Plain HTML full of <details><summary> tags. Its not even hosted. It just sits in ~/Documents/index.html and gets synced with syncthing.
Firefox doesn't allow setting local HTML as your new tab page though...
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I feel this. At some point, we have to come to terms with the fact that half of this stuff could be replaced by a single HTML file. Reminds me of all those "New Tab" extensions that might as well be a freshmen's "my first web design" project. So many of them you could just code yourself in under a half hour or so.
These Homepage services really fall into a gap of usefulness. They don't provide the level of monitoring you actually want, yet they're complete overkill for just a bookmark UI. They also need to work with everyone's jank so they get overly complicated.
If you just want links, just write the HTML and spend an afternoon fiddling with the CSS. If you want some level of monitoring, you can write some JS to see if they can connect to the service. Any more monitoring and you'll want something like Prometheus/grafana.
You can just make an HTML page and serve it with rclone or something so you can set it as a new tab page in Firefox using a proper url
I just type in the URLs 😬
7GB is absurd, just write a bit of HTML.
I just memorize the IP addresses
browser also remembers name of pages if i forget port number 
Currently I use bash, but I should really switch to zsh 
I just use bookmarks.
I was just looking at this over the last few days and couldn't really find any fully satisfying options. I straight up do not want a yaml config for this kind of thing, otherwise Glance looked pretty nice. I settled on Heimdall because mostly I just wanted a way to create a nice collection of all my links to services and be able to customize that per user as well. My partner doesn't need links to Sonarr and Radarr, but doesn't want to remember the different URLs for Jellyfin, Navidrome, etc. So Heimdall is very simple and has no widgets, but I use Komodo for actually monitoring stuff like memory usage.
Komodo
Heh, monitor lizard. That's good. Plus, after looking at it, seems like useful software. I also like this part of the README file: There is no limit to the number of servers you can connect, and there will never be. There is no limit to what API you can use for automation, and there never will be. No "business edition" here.
Glance does look nice, but yeah, I'm with you regarding YAML files. Some of these things support docker compose labels, and I couldn't think of a worse thing to maintain then a docker-compose file full of labels that make up the rest of the software configuration. Glance has a nice look, but good lord the amount of YAML files you'll end up managing. Plus, you know, it's full of 
and 
energy. Like, do I really need a whole YAML config file to track the fucking NASDAQ, who even cares that much?
https://heimdall.site/ for my links homepage and I just check my hypervisor management interface if I want to see how things are running.
Depends on what you need it for. I use Prometheus+Grafana to monitor all my services. The nice thing is that a lot of services already export their metrics for your Prometheus server to scrape so you don't need to do any extra work. I also like to just use Proxmox web UI to quickly look at the state of my server.
I tried playing around with things like Homepage and found them to be mostly useless. You could make a very nice looking and functional homepage with just Grafana
Bounced around between a few. Started on Heimdall, then moved to Organizr for the tiered-permissions and Jellyfin-based SSO features, but then after moving accounts to an LDAP server ended up switching to Homepage for just a really simple graphical bookmark page. Homarr is also approaching release on a big new revision that looks really promising, so I may migrate to that when it's done.
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This looks very nice too. I think I have issues when I see projects that haven't been updated in a year. It doesn't look like its been abandoned since there still commits, but I guess the project is just 'done'?
Multiple times I've started using a service where the dev disappears for 6 months with no explanation or has been working on something in a super secret dev branch without any word and I just assume they logged off forever. Calibre Web Automated and Autocaliweb both have/had this problem.
I tried most of them, and I really like homepage. It's simple, and it looks good on desktop and mobile.