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210 points mstef | 6 comments | | HN request time: 0.818s | source | bottom

a bit of background. this is a rewrite of omnom by asciimoo - the guy who also made searx. originally i wrote omnom, back in the days when del.icio.us was enshittified and gone down the drain. instead of complaining i was taking the opportunity to write a replacement that i would want, it became omnom, and for many years me and a bunch of users were very happy with it.

but the fast moving world of browser extensions made maintenance (for a non-commercial free software side project) too expensive, so the extension support became erratic, until it died completely. for a year or two i didn't use it.

but then asked asciimo if he could have a look a the extensions (since he was recently working on another extension, so had some experience), he looked at it, and rewrote the whole thing in go and fixed the extension. he even got support from nlnet/ngi0.

if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go, it's very simple, privacy respecting and most robust when it comes to snapshotting. asciimoo did a great job.

1. crossroadsguy ◴[] No.43684082[source]
After quite some exploring around and struggles I made my peace with https://raindrop.io. Am I happy with that? Of course not. But that's the only hosted one which has extensions and apps for almost every browser and OS I use. I wish there a functional open source service (hosted) with wide range of platforms support that I could pay for and use.
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2. Onawa ◴[] No.43684676[source]
I agree, I made my peace with Raindrop.io as well. Being able to use it on any system and most any browser, plus a full API for interacting with my bookmarks. Nothing free and open source compared and now I have 6k+ bookmarks in Raindrop that I would like to move elsewhere, but I'll have to check out the project linked here.
3. YalebB ◴[] No.43684692[source]
I made an app for this actually, called Showcase. You can bookmark any content——Youtube videos, websites, Tweets, Instagram posts—— and store it all together. You can use it on browser where you can paste directly onto the canvas (+ chrome extension coming) or iOS that has a Share Extension too.

It's also free ;)

Demo for Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGolVAHm8U

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/showcase-co/id6740991352?platf...

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4. theeasyway ◴[] No.43684810[source]
Oh wow this is super nice I'll definitely be using this
5. T0Bi ◴[] No.43687375[source]
Looks really nice. ETA on play store release? Or do you have a alpha/beta apk?
6. rendaw ◴[] No.43688683[source]
Does Omnom not? They have FF and Chrome extensions...