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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?

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post #12

Earlier 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 agree with your general point, but I don't think it's applicable here really. Raindrop targets users who aren't looking for "a relatively simple and clear-cut... bookmark stash". That's part of what it offers, but the actual value over a myriad of other tools is in the broader feature set, like web page highlights, uploading files and treating them as bookmarks, automatic bookmarking from other web services (e.g., auto bookmarking Twitter favorites), etc. There's still a ways to go for the service without departing from the core vision. For example, one of the more popular user requests seems to be for bookmarked PDFs to have the same highlighting options as bookmarked web pages.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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This is just sort of how the internet is going right now. Global, free services like that are starting to make less money. Facebook is circling the drain, Twitter is in hot water. Going decentralized is sort of getting more popular. Companies are focused more on profitability than growth right now, so there's little incentive to grow these platforms and more incentive to ruin them in the hopes of making money. I find…

> free services like that are starting to make less money GDPR's fault?

They made money by making all their users angry and depressed and they're finally getting tired of it. I think GDPR and the rest are just reflections of their user's fatigue.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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Check out http://pinboard.in/resources/ ... and that's not purely a recommendation to look at pinboard; scroll to the bottom of Resources & there's a list of alternatives. Many of which are mentioned here. Pretty bold, in my opinion, to list those and offer pinboard at $22/year (which actually seems like a good price). For the record, I'm using Instapaper and Safari's built-in (synced) bookmarks. So apparently, I'm not spiritually aligned.

To me, Search is the number 1 need. And would be cool if an extension that added a button to bookmark pages visited could also introspect every page I visit to look through old bookmarks & show a count in a separate button to view similar related pages I've already visited.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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post #78

From 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…

>Adding a star (*) to the address bar limits the search to bookmarks only

I did not know this, this will make searching through hundreds of bookmarks so much easier!

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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i use trello for links lately, since lots of my surfing is project-oriented

i use apple notes for links plus text for projects that have a short completion cycle (find a bunch of stuff, make an analysis and decision, jettison the research)

(this is relevant only because i wrote del.icio.us originally)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the exact opposite of being a spiritual successor to Delicious. It wasn't about hoarding personal data and keeping it secret. It was about sharing it publicly, like Twitter, and people following each other based on either personal connection or just a shared interest graph.

FWIW, this sort of thing (Delicious-like) always struck me as a good use case for decentralization.

the big value of delicious was the central aggregation, which becomes difficult in a decentralized manner

that said, i always wanted to split delicious up into "islands" of ~50k users or so, and allow each island determine it's own local rules. and if you didn't like your island, you could go elsewhere. yahoo wouldn't entertain this idea at the time.... this was before subreddits happened but the success of subreddits suggests to me that i was directionally correct

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#128

I always thought ausp.icio.us would have been a neat domain, shame they never did anything with that.

del.icio.us --must have been one of the worst domain names ever. OK 10/10 for making a clever word using the .us TLD extension. But I could never remember where the dot for the subdomain went: was it delic.io.us??... deli.cio.us?... del.icio.us?... de.licio.us?... Ironic that a bookmarking website ran on a domain I had to bookmark, coz I could never remember it.

we owned delicio.us and other domains to let us put the dots in other places, as well as delicious.com.

but i am glad you found the opportunity to do the nerdiest seinfeld impression.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#130
post #61

Call 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

How do online services solve link rot?
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