So far so good. Although could we get a more logical hierarchy? I would like to see my 'favourite' bookmarks at the top somehow.
Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
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Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#22Great job. Looks like you're getting hammered with traffic right now, but I'm curious how this holds up with a few synchronized instances of Chrome.
as long as you have the extension installed, everything you bookmark will be available in the service, regardless of which instance of chrome it came from.
Right - but I am curious about how Stashmarks handles conflict resolution, if it does. I naively assume it simply de-dupes URLs, meaning unexpected things could happen with multiple Chromes that aren't running sync or have updates queued while working offline. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
(I also agree with the comment below that it's an edge case for most users, especially Chrome sync users.)
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
as long as you have the extension installed, everything you bookmark will be available in the service, regardless of which instance of chrome it came from.
Right - but I am curious about how Stashmarks handles conflict resolution, if it does. I naively assume it simply de-dupes URLs, meaning unexpected things could happen with multiple Chromes that aren't running sync or have updates queued while working offline. Please correct me if I'm wrong. (I also agree with the comment below that it's an edge case for most users, especially Chrome sync users.)
Is this something that you would see happening on a regular basis though? how often do you bookmark the same thing multiple times in different instances of Chrome where at least 1 is offline? I agree that this is a theoretical issue that these guys should deal with, but in all practicality I can't foresee this ever being an issue with a real life user...
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#24Great job. Looks like you're getting hammered with traffic right now, but I'm curious how this holds up with a few synchronized instances of Chrome.
as long as you have the extension installed, everything you bookmark will be available in the service, regardless of which instance of chrome it came from.
Hey,
How long does it take for the bookmarks to upload? been taking a while now...
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#25Great work guys! not something I would have originally seen myself using, but having now tested it out I can see this replacing my bookmarks bar! Search could do with improving but I'm sure you'll sort that ;) any chance of viewing bookmarks that are the union or intersection of two tags/folders? I think that is something that would change how I organised my bookmarks, but would be useful to me personally (and I'd bet a whole bunch of other users).
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
as long as you have the extension installed, everything you bookmark will be available in the service, regardless of which instance of chrome it came from.
Right - but I am curious about how Stashmarks handles conflict resolution, if it does. I naively assume it simply de-dupes URLs, meaning unexpected things could happen with multiple Chromes that aren't running sync or have updates queued while working offline. Please correct me if I'm wrong. (I also agree with the comment below that it's an edge case for most users, especially Chrome sync users.)
URLs uniquely identify bookmarks, if two chromes have a bookmark with the same URL but different titles/tags, stashmarks will show whichever was synced first.
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#27Hey OP This looked really cool, so i installed it. Then it asked me to log in, and I uninstalled it right away. I want a nice bookmarks-handler, but i dont wanna log in to your shit.
But you made the effort to sign up for a HN account purely to post this comment? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xqo
Fair play you might not want to log in but the whole point in this service (I believe) is that it's synced across all of your Chrome instances, hence the need to sign in.
Alternative question (assuming their gonna start charging because otherwise they're operating a going-out-of-business model), would you pay for this if they were to make it a lightweight plug in that doesn't require signing in and doesn't sync across your various Chrome instances?
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#28This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks.
Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#29This looks really nice, but I'd like to hear what the account is required for. I'm not happy with the idea of another third-party having a peek inside my bookmarks. Maybe accounts shouldn't be strictly required, but would permit a fuller range of service? At any rate, I've hit a brick wall, because I am hesitant to go any further.
I understand your concern, and to be honest we thought about this a lot when making the product. The reason we upload your bookmarks to our server is so that we can download the html, index it and display excerpts in the timeline. For further information, you can read our privacy policy here: http://stashmarks.com/privacy
Re: Show HN: We made an awesome way to browse and search your Chrome bookmarks.
#30As much as I wish to see Google Chrome (and Firefox) update their bookmarks manager....I cannot really trust a third party service for my local bookmarks.