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Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I use Google Keep. It's amazing. It's one of those side tabs on GMail that you close when you first start a new account and never look at again. I use the web and iOS version (through "share") half a dozen times a day. https://keep.google.com/

I used to use Keep. But have switched to pinboard for the last 8 months and incredibly happy about it. Just don't want to wake up one morning and see Google is shutting it down and go through all the hassle that comes with it.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a paying customer, I would not recommend pinboard. Just look at some recent discussions on HN. It has been abandonware for years now.

Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?

Part of it is definitely that Pinboard as a service (feels to be at least) is in "maintenance mode" with minimal support. But what new features does a bookmarking service need?

Part of it is also that tech bros are upset that Maciej didn't go full-coinbase and is instead pretty active socially/politically.

I'm happy to keep using it and paying for it. Works fine for my needs.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

#183

Pinboard is still quite active. If you need proof just go to /recent which is a live firehose and interesting to see what people are bookmarking. I use Pinboard and regularly export my bookmarks incase their servers are hacked/wiped/corrupted.

Paying customer. Really happy with it. None of the other options compare in terms of functionality and minimalism.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I used some of the solutions listed here (like Pocket) for a time. Eventually, I decided I can just post them in my website [1], because why not : that way they are accessible from everywhere, easy to edit, categorize and comment, shareable with anyone in seconds.

[1] https://andirko.eu/wiki/bookmarks

(Edit: typo)

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I'm still using a clone of https://del.icio.us/ that I wrote in 2004 after a fit of pique when it went down for a day or two. I use it almost daily and have amassed 11,490 links as of today, and most of them have the HTML cached.

It's kind of fun to track my interests over time by counting tag frequency, but I mainly use it out of nostalgia and for the mere constancy of it.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

Thanks this look neat. Can you easily share index accros clients?

Edit : looks like the docker config allow to mount a arbitrary folder , that folder can be shared. I don’t need it to be concurrent proof.

Again, thanks this look nice.

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

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I have started doing something completely different than using bookmarks. I set up yacy[1] on a personal, internal server at my home, which I can access from all my devices, since they are always on my wireguard vpn. Yacy is actually a distributed search engine, but I run in 'Robinson mode' as a private peer, to keep it isolated, as I just want a personal search of only sites I have indexed. Anytime I come across som…

This is great, and is something I've wanted for a while. I use pinboard which is supposed to have similar capabilities (click 'search full text', 'search mine' after turning on and paying for 'archiving'), but I've never been totally confident in it (pages would change, and the cached version was updated to a 404 page), and ended up letting my archiving subscription lapse. I think google used to offer something that…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

Re: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

#190

Pinboard is still quite active. If you need proof just go to /recent which is a live firehose and interesting to see what people are bookmarking. I use Pinboard and regularly export my bookmarks incase their servers are hacked/wiped/corrupted.

That actually reminds me I haven't done an export in a looong time and I should.

I was using Magnolia before Pinboard and it went down permanently. Fortunately, at the time, I was doing link blog posts once or twice a week so I was able to recover most of my links with a bit of work.

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