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All that talk but forgot to say what Yahoo didn't do - show you what you wanted on the first page. You can run circles around it they just weren't good enough. But sure nostalgia is great and bringing delicious back will be amazinggggg
Who shows you what you want on the first page? Facebook shows you what they want. If you don't have an ad blocker Google shows you what they are paid most to show. Amazon the same.
A bookmarking service combined with user friendly archival website or a user friendly IPFS is the way to go.
I know there is the Wayback Machine but it takes so long to load an URL that the user experience suffers.
Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser. But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was ther…
I would go one step further and say that the problem isn't losing URLs but losing content.
I have most of my bookmarks from delicious exported and saved locally now, but most of the links from the 2005-2010 era are now broken and even with something like Pocket or archive.org, it's impossible to find those old blog posts and articles anywhere. These days, I just print things to PDF and save them rather than risking articles get lost over time.
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The tooling has become insanely good, so long as you trust the shoulders of the giants you’re standing on. For example, a month ago the Electron team introduced a bug that made my Microsoft Store app think it was outside the store. The users of my app were not happy - so I looked into how I could test the app “in the store” as a beta ... it’s basically an exercise in frustration. Package flights are a joke, build num…
I don't have anything to contribute to the greater discussion, but I just wanted to thank you for building your app and sharing a link to it. Making labels isn't something that I often do, but when I have to do it, I need to make a lot of them, and that's always a pain. I'm going to give your solution a try as soon as I get off of work.
I really think a bookmarking service alone is not sufficient for the modern web. The modern web is ripe with linkrot and disappearing websites. A bookmarking service combined with user friendly archival website or a user friendly IPFS is the way to go. I know there is the Wayback Machine but it takes so long to load an URL that the user experience suffers.
This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.
I was so sad when del.icio.us stopped. I wonder if old logins will work - I still remember mine!
Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser. But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was ther…
> Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? I would go one step further and say that the problem isn't losing URLs but losing content. I have most of my bookmarks from delicious exported and saved locally now, but most of the links from the 2005-2010 era are now broken and even with something like Pocket or archive.org, it's impossible to find those old blog posts and art…
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Josh, what are you up to these days? The wikipedia page dedicated to you is out-of-date.
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It's content discovery without any algorithms involved, and only works well on things that have actual URLs (so no dynamically generated "feeds" and so on). Who knows, maybe the world is thirsty for that.
I've been writing a bit about content discovery sans algorithms and I think there is at least some number of people would be interested in it. Social curation is appealing, though I'm not sure how popular a dedicated site for curated link sharing would be. While things like Reddit, Twitter, etc. are not 1 to 1 replacements, I think it serves a similar purpose for a lot of people.