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NikkiA
820, but before I last ran a 'does this site still exist' script on them all, it was somewhere around 2200.
tanaylakhani
Stacks runs that script for you on auto - every month.
quickthrower2
You wouldn't necessarily want to lose broken bookmarks. Metadata might be useful. They might be in an online archive. And you might be able to search for the link to find people who link to it for associated information.
NikkiA
Exactly, I use scripts to flag them up, and then manually appraise whether it's important enough to replace with an archive.org link, search to see if the data has shifted elsewhere (douglas self's site has gone through many such transformations in my bookmarks since the mid-90s) or just delete it.
tanaylakhani
True that. Just mark something as broken. Just in case, that website needs to have some metadata or notes even after it’s dead
guilhas
10000+

Everyday

Many times researching things I get hundred tabs open, and no time to collate the relevant results, I just bookmark everything into unsorted

Then on repeated visits I give them some tags

Also use extension to highlight bookmarks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/bookmark-high...

Any kind of better bookmark management is definetly welcome

tanaylakhani
That’s great! Would you be open to test Stacks’ search engine integration and see if it is useful for you?
andreybleme
The link points to a blog post. I think it should redirect to betterstacks.com to be a good "Show HN" post.
mdwalters
None, at least on my personal Firefox account, where on my school account on Chrome, it's somewhere between 25 and 40, haven't checked for years now.
go_discover
For work, I have everything bookmarked. Without bookmarks, how do you go quickly to the things you need?
nektro
i use my bookmarks religiously. disabled google autocomplete in my browser as well as history and made it so autocomplete only fills from my bookmarks
argo_navis
I stopped using bookmarks when I discovered "Tabs Outliner" extension for Chrome, and now I can't imagine using any browser that doesn't work like that. It automatically saves your browser sessions as you go, you can name them and close and return to it at any time, without having to remember to update your bookmarks or save anything. I can't really do it justice in a sentence or two, but it's great.