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, we’d 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. 🚀
What’s New?
🛠️ 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.
🌐 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.
✅ 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 we’re doing, you can support the project by either starring ⭐️ 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
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. ↩︎
I set up LinkWarden about a month ago for the first time and have been enjoying it. Thank you!
I do have some feature requests – is GitHub the best place to submit those?
Has anyone compared its page archiving feature to ArchiveBox?
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 ¯_(ツ)_/¯
All self-hostable software should do single sign-on the way Linkwarden does.
If you are wondering whether or how to support OIDC or SAML or other SSO, look no further for inspiration.
It’s really well documented and easy to config. You just open the page for your IDP, follow the instructions, set a few config setting and you’re off.
The user interface is also really good at this. Often custom identity providers feel hacked on, here it’s integrated really well.
I believe the implementation is based on nextauth.js
Question I’ve been meaning to ask: if I start with cloud can I move to self-hosted later? I’ve seen this before and it feels like a product I could make good use of, especially for getting tabs closed.
How have I never heard of this before!? I’ve been looking for exactly this for ages now.
Already spinning up a docker container!
