Great comparison. I am working on Savory which tries to keep it very simple and might be interesting to folks looking to jump off Pinboard: https://getsavory.co/. There is a chrome extension to save links and tags are a first-class citizen. There is no support for archiving or sharing yet, but it is something I want to add soon.
The decision to lay off must be made months ago. The point about setting a new record is to convey and reassure future growth potential to investors and employees (who are also stock holders).
I can recommend following Phil Eaton on twitter: https://twitter.com/phil_eaton. They post lots of nitty gritty posts about database development. I likely discovered the above links via their feed.
Why & how did you arrive at the decision to use Cloudinary to host images for your Savory website instead of locally hosting them yourself?
Have you looked at your Cloudinary analytics dashboard to quantify what magnitude of bandwidth you're dealing with?
Are you currently on Cloudinary's free tier plan or paid? Since you mentioned the Github image hack, are you looking for a zero cost hosting of images?
The more datapoints and constraints you provide as background, the better the advice in your replies will be.
Great writeup. I too have a long reading list - currently at 133.
I use my own little side project (Savory) to track the list. When I come across a page that I don't have the time or energy to finish right now, I save it and add the "reading" tag to it. When I have free time, I can open the reading tag and pick up something new to read.
The best part is that I usually add a couple more tags (e.g. "security" or "economics" etc.) when I save a link. This way, the reading list allows me to filter by topic. It has been an unexpected hack to attack the growing list, since I am usually able to finish multiple articles in a single run, all in the same topic, because there is usually a link between them even when I might have saved them days or weeks apart.
Anyway I like how OP actually has a reading history. I really need to add something similar in Savory. Right now, when I finish reading something, I just remove the "reading" tag and I don't get a neat history.
I do the same thing but in one big text file. I store all my general notes there. If it's an article I want to come back to, I write "article", if it's a video, then "video", etc. I also write any other keywords and/or information that I might find useful when coming back to it. Then it's a text search away.
Here's something I saved the other day:
22-09-05
article Tactical Decision Game (TDG)
- https://www.shadowboxtraining.com/news/2022/04/29/film-at-eleven/
- title: Film at Eleven
- scenario of the month
- make decisions
- make notes about your thinking
- compare with experts
It's mumbly, low effort and holds all the information I need to both find it and then to see why I was initially interested.
I would love to see every social bookmarking service and RSS reader to have an interoperate-able comment section.
Why should I manage my bookmarks outside of the browser if not for the benefit of receiving additional information about the articles?
Never since have I found such unique and interesting web apps/essays/videos. Was very cool how it took you to the actual site, but somehow felt a lot more curated than the link aggregators of the time. Every single click was so fun! One of my favorites was a sort of proto- /r/place, where you could place pixels as many times as you wanted on an infinite canvas. Sometimes you could return days or weeks later and still find your art.
Yes, del.icio.us, and something similar still exists at pinboard.in, but sadly without the full social sharing features which where available at del.icio.us
I am making a minimal Pocket/Instapaper/Pinboard replacement. It supports tags as a first-class feature and no-feed as an anti-feature.