I ran across Freemark (freemark.did.life) recently. It's a bookmark site thats decentralized and has an option to migrate my bookmarks over. Planning on trying it.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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I have another theory, actually. I'm also a very old user, since the first days of the service, and I don't know how many saves I have it inside (will see when my export arrives). The latest iteration's search was abysmal , and I normally refrain from using strong words. It failed to find exact matches from titles, the words or excerpts I know that exist in the article I'm searching for, and as a result, it became a…
Yeah I have 32k saves and hit the same problems with search being extremely unreliable. About 5 years ago quotes stopped working in search. Trying to find "The Grapes of Wrath" would return all instances of "of" and "the." You could sort of hack it by searching for the most distinct word (maybe "Grapes") if you already knew exactly what you were searching for. I long suspected there was some architectural change they…
> suspected there was some architectural change they made on the backend that broke this
I think Mozilla specialises in this. At some point, having many tabs open on the Firefox iOS app would eat all the memory and lag out the phone. This problem even came and went a couple of times over the years.
It’s an unloved child being held captive for the money it earns.