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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, it’s basically a tool to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve webpages, articles, and documents, all in one place. It’s 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. Let’s take a look:

What’s new:

🏷️ 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.

tag management page

⚙️ Compact Sidebar

You can now shrink the sidebar for a more compact and minimal look.

🐞 Bug fixes and Optimizations

This release comes with many bug fixes, security fixes, and optimizations that's recommended for all users.

✅ 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 you’d rather skip server setup and maintenance, our Cloud Plan takes care of everything for you. It’s a great way to access all of Linkwarden’s features—plus future updates—without 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. 🚀

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.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love how active the development on Linkwarden is. I still have all of my stuff in wallabag, but Linkwarden is tempting. I gave the hosted trial a try a few weeks ago, but my wallabag export was too big to import. Maybe I'll try selfhosting it and manually increasing the max upload size this time.

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! We might bump the import limit sometime soon, how large is the file you're trying to import?

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago

My JSON export from wallabag is 46 megabytes. That's for 2,465 articles.

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If I log into a paywalled site, can i read paywalled things later?

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. It archives a copy of the page locally that you have access to forever.

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's cool. Instapaper can't do that. Thx.

Is it possible to transfer those files to kobo reader (convert to epub).

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Not that I know of. I still use wallabag just for my “read it later on kobo” button.

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yes, but you'll need to either upload the webpage using SingleFile or use our official Browser Extension.

This looks great! Yet another container for our poor home server.

[–] hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can anyone help explain the use case for this? Why would someone want/need a dedicated app for bookmarks vs just using the built in browser bookmarking?

I've always used Firefox but have never thought to myself that I needed bookmarks in a different app entirely. What am I missing?

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's a replacement for Read It Later/Pocket/Instapaper.

Saves websites offline, with full copies/reading view/pdf.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

That tool also saves a copy of the website. But I also do not use the browser bookmarks and a tool, that only syncs bookmarks. And that is the reason: syncing, so I have all the bookmarks on all devices.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I didn't either, but I started using floccus and syncing my bookmarks across my 2 computers and phone. In a pinch it works great for those obscure websites I don't frequently visit.

[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I’ve been looking for a way to self host a bookmark manager so I can sync bookmarks (favorites / links) across all devices. Sounds like Linkwarden might be overkill for me, but can it do that if I’m ok with overkill?

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

You can disable preservation and sync Linkwarden with your browser bookmarks using Floccus and it can serve you as a regular bookmark manager.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just an FYI that this seems to require a monthly subscription fee, even for self-hosting.

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No it doesnt. It leans that way on the official site but self hosters tend to use github or similar rather than official websites.

Source: Been self hosting it for months for free (I intend to donate to Linkwarden when I do my next round of self host/FOSS donations)

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I’ve just seen that, pretty dodgy on their part if you ask me. Going by their website it’s impossible to use it without paying, they even say that self hosting has a subscription cost.

GitHub is usually where you get linked to from official websites.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 1 points 3 days ago

Yep, that's exactly what this is for. You use Linkwarden to bookmark things, though -- it's not for your browser bookmarks. But there's a browser extension, so you're still just clicking one button to bookmark things. And you can export your browser bookmarks and then import them in Linkwarden.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So if you self host this you still have to pay a monthly subscription fee to even use it?

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope, self-hosting is 100% free :)

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] dengtav@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 2 days ago

Yet they don’t 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!

It’s deceptive.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can see from the screenshot they still haven’t fixed the title text being cut off in each bookmark.

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey there! The screenshot was cropped, not sure which part you're talking about

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Each bookmark card does not make enough room for the title of each bookmark, so they’re cut off with an ellipses at the end. The readability while looking over your bookmarks is pretty bad as a result. Like after a certain point that’s unavoidable, but it doesn’t help that the spacing and margins in each card are excessive.

KaraKeep uses a similar card layout and handles it much better as a counter example.

[–] daniel31x13@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, you can adjust the view to your preference.