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Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

#11
Delicious[1] was delicous, and Pinboard[2] is just there. Not into bookmarks that much except for less than 10 significant websites. I might look at ArchiveBox[3] or something like it to bookmark and take a snapshot. Again, none of them as important as it used to be.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

2. https://pinboard.in

3. https://archivebox.io

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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post #8

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> Search killed bookmarks

Has it? Search (especially on Google) is 20% ads and 70% SEO spam with ads. Search might have killed bookmarks back then, but today it is of little use to find interesting links. Maybe Linkhut solves this.

To answer your question, bookmarks. Reading lists. Markdown files. That can't be taken away or enshittified just yet.

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

#16

wow is the return of Delicious? One of my favourite sites back in the day. Hope for this site's success, great way to discover new things

I never bothered to figure out what happened. It was del.icio.us where everything was lean and clean and worked well and at some point it moved to delicious.com and went to shit. At least that's how I remember things. ;)

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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wow is the return of Delicious? One of my favourite sites back in the day. Hope for this site's success, great way to discover new things

I never bothered to figure out what happened. It was del.icio.us where everything was lean and clean and worked well and at some point it moved to delicious.com and went to shit. At least that's how I remember things. ;)

yeah, it was brilliant service.

Don't know the history of it but I didn't see a revenue model and they ended up pivoting around for something that would make money. Seems like there are certain ideas which are destined to be great services but not great businesses. We should figure out a way to put them into the public demesne where they can be collectively supported in a non-profit way, rather than see them die off after unsuccessful pivots

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

#18
The biggest problem with bookmarks isn't the bookmarking; it's the rediscoverability.

Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.

And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."

That, or a RAG based solution.

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

#19
post #8

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>are there better paradigms for organizing links, documents, files, etc.?

I keep a Resources section in my knowledgebase across several categories (e.g. Career, Health, Dating) and mostly dump links there.

I don't know about others but I barely open any bookmarks or any links saved anywhere, but the value of this is more to re-discover niche resource links that would've been hard to find from scratch.

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