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Linkhut: A Social Bookmarking Site

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I built something similar a few years ago: https://link.horse

Amazing!

See also: LinkAce - https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce

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

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...

Acquisition by Yahoo! happened to it.

A lean and clean service being enshittified to the point of unusability? Unheard of in the history of the internet! :)

RIP to a real one. I found a del.icio.us replacement and a Google Reader replacement I might never need to go on the wider web ever again.

So people talking about this is exciting!

Wallabag[0] is useful too if you want a self-hosted bookmarking solution. I'm with Pinboard too, but regularly export my bookmarks so I have a backed up local copy of recent bookmarks I've added to Pinboard.

[0] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

[0] https://wallabag.org/

Reddit and programming.dev are my public social bookmarking sites. I can post anything I want in my subreddit and restrict who can comment.

I like the logo, but wouldn’t it look better if you change the yellow to white and and then maybe make the upper right quadrant blue?

Agree, that would be delicious.

I am using https://tinygem.org/

Same thing, free, work like pinboard.in

Open source and written in Elixir.

As someone who is a heavy user of Pinboard and has had Elixir on my 'to learn properly after dabbling' list for a while, looks like a great project to explore.

This has been done for decades. Anyone remember delicious? And in the late 90s we had Linkdup. They always seem to come and go for some reason.

Wow, I haven't heard of Linkdup in a really long time! I used to read that every day!

sits back and scratches grey beard

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/linkdup-2004

+1 for delicious,… wait… too soon?

I built something similar recently https://currl.io

This looks really good. I wish docker images were available for easy deployment to a Raspberry Pi server

RTEdge.net admin here,

DNSSEC for the .ht TLD was fixed after our demand (through Gandi).

You might as well enable it for your domain!

Why would they want to do that? It's extra work, extra downtime potential, and I believe literally no competing service of theirs uses it either. I mean, congrats on getting .HT fixed (when did that happen?), but I wouldn't enable it without a good reason.

Because DNS is an insecure protocol and DNSSEC adds a layer of security that protects against bad actors? It's beneficial to the business and it's consumers? Why do I put locks on my door, I've never been robbed...

DNSSEC does not add any protection for end users.

Drew resisted so much to have a star/bookmark feature on Sourcehut

It’s like a Reddit without upvotes or comments. Gives me a 2007 vibe.

saving to your account would be the upvote (I think)

this is great. I'm adding to my bookmarking list at https://othr.us

Is it still open source if sourcehut has been down all day?

Tongue in cheek but seriously I'm looking for a project like this but it's impossible to do anything with it at the moment.

The link at the bottom to the source code is incorrect, correct link is https://git.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut

Just to throw my hat in the ring I also worked on a social bookmarking site called HunterGather, with an emphasis on visual bookmarking and collections.

https://huntergather.website/

In.ht looks great though!

looks great, have you thought about infinite scroll? instead of manually clicking "load more"? cheers!

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.

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"?

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.

Here's the link, fixed, for the sake of other people's curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121

Also adding that Markdownload is awesome.

> 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.

I had the same problem back in the day, so I created https://historio.us, which is a search engine over the content of the pages. That way, you don't need to tag things, you have your own personal search engine.

What I want is a field where I can write a few sentences on why I thought it was important to bookmark, and include that when I search my bookmarks.

I used to store links in a Google Sheet for this reason. It's not ideal though as it ads friction to the process of adding a link.

I think a better system wouod be one where the bookmark stores either the "link source", i.e. backlink to the site you found the bookmarked link on, or the "search term", I.e. what you were specifically looking for when you bookmarked the page.

I slack myself .. for exactly that reason.

Diigo can integrate itself in Google results via the browser extension.

Thanks for the project idea. That sounds amazing. I always forget about very useful bookmarks I have.

This is the exact problem we're solving at https://www.zenfetch.com. Right now, as you're working in Google Docs we surface anything you've saved that's relevant. Will be working on a search integration and other PKM/text editor integrations soon.

What I'd like to see is some kind of "ongoing" or dossier for news. So when an errata or new development happen, even years later, you get a notification and can update your knowledge.

Specifically for things like "future miracle cure for X" or trials. Like "what happened with the Panama Papers"? Then you'd get a full dossier of articles, links, comments etc. It may require some standardized way to link news article together.

I think I would enjoy something like this (or pinboard), but with comments. Sort of a smaller version of Hackernews, where I could see what my friends are bookmarking and then write comments on those links, so we could chat about the content not necessarily with random people of the internet but with your smaller community (or maybe with everyone too, but in a different section).

Maybe someone here knows if anything like this exists already? I've taken a look at some of the options out there, but didn't end up trying them because it seemed like they didn't do anything like this, and were more focused on simply storing bookmarks (and maybe sharing them with upvotes, but nothing for conversation).

I believe that's called reddit.

Slow clap

Smells so bad though! I avoid it like I avoid Quora.

Interesting example. Reddit definitely started that way, but over time people went to it for discussion first. So the links actually end up getting ignored if the title of the Reddit post is enough for people to start posting comments right away.

Inks from Mr Ted might work for you

https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/inks

Hey, that's exactly what I've been building with lynkmi.com! The main idea is social link sharing, curation, and discussion in smaller circles. Have plenty more features coming down the line, including one I'm really excited about for bridging the in-person/online divide, but the general direction is described in lynkmi.com/about

Would love to give you an invite! I think my email is in my profile, if not my DMs on Twitter are open (@TheOisinMoran).

I also just added this to my "lynkmi adjacent" tag too for other related ones to check out: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/lynkmi%20adjacent

You want to use hypothes.is - it allows you to share highlights and comment on them in a private group or publicly

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

I setup Raindrop.io [1] to feed into Archivebox, mostly as an overcomplicated way to automatically submit the page to archive.org [2].

Raindrop is nice since it works in browser and as a phone app - so it truly is a single bookmarking tool. I mostly use it for search purposes, bookmarking things I may want to find again in a few years.

I rarely look at my Archivebox, but it's nice to know it's there with offline copies if I ever want them.

1. https://raindrop.io/

2. https://ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/

I see your pinboard and I raise one Shaarli

https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

I miss delicious.

Note : you can still access public bookmarks by tag on pinboard [1]. "AND" operator also works.

[1] Example : https://pinboard.in/t:bookmark

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