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sophia_sol
sophia_solRecently, out of frustration with the bookmarking sites available these days (rip delicious from long long ago, we still miss ye), I learned that it's possible to self-host a bookmark manager, and that Linkding, one such manager, seemed to have the features I need and be relatively easy to set up. And I like the idea of being able to control my own bookmarks like this, instead of depending on the whims of whoever owns the online service I'm using.
I'm a newbie to this kind of thing so I was intimidated going in, but last night I learned the magic of setting up one's own website using a vps, and I got an instance of linkding working on it and my bookmarks imported, and now I am hosting my very own personal bookmarking manager for all my many years of fannish bookmarks!
To get this done, I used the following instructions:
The "start a website" steps at https://landchad.net/
And then the linkding instructions here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-own-bookmark-manager-with-linkding/
It definitely involved some moments of deep confusion, but I figured it out eventually, and I'm super happy with the result! You can see my public bookmarks here: https://linkding.aviansoph.com/bookmarks/shared
I'm not done playing around with it at this point. I would be interested in figuring out how to customize the appearance a bit more. Linkding does have a field for custom CSS within a user account, which works nicely, but the changes that creates only show for the user, rather than being site-wide for anyone viewing my bookmarks.
If anyone has suggestions (or detailed instructions!) of what I should be looking into in order to make my customizations more broadly applicable on my instance of linkding, I'd very much appreciate it, as I really don't know what I'm doing lol. I want to learn more about how to understand what I'm doing with this website stuff!
I'm a newbie to this kind of thing so I was intimidated going in, but last night I learned the magic of setting up one's own website using a vps, and I got an instance of linkding working on it and my bookmarks imported, and now I am hosting my very own personal bookmarking manager for all my many years of fannish bookmarks!
To get this done, I used the following instructions:
The "start a website" steps at https://landchad.net/
And then the linkding instructions here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/create-own-bookmark-manager-with-linkding/
It definitely involved some moments of deep confusion, but I figured it out eventually, and I'm super happy with the result! You can see my public bookmarks here: https://linkding.aviansoph.com/bookmarks/shared
I'm not done playing around with it at this point. I would be interested in figuring out how to customize the appearance a bit more. Linkding does have a field for custom CSS within a user account, which works nicely, but the changes that creates only show for the user, rather than being site-wide for anyone viewing my bookmarks.
If anyone has suggestions (or detailed instructions!) of what I should be looking into in order to make my customizations more broadly applicable on my instance of linkding, I'd very much appreciate it, as I really don't know what I'm doing lol. I want to learn more about how to understand what I'm doing with this website stuff!
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