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Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀

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Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 - Lemmy.World

Hello everybody, Daniel here! We’re excited to be back with some new updates that we believe the community will love! As always before we start, we’d like to express our sincere thanks to all of our Cloud [https://linkwarden.app/#pricing?utm_source=Lemmy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2_7_announcement] subscription users. Your support is crucial to our growth and allows us to continue improving. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey. 🚀 ## What’s New? — ### 🛠️ Code Refactoring and Optimization The first thing you’ll notice here is that Linkwarden is now faster and more efficient.[^1] And also the data now loads a skeleton placeholder while fetching the data instead of saying “you have no links”, making the app feel more responsive. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2cb06878-ca0c-471b-863e-e8b108f42b49.jpeg] ### 🌐 Added More Translations Thanks to the collaborators, we’ve added Chinese and French translations to Linkwarden. If you’d like to help us translate Linkwarden into your language, check out #216 [https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/216]. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/561fad10-9eb3-4a36-b2bb-af0d3dce6cf4.jpeg] ### ✅ And more… Check out the full changelog below. Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.6.2...v2.7.0 [https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.6.2...v2.7.0] -------- If you like what we’re doing, you can support the project by either starring ⭐️ the repo to make it more visible to others or by subscribing to the Cloud plan (which helps the project, a lot). Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts! Website: https://linkwarden.app [https://linkwarden.app/?utm_source=Lemmy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2_7_announcement] GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden [https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden] Read the blog: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.7 [https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.7?utm_source=Lemmy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=v2_7_announcement] [^1]: This took a lot more work than it should have since we had to refactor the whole server-side state management to use react-query instead of Zustand.

7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80 Aug 16, 2024

I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!

I do have some feature requests – is GitHub the best place to submit those?

daniel31x13 Aug 16, 2024

Glad you like it! Yes GitHub is the place the community requests new features/enhancements.

Avid Amoeba Aug 16, 2024

Has anyone compared its page archiving feature to ArchiveBox?

Grunt4019 Aug 17, 2024

I haven’t used archivebox, but I tried setting it up. And I will say linkwarden gets a lot of points for easy setup in use. I’m sure it’s probably not as powerful as archive box but it gets the job done for basic use.

d_ohlin Aug 19, 2024

Archivebox gets my vote, only because despite how much I’d love to switch to Linkwarden there seems to be no viable way to schedule importing of something like bookmarks. With Archivebox, I can relatively easily set it up such that every night any new bookmarks I’ve added automagically get archived. This is works perfectly for my use case. I put a LW GitHub issue/request in for something similar a long while back but didn’t get any responses so I’m guessing that’s just not a priority…which is totally fine, it definitely seems to be great software if it fits your use case :)

Avid Amoeba Aug 19, 2024

Doesn’t Linkwarden play the role of the bookmarks manager? Doesn’t/can’t it save all that’s bookmarked in it?

d_ohlin Aug 19, 2024

Sure, maybe that’s the intended purpose/workflow. I feel like back when I tried it there was something about the general workflow that I didn’t like, but honestly it could have just been something as simple as me and an “old habits die hard” sort of thing, lol.

Avid Amoeba Aug 19, 2024

Makes sense. I currently have ArchiveBox setup but it doesn’t automatically save anything. I was thinking about getting it to save bookmarks. I guess I’ll setup Linkwarden to try out the workflow too.

d_ohlin Aug 20, 2024

So I went back and played around with LW to see what all has changed since I last looked at it, and I finally remembered what the fatal “flaw” was for me previously workflow-wise. The reason I’ve come to always rely so heavily on my bookmarking links approach is because it’s just a couple dead simple clicks, and more importantly it works identically everywhere - desktop, mobile, etc. doesn’t matter. The workflow is 100% identical everywhere with no additional apps or anything extra required. Having to open a PWA (or even a separate app if it were native) when I’m on my phone just to save a link is a few more clicks and I didn’t want to have to change up my workflow based on what device I happened to be on at the time I found something.

However, since I last trialed LW I have made a real hard personal push to switch over to Firefox as my dedicated browser, and while there’s a few things I don’t like as much the ability to run extensions even on mobile is positively amazing. The LW one appears to not be compatible officially, but with a little persuasion appears to work just fine…and if that continues working then I could totally see myself switching over to this! Still poking and prodding and trialing it out, but fingers crossed!

Avid Amoeba Aug 20, 2024

Oh yes, this totally makes sense without an extension on mobile. Thanks for the update!

Avid Amoeba Aug 19, 2024

One more Q - is your ArchiveBox setup able to save pages that require login? E.g. paywalled news articles that you have subscriptions for, some other stuff behind auth?

d_ohlin Aug 19, 2024

Nope it is not…if I’m completely honest my archivebox instance feels like it could tip over and die if I go tweaking much stuff at any given time lol, but as long as it’s running and I don’t touch it it seems to run well.

My workflow might be sort of stupid lol but 98% of what I bookmark is more just for professional documentation or tutorials or personal research or handy links or etc. that I’ve come across. In other words, rarely locked behind login, and rarely critical. Half the time it’s helpful when sites go offline, but honestly half the time it just functions as if I ever Google search an issue I know I’ve seen before but can’t remember how to fix, then if I see a page I land on bookmarked already then I know it was a good help to me in the past…that sort of thing. Nothing crazy and I’m sure there are better processes out there, but it’s just a basic and simple process that works for me.

Showroom7561 Aug 16, 2024

Looking forward to this new build. Since the last update, none of my links generate Preserved Formats, which makes the service useless. Hopefully, this is fixed.

daniel31x13 Aug 16, 2024

Strange, could you please open an issue on GitHub if the problem persisted?

Showroom7561 Aug 16, 2024

I will try, but on a whim I just created a new user in linkwarden and that seems to be generating my selected profiles. I’ll wait until I can try 2.7.x before I gather data for a report.

TheRealCharlesEames Aug 16, 2024

Can this seamlessly replace my Safari Read Later?

vzq Aug 17, 2024

It depends on what you mean by seamlessly. I have the Safari bookmarklet menu thingy on iOS and it works great.

jaxiiruff Aug 16, 2024

Prefer linkding due to its straightforward setup (no complicated seperate database) but glad Linkwarden is doing well

N0x0n Aug 17, 2024

I like linkding alot for it’s simplicity, but can’t the hell of me make a good/clean instance… It gets messy very quickly if you save some interesting links which are not directly connected to something or if you have 2 different subjects in the same instance.

Something like group tagging would make alot of sense :/

ArchRecord Aug 16, 2024

How have I never heard of this before!? I’ve been looking for exactly this for ages now.

Already spinning up a docker container!

atzanteol Aug 16, 2024

I’ve been waiting for “Create common.json” and “refactor collection store”!

jqubed Aug 16, 2024

Question I’ve been meaning to ask: if I start with cloud can I move to self-hosted later? I’ve seen this before and it feels like a product I could make good use of, especially for getting tabs closed.

daniel31x13 Aug 16, 2024

Yes, you can export your data pretty easily in settings.

fmstrat Aug 17, 2024

But…does it still just save a big cookie popup?

ITGuyLevi Aug 17, 2024

Just wanted to say thanks for some awesome software! I want to use it for centralizing my bookmarks across devices, but if I’m being honest its main use has been Microsoft Learn bookmarks. It’s insanely useful being able to save an article, add tags, then when MS changes their docs, I can prove to myself that it really was different last week.

vzq Aug 17, 2024

I’m using it 99% for recipes. But, I haven’t lost a recipe since I started using it!

mmhmm Sep 20, 2024

I hate that your example is the reason I’m standing link warden up. Sometimes ms leaves me thinking I’ve gone mad

ITGuyLevi Sep 21, 2024

Its painful sometimes, but good to know I’m not the only one questioning my sanity.

JustMarkov Aug 17, 2024

Is there any plans on native mobile app? I am allergic to PWAs. Overall, good job!

Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Aug 17, 2024

Yes: github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/246

Feature Request: Android/iOS App · Issue #246 · linkwarden/linkwarden

Dear Linkwarden team, I am an avid user of your bookmark and archive service, and I have found it an invaluable tool in my day to day workflow. However, lately, I have found myself increasingly bro...

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Goodtoknow Aug 17, 2024

I thought the whole point was it for to be compatible with Bitwarden and their apps and extensions

Wolfram Aug 17, 2024

Thanks for your work! I moved when I could finally import Wallabag bookmarks, and I’m loving everything so far.

vzq Aug 17, 2024

All self-hostable software should do single sign-on the way Linkwarden does.

If you are wondering whether or how to support OIDC or SAML or other SSO, look no further for inspiration.

bitfucker Aug 18, 2024

Can you give the gist of it?

vzq Aug 18, 2024

It’s really well documented and easy to config. You just open the page for your IDP, follow the instructions, set a few config setting and you’re off.

The user interface is also really good at this. Often custom identity providers feel hacked on, here it’s integrated really well.

I believe the implementation is based on nextauth.js

bitfucker Aug 18, 2024

I see. I’ve skimmed the docs and indeed see that it supports a lot of IDP with what looks to me some env var. And thanks for answering another question of what their auth library is since that is a lot to support.

recklessengagement Aug 18, 2024

I need to try this, it looks great!

d_ohlin Aug 19, 2024

@[email protected] It’s been a while since I played around with Linkwarden, so I figured I’d re-trial/subscribe to the cloud version to see what’s changed. After logging in and entering my payment info, I’m immediately thrown to this screen regardless of what browser (Chrome/FF), mode (normal/incognito), public IP (work, home, Verizon LTE) I use. Can you help please? Definitely don’t want to end up paying for something because I can’t even get in to cancel my account. Thoughts?