Not exactly a successor, but if you want to store links and make them into a shortcut, you can use OSlash - https://www.oslash.com/
Very handy way of using your daily links such as - o/roadmap - o/allhands - o/issue/{search}
Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#72pinboard.in but Maciej appears to be offline (?) at the moment and archiving is a bit broken (for me). Hope he's OK.
Pinboard is nice, I got a year subscription on a whim and don't use it. It is too much friction to use, not sure why. Even after installing a browser extension, it is just easier to drag the link in the bookmarks bar than to pin it on pinboard.
It is faster to use the bookmarklet
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second raindrop. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s really good, very affordable, and new features are released regularly.
Off-topic question-observation: I've been wondering lately why "new features are released regularly" is generally considered a boon when talking about software and specifically in a product that serves a relatively simple and clear-cut need like a bookmark stash. My TV does one job: it shows pictures really fast on a grid of pixels. Sure it's nice that, hardware permitting, support can be added for new media layer vi…
> I've been wondering lately why "new features are released regularly" is generally considered a boon when talking about software and specifically in a product that serves a relatively simple and clear-cut need like a bookmark stash
There's a very good talk by Moxie "the ecosystem is moving"[1][2] and the reason you need your software to be changing constantly, even when it's doing one thing well, is because all other software is changing, moving requirements, compatibility, and integrations.
Also, it's not like we have no progress in UX. I quite like the light/dark theme in apps changing according to the time of day. It only really started working well within the last two years after all apps adapted.
[1] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#74Depends on your goals with this.
If it is sharing of links, use Twitter or whatever social network you use. My main issues with those is that they don't tend to have good history/search if you want to dig out a link you shared months ago. I find finding back what I remember sharing or what I saw other share a bit of a challenge with social networks. This was what del.ico.us was good at. Also nice was getting a sense of how popular things were from how many people bookmarked a certain thing.
If it is just storing bookmarks, use the browser sync in your browser. I have my bookmarks synced across my devices with Firefox. But I don't use bookmarks that often.
I never had much use for things like pocket. At least, I either click on something and read it right away or I don't. I don't really save things for reading them later. Just not part of how I do things. But I guess if I would, bookmarks are fine for that as well.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#75I’m building Scriffer.com as a platform to save all your thoughts on internet content. You can highlight and share pages and they’re all saved for later. I’m thinking of adding user profiles to be able to follow people and see what they’re reading and noting too. I’m not sure if it’s entirely a spiritual successor as I’m too young to have used del.icio.us sadly.
It's offline. Hug of death or not yet published?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#76I never used del.icio.us but it does appeal to me. I build my own bookmark system that I self-host. I use too many systems and browsers to use the bookmarking in browsers. I used to use Google Bookmarks but I imported everything into my own tool now.
Still working on a v2...
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#77Call me old-fashioned, but I use Cmd-D to save bookmarks, and either the search bar or the bookmark library to organize/look through them. When I decide I want to blow away my operating system, I export my bookmarks and import them at the new incarnation.
The problem is link rot and searching contents for me
Use OSlash www.oslash.com
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#78From my experience, simplicity and portability is really the key to a long term and effective bookmarking system.
I add everything into one single bookmark folder in Firefox and slap on a few tags. Syncing between devices works perfectly. Adding a star (*) to the address bar limits the search to bookmarks only, which makes it insanely fast to look up interesting stuff I have bookmarked but vaguely remember, by typing one or two keywords. It makes it easy to look up things on my phone too, when out with friends and I need reference a project, article or whatever.
It has become the second brain I always wanted but never managed to maintain with more complex tools and services.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#79I’m building Scriffer.com as a platform to save all your thoughts on internet content. You can highlight and share pages and they’re all saved for later. I’m thinking of adding user profiles to be able to follow people and see what they’re reading and noting too. I’m not sure if it’s entirely a spiritual successor as I’m too young to have used del.icio.us sadly.
It's offline. Hug of death or not yet published?
Weird, not showing any downtime, perhaps DNS not propagated yet as I only published yesterday on the new domain.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinboard was nice and simple once, but nowadays doesn't seem to be maintained and is broken in many ways. I've been trying to export my archive backup for almost a year without success.
It feels more "complete" than "unmaintained" to me. It's pretty basic in what it does, but it does that well. I haven't noticed any bugs as such - what did you find that's actually broken?
I am a long-time user and archiving broke on my account at least half a year ago. Despite two support emails I did not get any replies. Feels quite "unmaintained" to me.