It was a surprise when I installed Linkwarden last night, imported over 4000 bookmarks collected over >20 years and then discovered this morning that there were (and growing) 12 GB of data on my Truenas. This explains why my VM crashed last night and ran out of space. It looks like the default setting creats and image, a PDF and an HTML version of every single page 12GB/4000=3MB each sounds about right, although we’ll see when/where this stops. So this was the first thing that put me off. Here are a few others:

a) unless I’ve missed it, there is nothing to capture duplicate links

b) nothing to capture/report dead links.

c) the two droid apps (LinkDroid, LinkGuardian) either don’t connect to my server (the latter) or simply seem too simple to be of good use on the phone. LinkDroid is proposing all the “collections”/folders in a drop down menu and I have many folders in the 4000 bookmarks so it difficult to scroll on a screen when saving a link.

d) The linkwarden firefox extension only allows you to capture links rather than integrate with the browser and substitute the browsers link management process.

Ultimately, it looks more like Wallabag, that i’ve been using for some time now. Whereas, I was expecting more a tool to actually manage the huge link repository I have.

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    I think Linkwarden is fantastic but should be described and advertised more as internet archiving software than a bookmark manager. It really should be obvious to anyone that it’s downloading the webpages, not just saving links. I

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    17 hours ago

    That’s exactly why I stopped using it.
    WTF does it crawls my bookmarks?

    A lot of my links are for internal apps, it won’t even be able to make screenshots in the first place.

    And what if some of those urls trigger some action? This autocrawling is just irresponsible nor do I care to see those images at all.

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    17 hours ago

    I ended up installing sftpgo and just using webdav with floccus. Works great.
    And in mobile I only use firefox, and built in sync

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      13 hours ago

      Same here ! Although, sftpgo is a bit overkill if you only need it for webdav !

    • trilobite@lemmy.mlOP
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      16 hours ago

      Well no. Initially i had the storage set on the VM where its running. I wasn’t expecting it to download all that data.

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    1 day ago

    12gb, whole Internet? You would be horrified at the capacity of some data hoarders.

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    24 hours ago

    4000 bookmarks is nothing, neither is 12gb. I seriously don’t understand how anyone could think even jokingly saying that’s “the whole internet”.

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    1 day ago

    Regarding the multiple formats that’s it’s saving the pages in, just go to your settings and turn on/off the formats you want the pages saved in.

    ETA: There’s also a setting on that same page right underneath that says “prevent duplicate links.”

    • trilobite@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 day ago

      Well, its ticked but not working then because I found duplicate links. Maybe it only works if you try to store the same link twice but it doesn’t work on the imported bookmarks

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        1 day ago

        Was it ticked before importing the bookmarks? If it’s enabled after the fact, it may not apply to existing bookmarks. Not positive, though.

    • trilobite@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 day ago

      I was using floccus, but what is the point of saving bookmarks twice, once in linkwarden and once in browser