Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

[jedberg]

We've come full circle. :)

First there was del.icio.us.

Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting".

And now we're back to del.icio.us!

[selcuka]

> Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting".

I believe the original "del.icio.us with voting" was Digg [1]:

> Digg also faces competition from other social news services like Reddit, Newsvine, and Netscape, and while none of them has gotten to Digg’s level, it’s still early in the social news race.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230150/http://www.conver...

[toastercat]

Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just degrade. I need to know I can migrate easily once it happens.

[pitzips]

linkding hit the spot for me. self hosted with simple API. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

[TenJack]

May be worth checking out Bookmark OS (https://bookmarkos.com). Been around for 8 years and I am continuing to add features!

[tuananh]

pinboard.in has been around for quite awhile :)

[joshuajill]

There is Shaarli and Wallabag (archives pages to read later) Both open source and self hostable.

[keithnz]

maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?

[omoikane]

I remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name quickly and build their reputation there, instead of adding confusion to cURL's name.

[tempodox]

Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.

[quickthrower2]

    curl -io currl.io currl.io

[bsnnkv]

Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them.

In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me.

These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I found something interesting (without the context of what that something was).

There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as it does to me.

[1]: Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765

[entropie]

I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to bookmark pages but it also downloads image/videos/gfycats and saves them on the server.

[1] https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks

[newswasboring]

It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do something to make clear what is a link.

I am on mobile, using the brave browser.

[qwertox]

I'd like to see custom css support, like a field to input it, so that I could have one link per line, all very compact.

[criswell]

give me apache directory listing styled websites or give me death

[mnsc]

I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!

[ibz]

pinboard.in still rocking!

[ssss11]

I came to write this but you beat me. Kudos :D I loved that site

[nittanymount]

a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove some concern... - as the name implied, if you could provide a terminal cli, that will be a plus too.. my 2c...

[vasanthv]

That is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks

[jrm4]

First of all, this is a great url. In my head it's like

"Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"

[Minor49er]

Simple and straightforward. I like it

Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

[vasanthv]

Thank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.

[wopwops]

Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.

[the-printer]

The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.

[joshuajill]

Had my share of free beer for eternity.

[joshuajill]

That said, like the barebones design.

[Leires]

Not for me, but good luck.

[kleicht]

what is the popularity metric ?

[mwachs]

del.icio.us is back!

[syngrog66]

bad name