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by platz 2458 days ago
Plugging my self hosted web based bookmark manager as well https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

I like the ingestion via bookmarklet method, as it's low user overhead; just does the job and gets out of your way.

I have 73k bookmarks on my instance, which other sass sites sometimes aren't optimized for, and can be sluggish while filtering searching etc.. (users normally have around 5k)

I can add detail for a docker build if desired, but the build from source is pretty straightforward.

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Sir, where have you been? I've been looking for exactly this, a self-hosted pinboard clone. A look and feel like miniflux [1] - there's something timeless about it. I also appreciate the public frontend. This looks like a great project. Have you sensed a need to add postgres/mysql support or perhaps that's overkill? Any plans to implement archiving?

I would love details on a docker build for my own homelab. I don't know Haskell, but perhaps it's time to tinker with something new.

[1]: https://miniflux.app/

Thanks! I agree minimal is best.

SQLite's been excellent. Postgres wouldn't be hard to switch to in the future but I don't think I need it yet.

My initial need was met by delegating archiving to http://archive.li . Click the green checkbox next to the bookmark to access the archived page . While not a full mirror, I like having them as the permanent custodian.

I'll probably work on getting a release up that doesn't require a build from source such as docker or bits pretty soon.

also, let's be honest - the kinds of folks running self hosted software are devs and techies, and no one in the open source self hosted space is feeding their family on these tools.

In that context open source should be like a bazaar where we share ideas and compete a bit, and see what works, and learn from each other. Let a thousand flowers bloom; we aren't talking about seed rounds here.