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I maintain an open-source project called Linkwarden and this exact discussion is one of the reasons why it exists, teams needed a way to preserve referenced URLs reliably without having to depend on external services.

It stores webpages in multiple formats (HTML snapshot, screenshot, PDF snapshot, and a fully dedicated reader view) so you’re not relying on a single fragile archive method.

There’s both a hosted cloud plan [1] which directly supports the project, and a fully self-hosted option [2], depending on how much control you need over storage and retention.

[1] https://linkwarden.app

[2] https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

If you review the project’s history, you’ll notice that Linkwarden was started well before the vibe-coding hype, and even before the existence of ChatGPT.

Sad to see Pocket shutting down. For anyone seeking alternatives, I've been working on Linkwarden[1], an open-source bookmark manager that hit HN's front page twice[2][3]. Plenty of other great alternatives out there too, such as Raindrop (not fully open-source), Karakeep, and Wallabag.

Also, there's an official Linkwarden mobile app in development, aiming to support most (if not all) of Pocket's key features :)

[1] https://linkwarden.app

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942308

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856801

So there are different ways it archives a webpage.

It currently stores the full webpages as a single html file, a screenshot, a pdf, a read-it-later view.

Aside from that, you can also send the webpages to the Wayback Machine to take a snapshot.

To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server.

Hello everyone, I’m the main developer behind Linkwarden. Glad to see it getting some attention here!

Some key features of the app (at the moment):

- Text highlighting

- Full page archival

- Full content search

- Optional local AI tagging

- Sync with browser (using Floccus)

- Collaborative

Also, for anyone wondering, all features from the cloud plan are available to self-hosted users :)

This. If you’re anything other than a digital artist/someone who genuinely prefers writing over typing, an iPad is just an extra tool for you to waste your money on.

I had one of the earlier versions and this was pretty much its only use case…

Well at the end of the day the processors are bottlenecked by its OS. What real value does an iPad bring that a typical iPhone + Mac combo misses? (Other than being a digital notebook…)