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If you liked delicious(/pinboard) you might enjoy my FOSS side project that is along the same lines: social bookmarking, but with a few extra features like full

If you liked delicious(/pinboard) you might enjoy my FOSS side project that is along the same lines: social bookmarking, but with a few extra features like full text search, finding HN/reddit threads and showing back links. You can register (free) here: https://quarchive.com/about https://quarchive.com/about And full src here: https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive An example bookmark: https://quarchive.com/shares/m60ggJ3Z82xqzbHmpMPzCw84 https://quarchive.com/shares/m60ggJ3Z82xqzbHmpMPzCw84 I liked pinboard a lot but I got tired of using wonky browser extensions and having to bookmark the thread I found a link from as a semi-duplicate. I'd love any feedback people have for me, I've only shown it to a small number of people so far.

l0b0 6y ago
Great effort already! I would love to use an open source Pinboard-esque system: as simple and powerful as possible. That said, as a power user on del.icio.us and then Pinboard: - I should be able to put every single non-control Unicode character in a tag. Basically, they should be arbitrary UTF-8 bytes. So backslash, less than, smiley, omega, non-breaking space and the like. The only difficulty with this is making sure the markup is properly escaped. - Personally I'm not a fan of separate flags like "unread", and the only one I've ever used is the "private" flag (which shouldn't be implemented using just tags - just consider someone tagging "privat" and not realizing the bookmark isn't private). First, tags are perfect for this use case, and gives a lot more freedom to implement whatever hacks I want, like "tosee"/"unwatched" for videos, "at:chapter-3" to mark progress, and the like. Second, it is a different axis along which bookmarks are accessed, orthogonal to the tags. Which means different mechanisms for grouping, sorting, searching, etc. just for this one flag.
- calpaterson 6y ago
  Glad you think it's promising. There is still some distance to go - it needs a second pass over some of the (pretty rough) features. Regarding tags: I am not sure I completely agree with you how easy it will be to remove all the current limits on tags but I do share your sentiment and I have filed the matter as a github issue: https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive/issues/67 https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive/issues/67 . I can't promise any priority because as this is a side project I can only work at my own pace but I foresee it happening "soon" - just that my main task right now is showing what I have to people and getting feedback. On the unread flag: you're probably right. That was implemented before tags were, in order to allow for importing my own bookmarks from pinboard (I personally do not use tags). Private flags: as a usability matter, yes. But my plan is to allow for more fine-grained sharing/permissions (the MVP of which is the current share feature). Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate the time you took to try it out and leave your comments. Do keep in touch over email! cal@calpaterson.com

l0b0 6y ago

Great effort already! I would love to use an open source Pinboard-esque system: as simple and powerful as possible. That said, as a power user on del.icio.us and then Pinboard: - I should be able to put every single non-control Unicode character in a tag. Basically, they should be arbitrary UTF-8 bytes. So backslash, less than, smiley, omega, non-breaking space and the like. The only difficulty with this is making sure the markup is properly escaped. - Personally I'm not a fan of separate flags like "unread", and the only one I've ever used is the "private" flag (which shouldn't be implemented using just tags - just consider someone tagging "privat" and not realizing the bookmark isn't private). First, tags are perfect for this use case, and gives a lot more freedom to implement whatever hacks I want, like "tosee"/"unwatched" for videos, "at:chapter-3" to mark progress, and the like. Second, it is a different axis along which bookmarks are accessed, orthogonal to the tags. Which means different mechanisms for grouping, sorting, searching, etc. just for this one flag.

calpaterson 6y ago
Glad you think it's promising. There is still some distance to go - it needs a second pass over some of the (pretty rough) features. Regarding tags: I am not sure I completely agree with you how easy it will be to remove all the current limits on tags but I do share your sentiment and I have filed the matter as a github issue: https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive/issues/67 https://github.com/calpaterson/quarchive/issues/67 . I can't promise any priority because as this is a side project I can only work at my own pace but I foresee it happening "soon" - just that my main task right now is showing what I have to people and getting feedback. On the unread flag: you're probably right. That was implemented before tags were, in order to allow for importing my own bookmarks from pinboard (I personally do not use tags). Private flags: as a usability matter, yes. But my plan is to allow for more fine-grained sharing/permissions (the MVP of which is the current share feature). Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate the time you took to try it out and leave your comments. Do keep in touch over email! cal@calpaterson.com