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All their apps are open source. If anyone is interested - https://github.com/raindropio
When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
Originally on HN, six years ago. Still my most upvoted comment.
No thanks, i'll trust pinboard, he's a down to earth guy and while you might have some features that he doesn't have. They aren't worth it for another delicious shutdown or evernote going to shit.
Extensions page has (and since a long time)
- a dead Firefox add-on url
- a long abandoned Safari extension (Safari 5)
- I have never tried Chrome extension and the link is not yet dead so I assume it might still be working.
Oh yeah, there are some bookmarklets.
I think I will move mine to something self-hosted with browser add-on support for Safari and Firefox, at leat Firefox.
When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza with this ;). In otherwards what does it do!?! :)
"Forward to Marketing": https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_... Originally on HN, six years ago. Still my most upvoted comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491381
I’ve used raindrop for a year and sadly it’s been a horror story. To begin with it’s a complete maze just to subscribe to it. Second, a serious bug was released that replaced all my bookmarks with some random spam video. Third, the ultimate deal breaker which happened a few days ago, was that the iPad app is so buggy that it deleted all my bookmarks when I tried to simply move a folder to a different folder since the…
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I figured at the worst, import/prune/export back to my bookmark bar.
Exporting and syncing isn't a feature and won't be a feature, so uninstalled. Glad that part worked fast.
All their apps are open source. If anyone is interested - https://github.com/raindropio
I checked out the repo for the desktop electron app, it talks to a local server. I don't think the backend is open source. Electron is just a wrapper in this case, I would not consider this project open source.
You are expecting too much. It's a commercial venture. There is no reason to open source servers.