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

  • beta_tester@lemmy.mlEnglish
    643·
    11 months ago

    Cool app at first glance!

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

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          272·
          11 months ago

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

          • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
            35·
            11 months ago

            You can link them together at least that’s how the discord and matrix chats are for our instance are. I can chat from discord and get replies from people in matrix

            • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
              81·
              11 months ago

              Ah, I was not aware of a way to bridge two channels/servers entirely. I know there are bots that people use to bridge their user accounts though.

              If it is fully seamless? Sure. But I don’t know why you are bothering then. But if it adds a “Bot” tag or any other hoops, you are still just making a worse experience for everyone. We ran into this back in the IRC days all the time.

          • astraeus@programming.devEnglish
            8·
            11 months ago

            You can create a webhook in Discord and in Matrix that will share messages in channels back and forth

        • Sanguine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          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

        • lemon_nade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • beta_tester@lemmy.mlEnglish
            41·
            11 months ago

            Are you talking about crawlers not being able to index matrix messenges?

            It’s not a website, there’s no chat that’s being indexed by crawlers, afaik.

            You could index them if you wanted.

            A chat is meant to be ephemeral. Unlike with a forum where it is a goal to have long lasting information sharing.

            Usually you want to things for a project, one forum and one chat. The chat is more informal and not meant to replace a proper forum. You can basically chit chat in a chat but not in a forum.

            • shotgun_crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              8·
              11 months ago

              The problem is many people are using them like forums, so a lot of potentially useful info is lost (which is more of an user issue than anything else)

            • Fredol@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              That’s the problem, discussions should happen on the open web, not hidden in chatrooms

              • beta_tester@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                There’s nothijg hidden on matrix. You can verify yourself, go to the space of Nextcloud, GNOME, KDE, OPENSUSE, FEDORA, flatpak, neo store, libretube, etc. Nothing is hidden.

                • Fredol@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  it’s not literally hidden, but it’s not easily searchable because since it’s a chat, it’s not indexable on search engines. A forum is a better solution to avoid the same questions being asked 1000x and to expose great solutions and advices.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      174·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • denast@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      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