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I loved del.icio.us. It was a core part of my browsing experience. Any useful link I stumbled upon got tagged and saved. The popular links were very useful, too

I loved del.icio.us. It was a core part of my browsing experience. Any useful link I stumbled upon got tagged and saved. The popular links were very useful, too. Then it got sold to people who couldn't figure out how to make money off it without ruining it. I still miss the functionality of being able to quickly find every interesting webpage I've ever seen (using tags). A way to supply that functionality in the modern world would be a visited pages search feature on Google or Chrome. Or a search feature for the content of pages I've bookmarked.

wincy 4y ago
Why couldn't such a thing be a local browser extension or similar?
flir 4y ago
> A way to supply that functionality in the modern world would be a visited pages search feature on Google or Chrome I've been wondering about a plugin that does that. Maybe built over this? https://lunrjs.com/ https://lunrjs.com/ I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN this does not yet exist. (Easier to type that last sentence than actually Google for it).
tlavoie 4y ago
Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/) is still a thing, and the developer bought the deli.icio.us domain too I think. In any case, it has at least replicated the del.icio.us functionality, and then added more, such as archiving page contents. The tags are still there too, and it prompts with other users' tags when you add a bookmark. Oh, and an API, which is very useful for programmatic use of the data once saved.
- panic 4y ago
  Pinboard doesn’t have the social features that del.icio.us had—you can’t see the list of others who bookmarked a link, for example.
  - kordlessagain 4y ago
    In my opinion, social sharing usually requires free accounts. If the account costs money, then the social sharing features are probably less important. Pinboard says it is for introverts. If proper free accounts with all functions are supported, then advertising is a likely revenue model. To combat this problem, I've added sharing over email, SMS and Slack to my project, which is a personal search engine and document manager. There's no reason to not allow a very basic and free account function to read these shared links, without a lot of auth and registration getting in the way. The service already has the guest's email address, phone number or Slack account from the other user. This can be used to send a token for easy login. Limits would be added so these accounts can only store a few URLs themselves unless they upgrade. This keeps privacy protected, hopefully.
  - zargon 4y ago
    Yes, you can see people who bookmarked a link (if they haven't made it private).
    - panic 4y ago
      Wait really? How? I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this, but I’d love to know.
      - tlavoie 4y ago
        OK, so this seemed like something plausible to do, thought I'd take a look. - Looked at "popular" bookmarks, e.g. https://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/ - At the far right end of each page title, there's a little number. For example, beside "Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux", there's currently the number 21, which links to https://pinboard.in/url:61d59935774d1affe22713a7423c78bd17ef6103 https://pinboard.in/url:61d59935774d1affe22713a7423c78bd17ef.... - Following that link, you see who bookmarked that link, with name, tags, and some related other links. Of course, clicking on a user name will show you other things they've linked, at least using the default public setting.
spookthesunset 4y ago
Completely agree. Delicious was like the perfect bookmark manager. Then it went to complete shit and ever since then I’ve barely bookmarked anything. Honestly though I don’t think bookmarks serve much of a purpose anymore. Like I’ll just search my history if I need something specific. Or maybe I‘ve just forgotten how useful they are.
kordlessagain 4y ago
I'm building a personal search engine/document management system that uses tags similar to how del.icio.us worked. URLs and screenshots can be saved via the browser, or by instructing the system to crawl it (which gets done with Firefox/webdriver). It's a like a split brained version of the Grub crawler. It also supports uploading PDFs and images. Tags, objects, labels, synthesized commentary, etc. are provided by machine learning models and GPT3. Eventually the pipelines will be customizable, so running a plant identification model will be possible. Full text search and analytics is provided via a customized Solr deployment manager. I've built a unique UI for it based on my original cut of a simple timeseries interface at Loggly. Love using it, but have no idea if others will want to pay for it. I seriously hate ads, trackers and user privacy violations. merry-zebra|> !crawl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103 merry-zebra|> Please wait while I index https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103. merry-zebra|> Site has been indexed. An image of the site will be added in ~10 seconds. merry-zebra|> ... merry-zebra|> updated 2022-05-21T18:55:06Z merry-zebra|> ID UmXyyk3tZJdGZW4uv merry-zebra|> title What Happened to Tagging? (2019) | Hacker News merry-zebra|> description The article discusses the potential reasons why "tagging" (i.e. adding labels to content for organizational purposes) has declined in popularity in recent years, despite its usefulness. merry-zebra|> URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103 merry-zebra|> Tags #What, #Happened, #Tagging, #2019, #HackerNews, #News merry-zebra|> ... merry-zebra|> To search me for the document, click on one of the action links. system=> Do you have any comments about this webpage, @merry-zebra? merry-zebra|> I find tagging to be extremely useful for organizing content. I think the decline in popularity is likely due to the fact that it can be time consuming to tag everything, and people are often lazy. However, I think it is worth the effort to tag things, as it makes it much easier to find what you're looking for later on.
- dchuk 4y ago
  Is this a project you intend only for yourself? Or is it going to be a product?
  - kordlessagain 4y ago
    It's a hosted service that will be available as well as an on premise deployment for companies.
wvenable 4y ago
Am I missing something because I use Firefox? I bookmark and tag every interesting site I come across. Is tagging not a thing in Chrome?

wincy 4y ago

Why couldn't such a thing be a local browser extension or similar?

flir 4y ago

> A way to supply that functionality in the modern world would be a visited pages search feature on Google or Chrome I've been wondering about a plugin that does that. Maybe built over this? https://lunrjs.com/ https://lunrjs.com/ I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN this does not yet exist. (Easier to type that last sentence than actually Google for it).

tlavoie 4y ago

Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/) is still a thing, and the developer bought the deli.icio.us domain too I think. In any case, it has at least replicated the del.icio.us functionality, and then added more, such as archiving page contents. The tags are still there too, and it prompts with other users' tags when you add a bookmark. Oh, and an API, which is very useful for programmatic use of the data once saved.

panic 4y ago
Pinboard doesn’t have the social features that del.icio.us had—you can’t see the list of others who bookmarked a link, for example.
- kordlessagain 4y ago
  In my opinion, social sharing usually requires free accounts. If the account costs money, then the social sharing features are probably less important. Pinboard says it is for introverts. If proper free accounts with all functions are supported, then advertising is a likely revenue model. To combat this problem, I've added sharing over email, SMS and Slack to my project, which is a personal search engine and document manager. There's no reason to not allow a very basic and free account function to read these shared links, without a lot of auth and registration getting in the way. The service already has the guest's email address, phone number or Slack account from the other user. This can be used to send a token for easy login. Limits would be added so these accounts can only store a few URLs themselves unless they upgrade. This keeps privacy protected, hopefully.
- zargon 4y ago
  Yes, you can see people who bookmarked a link (if they haven't made it private).
  - panic 4y ago
    Wait really? How? I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this, but I’d love to know.
    - tlavoie 4y ago
      OK, so this seemed like something plausible to do, thought I'd take a look. - Looked at "popular" bookmarks, e.g. https://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/ - At the far right end of each page title, there's a little number. For example, beside "Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux", there's currently the number 21, which links to https://pinboard.in/url:61d59935774d1affe22713a7423c78bd17ef6103 https://pinboard.in/url:61d59935774d1affe22713a7423c78bd17ef.... - Following that link, you see who bookmarked that link, with name, tags, and some related other links. Of course, clicking on a user name will show you other things they've linked, at least using the default public setting.

spookthesunset 4y ago

Completely agree. Delicious was like the perfect bookmark manager. Then it went to complete shit and ever since then I’ve barely bookmarked anything. Honestly though I don’t think bookmarks serve much of a purpose anymore. Like I’ll just search my history if I need something specific. Or maybe I‘ve just forgotten how useful they are.

kordlessagain 4y ago

I'm building a personal search engine/document management system that uses tags similar to how del.icio.us worked. URLs and screenshots can be saved via the browser, or by instructing the system to crawl it (which gets done with Firefox/webdriver). It's a like a split brained version of the Grub crawler. It also supports uploading PDFs and images. Tags, objects, labels, synthesized commentary, etc. are provided by machine learning models and GPT3. Eventually the pipelines will be customizable, so running a plant identification model will be possible. Full text search and analytics is provided via a customized Solr deployment manager. I've built a unique UI for it based on my original cut of a simple timeseries interface at Loggly. Love using it, but have no idea if others will want to pay for it. I seriously hate ads, trackers and user privacy violations. merry-zebra|> !crawl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103 merry-zebra|> Please wait while I index https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103. merry-zebra|> Site has been indexed. An image of the site will be added in ~10 seconds. merry-zebra|> ... merry-zebra|> updated 2022-05-21T18:55:06Z merry-zebra|> ID UmXyyk3tZJdGZW4uv merry-zebra|> title What Happened to Tagging? (2019) | Hacker News merry-zebra|> description The article discusses the potential reasons why "tagging" (i.e. adding labels to content for organizational purposes) has declined in popularity in recent years, despite its usefulness. merry-zebra|> URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459103 merry-zebra|> Tags #What, #Happened, #Tagging, #2019, #HackerNews, #News merry-zebra|> ... merry-zebra|> To search me for the document, click on one of the action links. system=> Do you have any comments about this webpage, @merry-zebra? merry-zebra|> I find tagging to be extremely useful for organizing content. I think the decline in popularity is likely due to the fact that it can be time consuming to tag everything, and people are often lazy. However, I think it is worth the effort to tag things, as it makes it much easier to find what you're looking for later on.

dchuk 4y ago
Is this a project you intend only for yourself? Or is it going to be a product?
- kordlessagain 4y ago
  It's a hosted service that will be available as well as an on premise deployment for companies.

wvenable 4y ago

Am I missing something because I use Firefox? I bookmark and tag every interesting site I come across. Is tagging not a thing in Chrome?