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

by vasanthvon 5/2/2023, 12:09 PMwith 48 comments

by jedbergon 5/2/2023, 5:56 PM

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!

by keb_on 5/2/2023, 2:10 PM

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.

by keithnzon 5/2/2023, 1:17 PM

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

by bsnnkvon 5/2/2023, 7:33 PM

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

by entropieon 5/2/2023, 1:52 PM

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

by newswasboringon 5/2/2023, 1:17 PM

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.

by qwertoxon 5/2/2023, 1:49 PM

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.

by mnscon 5/2/2023, 12:40 PM

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

by nittanymounton 5/2/2023, 2:19 PM

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...

by jrm4on 5/2/2023, 2:50 PM

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

"Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"

by Minor49eron 5/2/2023, 5:54 PM

Simple and straightforward. I like it

Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

by wopwopson 5/2/2023, 7:29 PM

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

by the-printeron 5/2/2023, 10:34 PM

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

by joshuajillon 5/2/2023, 4:22 PM

Had my share of free beer for eternity.

by Leireson 5/2/2023, 1:40 PM

Not for me, but good luck.

by kleichton 5/3/2023, 12:17 PM

what is the popularity metric ?

by mwachson 5/2/2023, 4:08 PM

del.icio.us is back!

by syngrog66on 5/3/2023, 8:25 PM

bad name