Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#31

Post by Minor49er » Tue, May 02, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

Simple and straightforward. I like it

Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

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Post by jedberg » Tue, May 02, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

We've come full circle. :)

First there was del.icio.us.

Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting".

And now we're back to del.icio.us!

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#33

Post by omoikane » Tue, May 02, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

keithnz wrote: post #6

maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?

I remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name quickly and build their reputation there, instead of adding confusion to cURL's name.

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

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Post by wopwops » Tue, May 02, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#35

Post by bsnnkv » Tue, May 02, 2023, 7:33 PM UTC

Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them.

In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me.

These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I found something interesting (without the context of what that something was).

There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as it does to me.

[1]: Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#36

Post by Bilal_io » Tue, May 02, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

ocimbote wrote: post #30

tempodox wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.

I think the pun is "See you, URL", but I agree that it makes it horribly confusing.

But it has a double "r" not double "u"

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

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Post by vasanthv » Tue, May 02, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

Minor49er wrote: post #31

Simple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

Thank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#38

Post by vasanthv » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:01 PM UTC

nittanymount wrote: post #13

a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove some concern... - as the name implied, if you could provide a terminal cli, that will be a plus too.. my 2c...

That is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

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Post by ocimbote » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

Bilal_io wrote: post #36

ocimbote wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the pun is "See you, URL", but I agree that it makes it horribly confusing.

But it has a double "r" not double "u"

OMG you're right! XD

Re: Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

#40

Post by the-printer » Tue, May 02, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.