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       Show HN: Currl - A free text-based social bookmarking website
        
       Author : vasanthv
       Score  : 106 points
       Date   : 2023-05-02 12:09 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (currl.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (currl.io)
        
       | mnsc wrote:
       | I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!
        
         | ibz wrote:
         | pinboard.in still rocking!
        
           | mtmail wrote:
           | I thought pinboard.in is not longer maintained? "Ask HN: What
           | Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?"
           | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802) There's also
           | a June, August, November edition.
        
             | altairprime wrote:
             | Reading that thread from December, it looks like Pinboard's
             | archive service is not in good health, but the core
             | bookmarking service is still operating correctly. I didn't
             | really remember that Pinboard had an archiving service
             | (delicious didn't), but yep, that extra component appears
             | to be suffering.
        
             | kryptiskt wrote:
             | It still works fine for me including archiving. So either
             | it's very resilient or there is maintenance happening.
        
               | joshmanders wrote:
               | He's stated in past threads that whether it works or not
               | for you depends on what machine your account gets
               | assigned to. So it's not resilient or maintenance, some
               | machines are borked and others aren't. Pray you aren't on
               | the borked machine.
        
         | ssss11 wrote:
         | I came to write this but you beat me. Kudos :D I loved that
         | site
        
       | bsnnkv wrote:
       | Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-
       | based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to
       | work on them.
       | 
       | In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think
       | saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me.
       | 
       | These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations
       | as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable
       | collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I
       | found something interesting (without the context of what that
       | something was).
       | 
       | There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve
       | this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as
       | it does to me.
       | 
       | [1]: Previous discussions:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765
        
       | nittanymount wrote:
       | a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your
       | service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks
       | to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove
       | some concern... - as the name implied, if you could provide a
       | terminal cli, that will be a plus too.. my 2c...
        
         | vasanthv wrote:
         | That is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download
         | bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks
        
       | jrm4 wrote:
       | First of all, this is a great url. In my head it's like
       | 
       | "Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"
        
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       | qwertox wrote:
       | I'd like to see custom css support, like a field to input it, so
       | that I could have one link per line, all very compact.
        
         | criswell wrote:
         | give me apache directory listing styled websites or give me
         | death
        
       | entropie wrote:
       | I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to
       | bookmark pages but it also downloads image/videos/gfycats and
       | saves them on the server.
       | 
       | [1] https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks
        
       | joshuajill wrote:
       | Had my share of free beer for eternity.
        
         | joshuajill wrote:
         | That said, like the barebones design.
        
       | keb_ wrote:
       | Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer
       | trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be
       | abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just degrade. I need
       | to know I can migrate easily once it happens.
        
         | pitzips wrote:
         | linkding hit the spot for me. self hosted with simple API.
         | https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
        
         | tuananh wrote:
         | pinboard.in has been around for quite awhile :)
        
           | replwoacause wrote:
           | That is the exact service that came to mind when I saw the
           | words "abandoned" and "enshittification".
        
             | [deleted]
        
           | bachmeier wrote:
           | For anyone reading this, consider
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375
        
           | marcellus23 wrote:
           | Pinboard is abandoned. Not just in the sense that no new
           | features have been added in years, but in the sense that
           | existing features are actually broken and are not being
           | fixed, despite still accepting money from customers.
        
         | joshuajill wrote:
         | There is Shaarli and Wallabag (archives pages to read later)
         | Both open source and self hostable.
        
       | the-printer wrote:
       | The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great
       | design and supports RSS.
        
       | mwachs wrote:
       | del.icio.us is back!
        
       | newswasboring wrote:
       | It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a
       | link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered
       | it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do something to make
       | clear what is a link.
       | 
       | I am on mobile, using the brave browser.
        
       | keithnz wrote:
       | maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?
        
         | omoikane wrote:
         | I remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to
         | establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually
         | settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name
         | quickly and build their reputation there, instead of adding
         | confusion to cURL's name.
        
         | tempodox wrote:
         | Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.
        
           | ocimbote wrote:
           | I think the pun is "See you, URL", but I agree that it makes
           | it horribly confusing.
        
             | Bilal_io wrote:
             | But it has a double "r" not double "u"
        
               | ocimbote wrote:
               | OMG you're right! XD
        
       | Minor49er wrote:
       | Simple and straightforward. I like it
       | 
       | Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?
        
         | vasanthv wrote:
         | Thank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.
        
       | wopwops wrote:
       | Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.
        
       | Leires wrote:
       | Not for me, but good luck.
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | We've come full circle. :)
       | 
       | First there was del.icio.us.
       | 
       | Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us
       | with voting".
       | 
       | And now we're back to del.icio.us!
        
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