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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 2 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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alance ◴[12 Oct 25 08:44 UTC] No.45556526[source]▶
I liked del.icio.us, it was online bookmark sharing, but with actual people I knew, and it had genuinely useful category tagging. I guess it was basically replaced with https://old.reddit.com and maybe twitter.
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dewey ◴[12 Oct 25 08:56 UTC] No.45556602[source]▶
Isn’t Pinboard (Who bought delicious) very similar? I also see bookmarks of my friend there, recently switched to Raindrop though as it’s much more maintained.
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1. youngtaff ◴[12 Oct 25 10:16 UTC] No.45557002[source]▶
it is but people are switching away due to lack of maintenance and the founders political views
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2. starkparker ◴[12 Oct 25 22:18 UTC] No.45562530[source]▶
There's also Readeck, which is a similar self-hosted tool that also captures some text content it can discover (i.e. article text and images, video transcripts, highlighted sections) and can export collections to RSS feeds and epub.