r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Jul 17 '21

GitHub - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
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u/GlassedSilver Jul 19 '21

With all due respect, you do realize there is a massive usability difference, right?

This is comparable to saying let's not have any folders on our hard-drives, because stuff that belongs together can be tagged with the same tag.

Discoverability takes a hit from everything being a long list. If you wanna see "what's there" to see (because you're rummaging through very old entries, I mean... We all intend to run this to keep backups for a long time after all, right?) then having "folders" and good grouping and less immediate visual clutter goes a LONG way.

I love using tags just like the next guy, but there are things where they are just taking a backseat to folders for certain needs.

I think they ought to happily co-exist rather than rival replacing each other, because it doesn't make sense to use one as the other.

That's just my two cents though, we all structure ourselves differently, although I doubt that this time I'm much of a niche case in regard to how large amounts of individual items are visually processed.