming for.

Sorry for the long post, maybe it'll give you some ideas or maybe someone has some ideas for me.

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#44

Not to diminish the effort here, but I just want to point out (as someone who has tried lots of bookmark managers) that Floccus is everything I want from a bookmark manager (effortless sync across devices and just using the bookmark manager in your browser). I am pointing this out, because I wish someone would have pointed it out to me. https://j11g.com/2023/03/04/floccus-is-the-bookmark-manager-...

"collaborative" is the key feature that Floccus and all other "syncing" bookmark managers are missing.

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#45
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which reason are you referring to?

The fact that you can't use this extension (amongst many others) with Safari - therefore Safari on MacOS and iOS/iPadOS cannot benefit from this type of sharing. Walled garden strikes again. I'm not saying that Safari is a bad browser, but artificial limitations imposed by Apple on the browser and the OS is quite frustrating for me.

Safari supports the same extension standard as the other browsers, they even have a tool to convert extensions into the Safari format. All the bookmarks are also in an sqlite database which you can access, or export them as a file, this is not a case of a wallet garden.

I know because I did just that with my Firefox and Chrome extensions. The only thing that's keeping developers from doing that is that you have to pay the developer fee to publish the extension app, on top of the regular differences between the browsers that you have to take care of if you are building an extension.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#46

Not to diminish the effort here, but I just want to point out (as someone who has tried lots of bookmark managers) that Floccus is everything I want from a bookmark manager (effortless sync across devices and just using the bookmark manager in your browser). I am pointing this out, because I wish someone would have pointed it out to me. https://j11g.com/2023/03/04/floccus-is-the-bookmark-manager-...

Missing features: a good UI for managing and organising bookmarks, automatically archiving bookmarks in case they go offline

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#47

Oof, any time I see next/prisma I already know that my tiny VPS will likely choke building this... So yeah, self-hostable, but not for everyone. Got burned with this by cal.com self-hosted version: https://blog.vasi.li/cal-com-is-making-me-lose-faith-in-the-...

Build it on your own computer, rsync the result to your vps

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#48
I like to save the best / most interesting links I come across as I browse the web. It can come in handy to pull up a blog post I read a while ago or remember some new sass product or developer tool I wanted to check out. I'm using https://raindrop.io now which works great for this.

When I looked into it I was surprised that browsers don't have this kind of bookmark management built-in. I'd be very happy with two small additions to browsers: (1) display by / sort by date added and (2) a small separate freeform text box for notes (so I can describe why I saved the link).

(Optionally it could be nice if browsers adopted some standard sync mechanism for bookmarks, maybe based on WebDAV like the Floccus extension).

Then again, these dedicated external bookmark managers do have nice features like tags, search, and offline downloads or page screenshots. Those are all great!

Linkwarden looks like a nice product. Looks like it would tick all the boxes for my use-case and the design is pleasant. I like that it's open source and has a fair price for the hosted offering. Maybe I'll give it a try!

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#49

I've used Raindrop[1] for the last few years and it works well - cross device support, archived pages, and tags/folders. Going to check out Linkwarden since I really like the idea of being able to self-host something similar since Raindrop could one day disappear (#googlereaderneverforget). A feature Raindrop has is it can export bookmarks to a standard xml file, which I then have a script that automatically adds the…

How has your experience with archivebox after running it for a while? After trying to set it up multiple times I gave it another try a few days ago and it always feels like it's doing too much and is therefore very sluggish and buggy.

I was looking for alternatives but couldn't really find something great with a decent UI and full-text search.

Re: Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another reason why Safari shouldn't be considered a user friendly browser.

People who consider Safari a friendly browser do not look before iCloud and do not look after iCloud. No matter how it behaves/performs. That’s how Apple ecosystem rolls. And the ones who do not consider it a user friendly browser do not use it.

I’m open to an answer to GP’s question but this wasn’t one
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