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Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by Brajeshwar »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #16
hunglee2 wrote: post #12

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. ;)

I believe the founder, Joshua Schachter, should be the best person to answer that. He is also another active HackerNews user[1]. Unlike Flickr, I think, Delicious was never rescued from Yahoo!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by pcardoso »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #21
iforgotpassword wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

I believe the founder, Joshua Schachter, should be the best person to answer that. He is also another active HackerNews user[1]. Unlike Flickr, I think, Delicious was never rescued from Yahoo! 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu

Didn’t pinboard buy del.icio.us?

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by stareatgoats »

esafak wrote: post #8

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

Notebook apps and personal knowledge management systems largely serve this purpose. They don't really replace online bookmarking services; the latter serve as a discovery tool, not as a personal repository of useful links. The personal knowledge systems hold the potential to be the main interface to everything, but have not yet reached their full potential IMO.

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by esafak »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #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 b…

If you have to search the bookmarks themselves are of limited value.

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by snappysnap »

esafak wrote: post #26
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #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 b…

If you have to search the bookmarks themselves are of limited value.

One could argue that you could treat those bookmarks as "personally curated search results"?

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by Ringz »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #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 b…

My solution is quite simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item? Id=38421121

However, with the disadvantage that I do not use the search in the browser, but the search of the operating system.

Re: Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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Post by imiric »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #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 b…

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

I think that's an overstatement. I use tags regularly to find bookmarks in Pinboard. They work well since the content was curated by myself. I can find categories of links which can be further filtered into subcategories, etc., until I usually find what I want. It's a great way to have a collection of things I found interesting at some point, and tags and full-text search are useful enough to find them again when I need to.

Would I like a RAG type of interface over my bookmarks? Sure. But it's absolutely not required to have a good experience.

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