Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:16 AM UTC

Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone
1r7.net

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:18 AM UTC

After spending some time last night bemoaning Delicious' impending demise, I decided to just write my own stand-in. So I put in a few extra hours last night and banged this out.

It's running on a free Heroku instance with a $5 MongoHQ DB backing it, so I fully expect it to explode if it gets any appreciable attention, but I'm pretty proud of it for an evening project and wanted to share.

Thanks to HNer mslagh for the domain - I picked it up as a part of his giveaway a few weeks back. :)

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by philfreo » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:23 AM UTC

got an error upon sign up

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:29 AM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #3

got an error upon sign up

Fixing it!

Edit: Fixed!

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by philfreo » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:31 AM UTC

cheald wrote: post #4

philfreo wrote: post #3

got an error upon sign up

Fixing it! Edit: Fixed!

and now i get an error when i try to change my username from the default random hash you gave me.

no offense, but don't post until you have the basic stuff together... people don't give you that many chances to impress

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:34 AM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #5

cheald wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fixing it! Edit: Fixed!

and now i get an error when i try to change my username from the default random hash you gave me. no offense, but don't post until you have the basic stuff together... people don't give you that many chances to impress

I thought I'd got most of the big pieces, but I was apparently tired last night when I did that. grin

Point humbly taken, though I'll try to get those fixed up ASAP.

(I used a new authentication framework on this project and haven't quite gotten my head around the edges, it seems)

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by Vekz » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:35 AM UTC

Can I import my Delicious data to this?

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:36 AM UTC

Vekz wrote: post #7

Can I import my Delicious data to this?

Yup. Once you log in there's an import tool that'll import any standard Netscape bookmarks file, which is what Delicious exports as.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by pyre » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:40 AM UTC

Looks good. Some nits though:

1. There isn't enough margin on the left side of the page. The text bumps up right against the edge of my browser. I don't know if this is just an oversight due to me smaller screen size (1024x600) or if everyone sees it like that.

2. The main page has horizontal scrolling on my netbook with fullscreen Chromium.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald » Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 1:51 AM UTC

pyre wrote: post #9

Looks good. Some nits though: 1. There isn't enough margin on the left side of the page. The text bumps up right against the edge of my browser. I don't know if this is just an oversight due to me smaller screen size (1024x600) or if everyone sees it like that. 2. The main page has horizontal scrolling on my netbook with fullscreen Chromium.

Yeah, I pushed it right up to the edge of the 1024x screen size (forgetting, stupidly, about netbooks). I'll see if I can dial it down a bit.

Edit: I reduced it a bit; should fix those issues.