Hello everybody, Daniel here!
We're excited to be back with some new updates that we believe the community will love!
As always before we start, weβd like to express our sincere thanks to all of our Cloud subscription users. Your support is crucial to our growth and allows us to continue improving. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey. π
What's New?
π οΈ Code Refactoring and Optimization
The first thing you'll notice here is that Linkwarden is now faster and more efficient.[^1] And also the data now loads a skeleton placeholder while fetching the data instead of saying "you have no links", making the app feel more responsive.
π Added More Translations
Thanks to the collaborators, we've added Chinese and French translations to Linkwarden. If you'd like to help us translate Linkwarden into your language, check out #216.
β And more...
Check out the full changelog below.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.6.2...v2.7.0
If you like what weβre doing, you can support the project by either starring βοΈ the repo to make it more visible to others or by subscribing to the Cloud plan (which helps the project, a lot).
Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts!
Website: https://linkwarden.app
GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
Read the blog: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.7
[^1]: This took a lot more work than it should have since we had to refactor the whole server-side state management to use react-query instead of Zustand.
Has anyone compared its page archiving feature to ArchiveBox?
I havenβt used archivebox, but I tried setting it up. And I will say linkwarden gets a lot of points for easy setup and use. Iβm sure itβs probably not as powerful as archive box but it gets the job done for basic use.
Archivebox gets my vote, only because despite how much I'd love to switch to Linkwarden there seems to be no viable way to schedule importing of something like bookmarks. With Archivebox, I can relatively easily set it up such that every night any new bookmarks I've added automagically get archived. This is works perfectly for my use case. I put a LW GitHub issue/request in for something similar a long while back but didn't get any responses so I'm guessing that's just not a priority...which is totally fine, it definitely seems to be great software if it fits your use case :)
LW definitely wins in the initial setup department without a doubt - I noticed that for the ~30 min or so I played around with it.
Doesn't Linkwarden play the role of the bookmarks manager? Doesn't/can't it save all that's bookmarked in it?
Sure, maybe that's the intended purpose/workflow. I feel like back when I tried it there was something about the general workflow that I didn't like, but honestly it could have just been something as simple as me and an "old habits die hard" sort of thing, lol. I'm honestly so engrained in the 'bookmark this for saving and the built-in cross-computer sync will make it available in a specific spot on each of the 3-4 PC's I use all the time" that it could have just been that for me Β―_(γ)_/Β―
One more Q - is your ArchiveBox setup able to save pages that require login? E.g. paywalled news articles that you have subscriptions for, some other stuff behind auth?
Nope it is not...if I'm completely honest my archivebox instance feels like it could tip over and die if I go tweaking much stuff at any given time lol, but as long as it's running and I don't touch it it seems to run well.
My workflow might be sort of stupid lol but 98% of what I bookmark is more just for professional documentation or tutorials or personal research or handy links or etc. that I've come across. In other words, rarely locked behind login, and rarely critical. Half the time it's helpful when sites go offline, but honestly half the time it just functions as if I ever Google search an issue I know I've seen before but can't remember how to fix, then if I see a page I land on bookmarked already then I know it was a good help to me in the past...that sort of thing. Nothing crazy and I'm sure there are better processes out there, but it's just a basic and simple process that works for me.
Makes sense. I currently have ArchiveBox setup but it doesn't automatically save anything. I was thinking about getting it to save bookmarks. I guess I'll setup Linkwarden to try out the workflow too.
So I went back and played around with LW to see what all has changed since I last looked at it, and I finally remembered what the fatal "flaw" was for me previously workflow-wise. The reason I've come to always rely so heavily on my bookmarking links approach is because it's just a couple dead simple clicks, and more importantly it works identically everywhere - desktop, mobile, etc. doesn't matter. The workflow is 100% identical everywhere with no additional apps or anything extra required. Having to open a PWA (or even a separate app if it were native) when I'm on my phone just to save a link is a few more clicks and I didn't want to have to change up my workflow based on what device I happened to be on at the time I found something.
However, since I last trialed LW I have made a real hard personal push to switch over to Firefox as my dedicated browser, and while there's a few things I don't like as much the ability to run extensions even on mobile is positively amazing. The LW one appears to not be compatible officially, but with a little persuasion appears to work just fine...and if that continues working then I could totally see myself switching over to this! Still poking and prodding and trialing it out, but fingers crossed!
Oh yes, this totally makes sense without an extension on mobile. Thanks for the update!