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I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard. Its named linkhut and it’s currently able to imp

I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard. Its named linkhut and it’s currently able to import your bookmarks from pinboard and browser exports. The flagship instance is: https://ln.ht https://ln.ht The source code is hosted here: https://sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut/ https://sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut/ The documentation: https://docs.linkhut.org/introduction.html https://docs.linkhut.org/introduction.html Two things that I think are very important in a bookmarking app (and why I‘ve been working on making one of my own on and off for a while): open source and offering an API for other tools to build upon. The current API on linkhut aims to be bug for bug compatible with pinboard while being more OAuth-y. I’m still working on a snapshotting feature similar to pinboard’s, once that’s ready I think I’ll call 1.0 complete. Perhaps I’ll do a Show HN then.

wyclif 4y ago
It's weird that this is at least the third iteration of "bookmarks on the web" that I've used. My trajectory has basically been del.icio.us > delicious > pinboard > linkhut (still kicking the tires on the latter though, staying on Pinboard for now but hope it doesn't stop working).
- wyclif 4y ago
  @landhar Some feedback: the EDIT | DELETE and COPY TO MINE text is too large and overwhelms the bookmark entry, being bigger than the link title.
test1235 4y ago
I just created a new account and migrated my bookmarks from pinboard - worked great!
- landhar 4y ago
  Glad to hear! Let me know if you run into any issues either here or directly by cutting a ticket: https://todo.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut https://todo.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut
- wyclif 4y ago
  So how do you export your bookmarks from pinboard?
  - test1235 4y ago
    settings -> backup you want to export as html, in netscape format
    - wyclif 4y ago
      Settings -> Import. Tried it as an experiment (I'm planning on staying with Pinboard, at least as long as it keeps working), but it keeps failing, at least when trying to import as HTML.
l0b0 4y ago
Interesting! Got an account, but I wonder how you/we are going to pay for it. Even with just a few million bookmarks you're going to need a non-trivial DB setup, and (according to some napkin maths on my Pinboard account) ~2.5 MB of storage per bookmark for the snapshotting feature.
- dewey 4y ago
  > ~2.5 MB of storage per bookmark for the snapshotting feature. Could also be "outsourced" to archive.org and submitted there for the user (and to the benefit of others).
  - gilbertbw 4y ago
    I think a feature of these bookmarking services is that you can search through the text on bookmarked pages?
dabeeeenster 4y ago
A docker image would be great to help self-hosters. Looks like a great tool!
gala8y 4y ago
Fantastic! Big thanks for developing it in the spirit of open source.
marceldegraaf 4y ago
This is great. I'm an Elixir engineer myself, and would love to contribute to something I can self-host. Are you open to external contributions? If so, what's a good/useful place to start? EDIT: if I would self-host this, I would want to run it in a Docker container. Is that something where I could help?
alberth 4y ago
I’m a Phoenix fan but curious, why the choice of Elixir here? I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static.
- gala8y 4y ago
  > I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static. Not if you want to make AND operations with tags (which is crucial functionality for bookmarking).
  - alberth 4y ago
    Playing devils advocate, but couldn't you do that with client side JS calling a Redis cache?
    - couchand 4y ago
      If viewing a list of basic links requires client-side JS you're doing it wrong.
      - alberth 4y ago
        It's not about viewing a list of basic links. It's to address the comment about performing AND operations to see only links that match multiple Tags.
        couchand 4y ago
        Ok, I'll amend my statement to read: "if viewing a list of basic links that match a few basic filters requires client-side JS you're doing it wrong" and I stand by it. If you'd like to employ JS to progressively-enhance your user experience, great. If you are architecturally requiring JS for basic functionality? stop.
        alberth 4y ago
        If you were to have a static site (note: that was the original question), and want to perform a dynamic tasks (like filtering) - how else would you do it besides using JS?
wyclif 4y ago
Importing as HTML is failing at the moment, heads up.
- wyclif 4y ago
  EDIT: I got it to work after a few tries.

wyclif 4y ago

It's weird that this is at least the third iteration of "bookmarks on the web" that I've used. My trajectory has basically been del.icio.us > delicious > pinboard > linkhut (still kicking the tires on the latter though, staying on Pinboard for now but hope it doesn't stop working).

wyclif 4y ago
@landhar Some feedback: the EDIT | DELETE and COPY TO MINE text is too large and overwhelms the bookmark entry, being bigger than the link title.

test1235 4y ago

I just created a new account and migrated my bookmarks from pinboard - worked great!

landhar 4y ago
Glad to hear! Let me know if you run into any issues either here or directly by cutting a ticket: https://todo.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut https://todo.sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut
wyclif 4y ago
So how do you export your bookmarks from pinboard?
- test1235 4y ago
  settings -> backup you want to export as html, in netscape format
  - wyclif 4y ago
    Settings -> Import. Tried it as an experiment (I'm planning on staying with Pinboard, at least as long as it keeps working), but it keeps failing, at least when trying to import as HTML.

l0b0 4y ago

Interesting! Got an account, but I wonder how you/we are going to pay for it. Even with just a few million bookmarks you're going to need a non-trivial DB setup, and (according to some napkin maths on my Pinboard account) ~2.5 MB of storage per bookmark for the snapshotting feature.

dewey 4y ago
> ~2.5 MB of storage per bookmark for the snapshotting feature. Could also be "outsourced" to archive.org and submitted there for the user (and to the benefit of others).
- gilbertbw 4y ago
  I think a feature of these bookmarking services is that you can search through the text on bookmarked pages?

dabeeeenster 4y ago

A docker image would be great to help self-hosters. Looks like a great tool!

gala8y 4y ago

Fantastic! Big thanks for developing it in the spirit of open source.

marceldegraaf 4y ago

This is great. I'm an Elixir engineer myself, and would love to contribute to something I can self-host. Are you open to external contributions? If so, what's a good/useful place to start? EDIT: if I would self-host this, I would want to run it in a Docker container. Is that something where I could help?

alberth 4y ago

I’m a Phoenix fan but curious, why the choice of Elixir here? I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static.

gala8y 4y ago
> I could be mistake but isn’t a site like Pinboard largely static. Not if you want to make AND operations with tags (which is crucial functionality for bookmarking).
- alberth 4y ago
  Playing devils advocate, but couldn't you do that with client side JS calling a Redis cache?
  - couchand 4y ago
    If viewing a list of basic links requires client-side JS you're doing it wrong.
    - alberth 4y ago
      It's not about viewing a list of basic links. It's to address the comment about performing AND operations to see only links that match multiple Tags.
      - couchand 4y ago
        Ok, I'll amend my statement to read: "if viewing a list of basic links that match a few basic filters requires client-side JS you're doing it wrong" and I stand by it. If you'd like to employ JS to progressively-enhance your user experience, great. If you are architecturally requiring JS for basic functionality? stop.
        alberth 4y ago
        If you were to have a static site (note: that was the original question), and want to perform a dynamic tasks (like filtering) - how else would you do it besides using JS?

wyclif 4y ago

Importing as HTML is failing at the moment, heads up.

wyclif 4y ago
EDIT: I got it to work after a few tries.