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detaro
Interesting, although after reading the first bullet point ("Minimalist design (simple is beautiful)") looking at the screenshots was ... surprising ;)
petercooper
Definitely not as featureful as something like this, but when Delicious started to go down the pan I switched to a simple Ruby script and a Dropbox-synced data file between all my machines. Several years in, it's still working a treat! "Dropbox + simple script" seems to be a great mechanism for many apps if you don't need easy public access.
voltagex_
I've finally switched to pinboard.in - the browser addons are definitely not as good, though.
sampl
Also a pinboard user--it's fast, minimal, and reliable. Definitely recommended.
mullingitover
Pinboard is great, the bookmarklet is the only addon I need. It's got one of the best tech communities out there, and it's basically del.icio.us in its heyday. Thank you, Maciej.
voltagex_
Ever tried to pin something on github.com? All the major browsers have disabled bookmarklets that conflict with content security policies.
mullingitover
I can't recall ever having a problem pinning stuff from github. Just to sanity check my own memory, I tried it just now. It worked fine.

edit: and this was using the 'popup with tags' bookmarklet from pinboard's howto page [1]

[1] https://pinboard.in/howto/

cschmidt
I think it is a browser specific bug. I use Firefox, and it doesn't work.
vardhanw
Looks a lot like Diigo which I am using nowadays. Any advantages to pinboard?
jtth
I believe these are called "bookmarks."
orblivion
Next question is one of federation (delicious, after all, works as a search engine because of multiple user input). It would be really cool to see a world where all these roll-your-own things are starting to connect.
reitoei
RSS?
orblivion
That's good for following, but not searching the world.

By contrast, somehow, Mediagoblin intends to federate in a searchable manner, as I understand. But, I don't know how that's going to work.

fweespeech
If you are interested in drawing attention, I'd suggest maybe hosting a cheap demo version on like a $5 DO instance for people to play with. ;)
anjanb
After leaving delicious, I've been using google bookmarks(https://www.google.co.in/bookmarks/). Isn't anyone else using it ? If anyone has tried using google bookmarks, how would you compare it with pinboard.in ?
benoliver999
I used this for a long time and really liked it. It's very easy to set up and works great.
mrgris
sorry but Shaarly is the best choice, free, secure, légé, taxonomy, rss feeds and private bookmarks by tag. And a simple shared hosting is enough.