Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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Post by austinjp » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:30 AM UTC

It's less simple than Delicious used to be, but it scratched the itch for a while for me. I barely ever bookmark anything these days. When Delicious was sold I stopped using it, and realised I didn't miss bookmarking and hardly ever read any of my bookmarks anyway. Excessive bookmarking seems like FOMO to me, I try to avoid it and embrace a more Zen-like attitude :)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#42

Post by jraph » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:35 AM UTC

Wallabag, a free software alternative to Pocket, that you can self-host if you want. They also provide a service you can subscribe to. Hosted in Europe.

https://www.wallabag.it/

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#43

Post by sebsauvage » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:36 AM UTC

Well... Shaarli. Dead simple to install, no fuss. https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

I have been using it for the past 15 years with great satisfaction.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#44

Post by closedloop129 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

For business software, there are various sites where alternatives are suggested and debated.

Why does this not exist in a general form for bookmarks? I want to bookmark articles and apps and then see how they rank and if I could read a better article about the topic or use a better app.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#45

Post by tga » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:52 AM UTC

Kovah wrote: post #30

If you would like to keep all your data private, self hosting is a good option. - LinkAce ( https://www.linkace.org ) - Linkding ( https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding ) - Wallabag ( https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag ) - Buku ( https://github.com/jarun/Buku ) - Linkwarden ( https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden )

My favourite self hosted option so far because it's fairly minimal but does offline archiving:

- Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#46

Post by koevet » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:53 AM UTC

Kovah wrote: post #30

If you would like to keep all your data private, self hosting is a good option. - LinkAce ( https://www.linkace.org ) - Linkding ( https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding ) - Wallabag ( https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag ) - Buku ( https://github.com/jarun/Buku ) - Linkwarden ( https://github.com/Daniel31x13/link-warden )

I would also add:

- archivebox (https://archivebox.io/)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#47

Post by netsharc » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 8:54 AM UTC

Normille wrote: post #34

waste_monk wrote: post #29

I always thought ausp.icio.us would have been a neat domain, shame they never did anything with that.

del.icio.us --must have been one of the worst domain names ever. OK 10/10 for making a clever word using the .us TLD extension. But I could never remember where the dot for the subdomain went: was it delic.io.us??... deli.cio.us?... del.icio.us?... de.licio.us?... Ironic that a bookmarking website ran on a domain I had to bookmark, coz I could never remember it.

Hear hear! And since I see UK spellings of words a lot, e.g. honour vs honor, my brain was always tripping me up, telling me the last u shouldn't be there, but wait it's "us", so the "o" must not belong there!

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#48

Post by RockstarSprain » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:06 AM UTC

04rob wrote: post #40

handspun wrote: post #5

https://raindrop.io/

Raindrop looks amazing. Wish it weren't based in Russia.

I once emailed my concerns to them and they replied they are actually based in Kazakhstan since a few years, while their servers are all on AWS.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

#49

Post by systemvoltage » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:08 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #4

pinboard.in but Maciej appears to be offline (?) at the moment and archiving is a bit broken (for me). Hope he's OK.

Pinboard is nice, I got a year subscription on a whim and don't use it. It is too much friction to use, not sure why. Even after installing a browser extension, it is just easier to drag the link in the bookmarks bar than to pin it on pinboard.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?

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Post by pjc50 » Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 9:12 AM UTC

fishbacon wrote: post #16

voltagex_ wrote: post #4

pinboard.in but Maciej appears to be offline (?) at the moment and archiving is a bit broken (for me). Hope he's OK.

Maciej announced on twitter that he would be taking the year 2022 off [1]. I have not had any issues with pinboard but I also only use it occasionally. [1]: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472

Yes, he spent the last couple of years getting involved in the US election and clearly burned himself out on that.