Mastodawn

I just spent hours shaving a yak while trying to get a self-hosted bookmark manager / archiver set up in Docker on our NAS. Worked my way through all the various setup issues (my first time using Docker, Syno's utility makes it both easier and harder), and the damn thing failed during first user registration with a database error. That there's already an open issue for in GitHub. From 2022. 😠

Computers were a mistake.

In related news, anyone successfully self-hosting a bookmark solution similar to [Unmark](https://unmark.it)?

#OpenSource #Fail #FML

Unmark - The to do app for bookmarks.

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viharm Nov 22

@llorenzin

i have an instance of #xBrowserSync running for a few years. The project hasn't seen much change, but it works for me.

I think there's another project which uses Nextcloud as backend (can't remember the name).

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Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)

@viharm I'm glad xBrowserSync is working well for you!
I looked at that before trying to install Unmark, but it appears to be abandonware at this point (https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/issues/517), so I didn't want to go down that road.
At least with Unmark it looked like the repo was being somewhat maintained, so I thought it would be a better bet. I added a comment to that issue from 2022 to see if there's anything I can do to work around it.
(At the end of the day, it's free, open source code - I have no reason to expect a specific problem to be solved in any timely fashion in someone else's side project. I was just hoping it might work on the first try, since it really is exactly what I want for bookmark management...)

is xBrowserSync discontinued? · Issue #517 · xbrowsersync/app

I can't install xBrowserSync in Chrome anymore, and Edge is also warning that it will stop working in the future. Is this discontinued? What are the alternatives you have found? Please share. Regards.

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