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

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Post by lannisterstark »

janvdberg wrote: post #24

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-...

eeeeh.

Shiori looks like it'd work infinitely better compared to floccus. It has an extension, tags, and everything is stored in a central repository you can visit from web (or server itself) any time you want. It also archives your bookmarks. It has been working flawlessly for me for a couple of years now.

https://github.com/go-shiori

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

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Post by johnnyworker »

gooob wrote: post #39
janvdberg wrote: post #24

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-...

doesn't look like i can use my own server with floccus

If you have a WebDAV server, you can use that.

I use several browser profiles (stuff like social, entertainment, dev), and now I can put the usual sites I visit with each of those in the top level of the their bookmark bar directly, but also have a single folder for the ones I want to share between all of them, yay! I am very happy right now. Thanks GP.

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

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Post by hk1337 »

janvdberg wrote: post #24

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-...

I ended up just creating a page in Notion and imported a CSV file.

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

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Post by Tomte »

dewey wrote: post #49
ecliptik wrote: post #33

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.

I’ve tried Archivebox (using docker compose) several times, and every single time it just stops.

I import around 3k bookmarks, it starts archiving them. Immediately some archival methods fail (usually screenshot and pdf), and after archiving a few hundred bookmarks it never continues to archive the rest. I‘ve let it sit and do its thing for several days, it never manages to get through all of them (or even a sizable minority).

Different machines, different filesystems, different networks. No idea what‘s wrong.

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

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Post by dewey »

Tomte wrote: post #55
dewey wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve tried Archivebox (using docker compose) several times, and every single time it just stops. I import around 3k bookmarks, it starts archiving them. Immediately some archival methods fail (usually screenshot and pdf), and after archiving a few hundred bookmarks it never continues to archive the rest. I‘ve let it sit and do its thing for several days, it never manages to get through all of them (or even a sizable…

I’m glad to read that as it confirms my experiences too. Seeing that it is also not that actively maintained I even started writing a similar thing myself as I really only need a small subset of the functionality.

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

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Post by ecliptik »

dewey wrote: post #49
ecliptik wrote: post #33

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.

It isn't horrible. I have it running in a docker-compose stack and after initial setup I haven't really thought about it other than checking the Raindrop script I have is still populating it.

I don't really use it interactively, it's more to have a "backup" of websites I find useful after finding some I used to reference for years disappeared and were never added to archive.org or occasionally sending the Readability/PDF versions to my Kindle.

I also setup YaCY[1] at one point with the idea of having my own local personal search engine for the archived sites, but I ended up never using it.

1. https://github.com/yacy

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

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Post by jhot »

pratio wrote: post #2

I'll definitely give it a short this weekend. Are there any plans to support different authentication methods? Like LDAP, OAuth2 etc? I'm using linkding at the moment https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding which also has a browser addon, the only missing thing is some form central user auth but we're using it as it is.

Linkding does support header auth if your provider supports that (I run authelia backed by ldap).

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

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Post by attentive »

lannisterstark wrote: post #51
janvdberg wrote: post #24

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-...

eeeeh. Shiori looks like it'd work infinitely better compared to floccus. It has an extension, tags, and everything is stored in a central repository you can visit from web (or server itself) any time you want. It also archives your bookmarks. It has been working flawlessly for me for a couple of years now. https://github.com/go-shiori

That looks like a web app, not an actual browser bookmark sync.

Apples and oranges.

There is a value in using native browser bookmarks and syncing them cross browsers/OS's.

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

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Post by attentive »

dewey wrote: post #45
slivanes wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pa…

That's all great but neither this nor www.xbrowsersync.org supports Safari.

That's the reason I don't use Safari beyond random superficial browsing.

Here is what xBrowserSync has to say about it:

"Will xBrowserSync support Safari?

No and it is extremely unlikely this will ever happen due to Apple moving away from the WebExtensions API and forcing developers to purchase Apple hardware and pay $99/year to develop on their platform."

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