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

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Post by attentive »

freedomben wrote: post #32
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-...

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed, and what I've been looking for for years! Open source, lightweight, and stable.

xBrowserSync is another one.

You can use https://github.com/ishani/xSyn for self-hosting.

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

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Post by lannisterstark »

attentive wrote: post #59
lannisterstark wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Don't most browsers do this automatically WITHOUT a third party app? Firefox and Chrome both sync bookmarks across devices. What is the usecase for a third party bookmark syncer in that case?

Shiori acts both as an archiver as well as bookmark saver. My bookmarks are ...cluttered otherwise. I have a OneTab page with over 37000 'tabs' saved.

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

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Post by artisin »

ecliptik wrote: post #57
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.

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…

Similar story, getting ArchiveBox setup and running was a breeze, but everything after that was kinda rough. For one, ArchiveBox doesn't have a proper API, so I had to rig one up with Puppeteer. And then there's YaCY. On paper, it seemed like the dream tool for indexing and making a searchable bookmark collection. But in reality, it was a whole lot of work followed by a whole lot of disappointment.

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

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Post by danShumway »

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-...

Genuine question, not trying to bash the project -- the link here seems to really stress that floccus is just for syncing, but can't you just use Firefox Sync for that?

I already have the ability to send my tabs across devices or sync bookmarks, it's built right into Firefox. The UI could be better, but it doesn't look like Floccus changes the browser UI, which is my primary complaint with Firefox bookmarks.

I'm not sure what I'm missing.

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

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Post by stavros »

Just a bit of advice: You wrote a sentence about what the service does, and a large paragraph on what it was built on. When you're pitching your service, tell people what's different about your service, why it's better, why they'll want to use it, etc.

I understand that HN tends to be more technical, but the technical details can be a single link. Right now, all I know about your project is that it's a bookmark manager and S3 is better for storing files than the filesystem.

Good luck!

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

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Post by kornhole »

__jonas wrote: post #27
kornhole wrote: post #26

This looks slick. Because archive.org is getting a little problematic by not allowing more sites to be archived, decentralized archiving is becoming more important. I have been using archive box on my server. It does not have the collaboration features, but that is what my fediverse instances and other collaboration tools provide.

> Because archive.org is getting a little problematic by not allowing more sites to be archived I haven't heard anything about this, could you elaborate or link to some article?

I am sorry that details escape my memory at this point, but I have seen a couple instances recently where journalists tried to archive news stories and were served a response that someone has barred articles from this site from being archived. There is also no guarantee that something once archived there will not be removed when they are put under pressure or terms of service change.

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

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Post by lexlash »

kornhole wrote: post #69
__jonas wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Because archive.org is getting a little problematic by not allowing more sites to be archived I haven't heard anything about this, could you elaborate or link to some article?

I am sorry that details escape my memory at this point, but I have seen a couple instances recently where journalists tried to archive news stories and were served a response that someone has barred articles from this site from being archived. There is also no guarantee that something once archived there will not be removed when they are put under pressure or terms of service change.

So at one point the answer was robots.txt and now it's not: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea... - that information appears to be current - email info@archive.org and request removal is the process, which some "reputation management" firms talk about. Weirdly I can't find much info.

Furthermore, I don't think archive.org tries to hide/obfuscate their user agent so it's relatively easy to block them - I know that it's possible to manually upload stuff to archive.org, and there are other sources (partnerships with Cloudflare and Brave, at a minimum) but that's not as easy as the Wayback Machine.

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