Wesley Moore4d ago

With Mozilla announcing they're shutting down Pocket I thought I'd mention that for a while I've been working on a little bookmarking web-app called Readlynx. It will be open-source and self-hosted, but I hope to look into providing hosted instances in the future.

It's a single binary to download and run, which I'm hoping will make it super easy to get started. If this interests you, follow me or the #readlynx hash tag for updates. 1/2

#Pocket

Show threadWesley Moore
The layout and styling is still a work in progress, so don't get too hung up on that. It's a regular server-rendered web app implemented in Rust using SQLite as the database. For testing I've loaded 1.6M HN stories into it, which is what's depicted in the screenshot in the previous toot. Tags are currently randomly assigned from a set when importing the HN stories, so they will look off in the screenshot. 2/2
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Wesley Moore4d ago

With Mozilla announcing they're shutting down Pocket I thought I'd mention that for a while I've been working on a little bookmarking web-app called Readlynx. It will be open-source and self-hosted, but I hope to look into providing hosted instances in the future.

It's a single binary to download and run, which I'm hoping will make it super easy to get started. If this interests you, follow me or the #readlynx hash tag for updates. 1/2

#Pocket

Show threadWesley Moore4d ago
The layout and styling is still a work in progress, so don't get too hung up on that. It's a regular server-rendered web app implemented in Rust using SQLite as the database. For testing I've loaded 1.6M HN stories into it, which is what's depicted in the screenshot in the previous toot. Tags are currently randomly assigned from a set when importing the HN stories, so they will look off in the screenshot. 2/2
Show threadJeff Martin4d ago
@wezm this does look pretty interesting. I'll keep an eye on it.
Show threadvruz4d ago

@wezm

Del.icio.us!!

Show threadWesley Moore4d ago
@vruz yeah it has an API derived from Delicious (via Linkhut and Pinboard)
Show threadblabaere4d ago
@wezm Wait, they did WHAT !? 🤬
Being able to bookmark and store new web pages is all well and nice but the emergency is how do I save the library they plan to burn ?
Show threadWesley Moore4d ago
@blabaere if by library you mean your own bookmarks, there is an export available: https://getpocket.com/export
Pocket: Log In

Show threadblabaere4d ago

@wezm Thank you very much sir, that will buy me some time to find where to put those. Ideally I'd want a place where to store the content of each page, not just the link.
99% of it is raw text, but if you loose the formatting and the picture, significant value still goes away too ...

[insert picture of old man yelling at cloud here]

Show threadblabaere2d ago

@wezm
Apparently, Pocket used to have its own URL shortener and the export contain these shortened URLs. Which obviously don't work anymore.

[Yelling old man comes back with a red chainsaw]

Show threadWesley Moore2d ago
@blabaere oh wow, what a failure.
Show threadAbhinav 🌏4d ago
@wezm This is great! Will ReadLynx be compatible with FeedLynx? Will you keep maintaining FeedLynx extensions?
Show threadWesley Moore4d ago
@abnv They are separate things, so not really much scope for compatibility. I built Feedlynx to be extremely minimal: no db, no tags, no web UI. Readlynx is in the same family, but is something of a superset in that it adds a web UI, tags, db, search etc. You could replace Feedlynx with Readlynx (by having a watch-later tag and subscribing to that tag's feed). I plan to continue maintaining both.
Show threadAbhinav 🌏4d ago
@wezm Thank you. I wish you good luck.