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Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

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Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

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Post by maestrae »

Been looking at these tools and honestly, my big issue is backup - specifically, I want a dead simple way to continuously back up my links to something like S3. Not really interested in relying on the Internet Archive or having to set up and babysit yet another backup system. is it like completely antithetical to the average self-hoster ethos to use the cloud where it makes sense?

I really like hoarder, but kind of surprised how many tools either totally skip over backup functionality or treat it as an afterthought (like this Hoarder issue here: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/issues/75). Feels like this should be a no-brainer feature, right?

Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

#32

Post by hnmias »

raybb wrote: post #26
elashri wrote: post #7

I tried hoarder and I didn't like the way listed view works. I prefer the simplicity of the view provided by Linkding. I find hoarder new auto tagging with ollama something I want to use because I am lazy. For references there are many options in selfhosted bookmarking apps market. These beside Hoarder are the most known software. Linkwarden ( https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden ) Shaarli ( https://github.com/sh…

When I use a tool like this one of the most important things is that it works offline so I can read something in a plane or on the go. I've looked into most of these (and instapaper, pocket, etc) and ultimately found Wallabag to be the best. However, their app is quite buggy and site is fairly clunky for my taste. Luckily there's a pretty recent 3rd party client that works offline super well and is on Mac/Linux/andro…

thanks for the app recomendation, didnt know about it yet..

regarding youtube, my youtube links saved with wallabager browser extension always show the correct title, are you using something else to save them?

Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

#33

Post by mohamedbassem »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #27
_ache_ wrote: post #18

I use it for months now. It's very good. Some points that can be improved: - Search inside the description of the bookmark, it doesn't. - Update to a new version of hoarder. Since the software isn't stable, it's a real problem. - Related to the previous point => More archive formats. Otherwise, it's a very good software. Easy to use, nice front-end, good UX.

Is there an official upgrade path available between versions, or do they currently break things without providing migration?

Hey, Hoarder's maintainer here. I'd like to know more about the pain you're facing when upgrading hoarder. All the releases since launch has been backward compatible, and it has always been just a matter of updating the docker images.

Also for searches, Hoarder indexes all the content of the websites it crawls. If it doesn't for you then that would be a bug!

Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

#35

Post by mohamedbassem »

jrm4 wrote: post #20

So far I love and am probably about to go all in, especially since you can bring your own "AI." Relatedly (and I think the authors are working on it) anyone using local AI for tags and know good ways to tweak (I'm using Ollama and would love to constrain the the tags a bit?)

Hoarder supports customizing the tagging prompt in the user settings. You can instruct the model with whatever rules you want to constrain the tags to your likings!

Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

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Post by [deleted] »

elashri wrote: post #7

I tried hoarder and I didn't like the way listed view works. I prefer the simplicity of the view provided by Linkding. I find hoarder new auto tagging with ollama something I want to use because I am lazy. For references there are many options in selfhosted bookmarking apps market. These beside Hoarder are the most known software. Linkwarden ( https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden ) Shaarli ( https://github.com/sh…

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Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

#39

Post by nrdvana »

maestrae wrote: post #31

Been looking at these tools and honestly, my big issue is backup - specifically, I want a dead simple way to continuously back up my links to something like S3. Not really interested in relying on the Internet Archive or having to set up and babysit yet another backup system. is it like completely antithetical to the average self-hoster ethos to use the cloud where it makes sense? I really like hoarder, but kind of s…

If you're hosting it yourself, I would expect that you also make backups of your whole server and/or database if one is involved. A custom backup feature built into the app seems redundant.

Re: Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

#40

Post by anovick »

Seems like the tag system is flat, which is a big limitation on the organization capability.

For example, I noticed that in the demo access app, there's a note about cooking, and it has 4 tags: - `baking` - `cupcakes` - `oven cooking` - `recipe`

This would get out of hand quickly.

There should be a hierarchy of tags (categories): `cupcakes` in `baking` in `oven cooking` in `recipe`

The only tag needed in this case for the note would be `cupcakes`

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