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That was a long time ago. It has changed hands several times since then.
I used to love delicious. I loved seeing who bookmarked the same thing and following them for more similar content.
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
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If you upvote a post you can access then later by clicking on "saved stories" in your profile page. There is a "saved comments" too.
I wrote a script to export them: https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON
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I've been using https://pinboard.in for years and can't recommend it enough - it's brilliant.
I'm a/was fan of Maciej and the 'fight' he's fighting, and signed up for the full-archiving solution (that indexes saved pages) in part because of this. So far I'm rather disappointed in the whole thing. For some reason I get an error message when I try to do a full-text search, and I've 1) approached the pinboard twitter account, 2) sent two emails to support spaced > 1 week apart, and 3) asked multiple times in the…
I'll fix this and credit you for a year due to the fact that you had to come to HN for actual support. The underlying issue is sometimes I burn out and flee to the woods/southern ocean for a while. But my bad work habits shouldn't be your problem.
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
Heh, bookmarks do not help. I am a compulsory bookmarker, but i suck at finding stuff i have bookmarked maybe a month ago...
File them into other Bookmark folders if needed, but go through them. You'll notice 1 or 2 (or more) gems that you need to get to, some more you forgot about, but are definitely important, and you'll delete/re-organize any that aren't that important any more (but you thought might be).
I think bookmarks are gold for my scatter brained multi-device using personality.
I have years of helpful bookmarks that stand the test of any computer outage, all easily accessible from any chrome browser i log into.
When i die my kids will be able to access my bookmarks giving them an advantage of getting some finely curated knowledge articles spanning a lifetime from someone they trust.
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Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.
Chrome? Not exactly what you're asking for but, seriously, if you sign-in to the browser you can access the same history and bookmarks on Android, Linux (desktop), Win, Mac OSX, etc. Firefox Sync seems to offer the same sort of thing.
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
Good point. Does anyone have a good web based bookmark tool? I hop between a dozen machines on different networks so keeping bookmarks is kind of tedious.
It's got some positives and negatives, though I'm fairly impressed so far (this is rare, so that alone is high praise).
1. Tags. Lots and lots of tags. It doesn't tell me how man I've got, though >1,000 wouldn't surprise me. I tend to organise stuff heavily.
2. Title, tag, and FULL TEXT search. This alone is a huge win over Readability, which lacked text-based search. The bad news: search appears to be OR rather than AND, meaning that lots of search terms increase rather than narrow search scope. If that's true, it's fucking idiotic. (Ello's search has a similar failure.)
3. Pretty good rendering. Overall the Pocket Android app is far better than the Readability app.
4. Responsive support. I've filed a mass of suggestions through the Pocket web form, plus a few through email. The latter have elicited responses, which is promising. No actual bugs fixed yet, though I'm hoping this will happen.
5. Good presentation defaults. Essentially preferable to ALL default Web design. White, sepia, and night-mode options, with font face and size controls.
6. Active development, support, communications. Readability appears to have entirely ceased public activity as of ~December 2012, with a (fairly annoying) set of feature changes. I suspect it's not long for this world.
What's missing from Pocket:
1. Counts. Count everything, at least on request.
2. User stats. Overviews of article counts, add, archive, read, and delete rates would be helpful.
3. Multi-tag search. My tagging pays off most if I can filter to specific sets of topics. Generally, the tag system wants a lot of UI/UX love.
Some longer comments on how tags might be improved: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/crEFWvoG...
I wish HN had a save post feature similar to Reddit. I'm not really a bookmark guy and this is exactly the kind of site I know would be a life saver some time in the future.
Heh, bookmarks do not help. I am a compulsory bookmarker, but i suck at finding stuff i have bookmarked maybe a month ago...
It's a shame, I've felt wonderful switching to Arch based distributions just due to pacman.