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

We&#x27;ve come full circle. :)<p>First there was del.icio.us.<p>Then reddit was started with the original idea being &quot;del.icio.us with voting&quot;.<p>And now we&#x27;re back to del.icio.us!

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.

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

Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it&#x27;s such a joy to work on them.<p>In general though, I&#x27;ve moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn&#x27;t really serve a purpose for me.<p>These days I save highlights and store the links&#x2F;books&#x2F;locations as metadata, because I&#x27;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).<p>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.<p>[1]: Previous discussions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33978500" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33978500</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33627603" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33627603</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33556765" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33556765</a>

I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to bookmark pages but it also downloads image&#x2F;videos&#x2F;gfycats and saves them on the server.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wecoso.de&#x2F;bloogmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wecoso.de&#x2F;bloogmarks</a>

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.<p>I am on mobile, using the brave browser.

I&#x27;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.

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

a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service&#x2F;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...

First of all, this is a great url. In my head it&#x27;s like<p>&quot;Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this&quot;

Simple and straightforward. I like it<p>Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

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

The community at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ln.ht" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ln.ht</a> is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.

Had my share of free beer for eternity.

Not for me, but good luck.

what is the popularity metric ?

del.icio.us is back!

bad name