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Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by wyclif » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 10:43 AM UTC

cheald wrote: post #10

pyre wrote: post #9

Looks good. Some nits though: 1. There isn't enough margin on the left side of the page. The text bumps up right against the edge of my browser. I don't know if this is just an oversight due to me smaller screen size (1024x600) or if everyone sees it like that. 2. The main page has horizontal scrolling on my netbook with fullscreen Chromium.

Yeah, I pushed it right up to the edge of the 1024x screen size (forgetting, stupidly, about netbooks). I'll see if I can dial it down a bit. Edit: I reduced it a bit; should fix those issues.

On my 14" laptop display with Chrome maximised I still have a horizontal scrollbar with a bit of scrolling to see the right edge (cuts off the "New Bookmark" link). Still needs some CSS tweakage.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by wyclif » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 10:54 AM UTC

cheald wrote: post #50

Skywing wrote: post #44

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I see you fixed this. :)

Among a lot of other things, yeah. :)

Another feature request: for people like me who imported Delicious tags and thus have a lot of them, a tag cloud would be nice, I prefer it to a long scrolling list of tags.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by AndrewDucker » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:40 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #2

After spending some time last night bemoaning Delicious' impending demise, I decided to just write my own stand-in. So I put in a few extra hours last night and banged this out. It's running on a free Heroku instance with a $5 MongoHQ DB backing it, so I fully expect it to explode if it gets any appreciable attention, but I'm pretty proud of it for an evening project and wanted to share. Thanks to HNer mslagh for the…

Are you planning on doing RSS feeds for each page? They're pretty vital for reposting to other sites.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by bradmccarty » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 2:22 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #57

bradmccarty wrote: post #56

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Oops? :)

Better a hobby project than a startup I'm betting the farm on, eh? :)

Absolutely. I mean, I get a certain, sick satisfaction from melting servers, no matter the size.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by softbuilder » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 6:53 PM UTC

A friend recently launched http://mybucket.co/ It could use some L&F finesse but it's a pretty nice system. And it'll import from delicious.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #63

cheald wrote: post #2

After spending some time last night bemoaning Delicious' impending demise, I decided to just write my own stand-in. So I put in a few extra hours last night and banged this out. It's running on a free Heroku instance with a $5 MongoHQ DB backing it, so I fully expect it to explode if it gets any appreciable attention, but I'm pretty proud of it for an evening project and wanted to share. Thanks to HNer mslagh for the…

Are you planning on doing RSS feeds for each page? They're pretty vital for reposting to other sites.

Yeah, RSS and JSON views are on the shortlist.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 7:19 PM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #60

That's definitely the can-do, spontaneous hacker spirit! But aren't there already like 90 delicious clones out there?

Probably. I didn't write it with the intent to submit it to YC or anything. I just wanted my own Delicious, and then wanted to show it off. :)

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by joshuarr » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 8:23 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #34

joshuarr wrote: post #26

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I'd mention that fact on the landing page. It seems more important than the domain name stuff (which I'd remove, personally). It may be also a good idea to let people import their bookmarks and then make an account. Edit: I see now that in the But... section you mention the import thing. I'd rewrite your main headings to be more persuasive. If one just reads the titles and the first paragraph then one misses the impo…

Good point.

Nice resolution - helps a lot imo.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 10:53 PM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #62

cheald wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Among a lot of other things, yeah. :)

Another feature request: for people like me who imported Delicious tags and thus have a lot of them, a tag cloud would be nice, I prefer it to a long scrolling list of tags.

That's fair. I'll see if I can whip one up.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sun, Dec 19, 2010, 4:28 PM UTC

shallowwater wrote: post #46

this looks pretty great, but I have to be a total dick here for a minute and ask. Is there an exporter? Given the current climate, I think it is at least a little bit reasonable to ask.

There is now an exporter, both in netscape bookmark format and json :)