Today, we're excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.13! 𼳠This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.
For those who are new to Linkwarden, itâs basically a tool to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve webpages, articles, and documents, all in one place. Itâs great for bookmarking stuff to read later, and you can also share your resources, create public collections, and collaborate with your team. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud subscription or you can self-host it on your own server.
This release brings a range of updates to make your bookmarking and archiving experience even smoother. Letâs take a look:
Whatâs new:
đˇď¸ New Tag Management Page
We added a dedicated page where you can view, sort, add, bulk merge, and bulk delete you Tags, all in one place.
âď¸ Compact Sidebar
You can now shrink the sidebar for a more compact and minimal look.
đ Bug fixes and Optimizations
This release comes with many bug fixes, security fixes, and optimizations that's recommended for all users.
â And more...
There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.12.2...v2.13.0
Want to skip the technical setup?
If youâd rather skip server setup and maintenance, our Cloud Plan takes care of everything for you. Itâs a great way to access all of Linkwardenâs featuresâplus future updatesâwithout the technical overhead.
We hope you enjoy these new enhancements, and as always, we'd like to express our sincere thanks to all of our supporters and contributors. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in shaping Linkwarden into what it is today. đ
Also, the Official Mobile App for iOS and Android are coming very soon! Follow us on Mastodon, Twitter (X), and Bluesky for the latest updates.
So if you self host this you still have to pay a monthly subscription fee to even use it?
Nope, self-hosting is 100% free :)
You might want to change your website then, because it doesn't say that anywhere. Like.....anywhere at all. Subscription costs are mentioned literally everywhere that you look for anything to do with installing/setting it up.
Not a single mention of being able to self-host it without a subscription on here your homepage, https://linkwarden.app/, but a mention of self-hosting with a subscription cost attached.
Edit: Oh I finally see one that doesn't mention a subscription! Under self hosting in that last screenshot, long after the "getting started" and "billing and subscription" sections lol. If this wasn't intentional (it most likely is), it's extremely bad UX.
Come on, They build this stuff open source, so that you can self host it completely free of charge.
Advertising their own paid infrastructure to counterfinance development is a no brainer
Yet they donât mention anywhere that you can self host it free of charge, so for people who have never heard of it before have no way of knowing that you can. Not only that, but the only mention of self hosting says you still have to pay!
Itâs deceptive.