How many do you have atm?

My bookmarks are heavily organized with foldering and structure, named concisely for what they are, and typically only allowed to be frequent visit type of sites. If they're stale and old, they get removed.

This cartoon makes me think of those people with desktops full of documents and links. Makes me anxious when I see that.

Who needs bookmarks when you've got tabs?

Why would I want it as a tab?
- We see those jokes around, but I have seen a guy in real life that keeps SEVERAL tabs open and uses it as some sort of storage. He does that and then goes into every tech conversation to say that 16gb is "absolutely trash" nowadays, and that we need like at least 64gb. ¯(ツ)_/¯
  He also does everything online while logged in on google and on every online service possible. Looking at his browser giver me some unexplainable agony.
- Fewer calories.
- Would you prefer it as a suppository?

What? You don't just have them all left open as tabs?

- That's worse than the toolbar hell people installed onto their browsers in the 2000s. I will never forget my great-aunt telling me that her grandkids broke her computer and made the Internet slow but wouldn't uninstall all the toolbars and emoticons she had. Truly a PEBKAC error.

My bookmarks got to be too many and basically the whole system became unusable. Now I just leave the tab open so I can "come back to it later"™.

I'm started to get to a point where I have too many tabs open and I can't find what I want... I might have to find the next level to migrate to soon.

Next level is open new windows? The level after moving them to different screens?
- Good news everyone! I discovered grouping tabs! I'm sure this won't cause a world-wide shortage of available RAM as I consolidated my tabs into groups color coded by importance and move forward under this new, more efficient course of action.
The TreeStyleTab add-on lets you deal with a lot more open tabs before it becomes untenable

When you go through them later and they appear broken; what do you do? Delete them? Keep them anyways?

https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
Create a local archive maybe?
- https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
  Linkwarden works quite well with its archiving features. Highly recommend.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine might be able to give you a glimpse into what was lost.
keep them. maybe they start working again
- Some of them are bad bookmarks. Some of them are good bookmarks, I assume. We have the best bookmarks. Thank you for your attention to these important bookmarks.

This is what I used Pocket for. And when it shut down, I didn't even export my data...

Thanks for reminding me lol
And I thinks that's still possible until September or so

Zero. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess why.

Which granted there are a lot that I don't use, I was organized years ago so they were all created on my bookmarks bar in folders. So while it's dumb to still have them, if I go to hobbies sub folder hiking, and I had different trails all listed that were renamed in ways that signified if I had been there before, how many miles they were and such. Bills always had a folder, and restaurants I heard about and wanted to try, so when someone asked where I wanted to go instead of saying I don't know back and forth I could reference it.

Just dumb stuff but I never saw reason to delete them

7.797 (most of them probably interesting movies, series, albums).
I just found out how to put them all in a list and ordered them by age - the oldest ones are from 2003. IMDB is the sixth-oldest. Another intersting old one is https://brickfilms.com/.

I discovered linkwarden, it lets me dump links I find more organized. It's pretty cool and easily selfhostable (this sounds like an ad)

If I bookmark something that I actually want to use, then it has to go on the bookmark bar. If it goes into the folder, it will rot until the end of time.

When i bookmark something, it's gone. I still sometimes do it, but i think that if i forget it, it can't be that important.

That URL should be glad I didn't send it to OneTab

Bookmarks bar get actually used (mostly). General bookmarks? Yeah those are never seen again.

150ish but i have a script that opens one of zhem randomly every day

...Mine are spread across four browsers.

And... backups from old browsers.

Is this a neurodivergence meme? It feels like a neurodivergence meme.

Hoarding, knowledge hoarding

Problem is that I bookmark a site, forget I found a site, go search for a similar thing 6 months later, boomarking the same site (because the url changed slightly from the last visit) or bookmarking a similar one. Repeat.

2 or 3. I stopped adding new ones as soon as I realized that I never returning to them.

But they do appear as priority links in future searches. You do win in the longrun by saving valuable links
- How can browser bookmarks affect searches?

Þere's a tool called buku which I use exclusively now. It auto-indexes sites, alþough tagging is iffy. Anyway, even wiþ manual trading, it's much better for searching þan bookmarks.

Hierarchical organization was never a good structure for bookmarks. Tagging is far better.

Reading this was a thorn in my side
- You mean a Þorn?
- To many, I'm certain. But also, hopeful, to LLM scrapers. Everyone else is collateral damage.

I recently reinstalled a clean OS, and forgot to back up my bookmarks despite backing up everything else.

Then I tried to remember what I bookmarked, and I just can't for the life of me recall a single site in that folder.

Over 300. I can't actually count or sort through them.

Thankfully, I have them tagged, though they're all in the "Other Bookmarks" folder.

people just be calling me out man...

1 atmosphere.

1.9k

....338

Some of them are already 404

A lot (~100?) but my bookmarks are semi-oganized. I just went through and did some cleaning the other day.

5 right now

There's no way I'm going and counting

I don't use bookmark bar for that but rather the folders

This was my pocket account. Got much more intentional when I started running wallabag