Greetings everyone! Daniel here, I’ve been working on Linkwarden part-time over the past few months.

Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages.

Key features:

  • 📸 Preserve webpages as Screenshot, PDF, etc. So you can access them even if they are taken down.
  • 👥 Collaborative, so you can share your collections with your friends and colleagues. You can also make them public and share them with the world.
  • 📱 Designed for every screen size, from widescreen monitors down to smartphones.
  • ⚡️ Open source and fully self-hostable!
  • ✨ And so many more features! (Literally, just didn’t want to make this post too long. Check out the Github repo and Website for more info…)

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).

Things like mobile app (PWA) are already on the project roadmap and I’m so excited to share them with you in the future.

Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts!

Website: https://linkwarden.app

GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

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Cool app at first glance!

I always wonder why some open source projects choose discord and not matrix?

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34 points

Matrix is cool but its user base is not there yet.

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72 points

Then stop driving people to discord alone, at least use both so there’s an option

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25 points

So… split the user (and support) base while invariably emphasizing the shortcomings of Matrix?

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14 points

By that logic, why are you on lemmy?

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3 points

And I’m on matrix too, but I’m just an individual. If I were trying to advertise my project I’d probably use discord / reddit as well tbh

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20 points

Discord and matrix are not searchable, they shouldn’t be used at all

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That’s a client issue, not a protocol issue

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not a protocol issue

It is. There’s no way for search engines to join all the servers and index them all, thus there’s no way to efficiently find information on them without already being there.

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Matrix is a terrible experience, honestly. It’s incredibly slow and their “servers” don’t really function as a community as much as a series of chat groups. I’m not fond of opening my chat app and then staring at it for 10-15 seconds while it loads all the new messages. And yes, I’ve tried different servers.

Discord is feature-rich. And now has the option to submit posts, which drastically increases usability and searchability. But it does have a big problem with privacy and ads.

Projects like this are much better suited for something like Gitlab.

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6 points

matrix.org works just fine. Nowadays, the experience is as good as on any other chat app

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1 point

Element is the thing that’s subpar (to be generous) compared to other chat apps. Element X is better for the features that have been implemented, but the current feature set is very incomplete.

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Beg to differ. Not all of us want to be Beta_testers

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2 points

Element on iOS is absolutely, definitely, slow!

Desktop is better or worse or the same?

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1 point

Pretty much the same

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13 points

I wonder why they don’t just set up a forum

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5 points

Perhaps they could create a community on programming.dev

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9 points

I think Matrix suffers from some issues with large communities, for instance Graphene OS has already had to abandon 2-3 of their main group chats due to same bug and last time I checked (2-3 months ago) there has even been talks of switching to Discord. That is, just in case, a community of some of the most diehard privacy nerds btw

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probably because Discord is more widespread than Matrix

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Even cooler page to sell you on the app. Very smooth gifs

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Gifs are the USP

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