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[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 137 points 9 months ago

The worst part is bookmarks are sorted by post creation date, not date bookmarked.

So if you bookmark something old, it’s gone in the bookmark chasm.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[-] ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

This has given me an absolute aneurysm. I saved something to show the wife only for it to not be there when I went looking. I found the post the long way and sure enough it was still saved.

Maube it was a glitch....

Unsave and resave. still can't find it. rinse and repeat.

Eventually found out about the saving order quirk and sure enough all the way at the bottom was the saved post in question.

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago
[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

On behalf of the less tech savvy lemurs: you all are awesome.

(I know it’s lemming, but I feel like a fraud here not knowing Linux and coding)

[-] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

Gaah, that's why?!?

[-] AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I think categories/topics would be great as well. Maybe a collection for read later, tech, news etc. So i could sort them better.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website -3 points 9 months ago

Boost app is the solution to this problem

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I'd be curious how boost solved it. It is impossible retrieve saved posts/comments by saved date in the Lemmy API. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3229

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago

Well shit you're right! I just tend to save things in time order anyway, so I hadn't noticed. I just deliberately saved something out of time order, and sure enough it sorted itself lower down in my save list. Good to know. My bad

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

I just recently I had an issue getting an OLED display driver to work on an esp8266 board, and given that it was a cheap board on a popular sale site I recorded the information so that other people when they are looking for the exact same thing I'm looking for will be able to find it from my post.

I have little to no intention of further referencing that post

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago
[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

On the old site my username was AmNotSatan, with the premise being that I may not be good but at least I AmNotSatan.

People would constantly accuse me of secretly being Satan all of the time, to which I would invariably reply, Am Not

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

How are there only 2 arduino posts in the Arduino Lemmy? Are there no other Lemmys for microcontrollers?

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

I have no idea. I also thought it was weird but whatever whatever

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 2 points 9 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !microcontrollers@lemux.minnix.dev

[-] aleonem@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

If more people did that, we'd be cured of the "found a solution in an old post -> solution is deleted" trend which has woefully plagued the web.

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Thank you for reminding me to go back through my saved posts

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago
[-] nix@merv.news 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think we do @remindmebot

Or maybe we did seems to be down

[-] jawa21@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We have that. It is a mastodon bot. I don't remember what server it is on, but tagging it will set the reminder.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 9 months ago

I don't even know where to view my bookmarked content on Lemmy.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

Profile, saved/favorite (I can't recall what it is via browser, but it's something like that).

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

On reddit you could go to reddit.com/saved and would redirect you to the saved page. Lemmy doesn't have that and you have to remember https://lemmy.world/u/(username)?view=Saved

Also fun quirk. If you try to show someone else's saved posts it just shows your own instead.

https://lemmy.world/u/fuckwit_mcbumcrumble?view=Saved

[-] syd@lemy.lol 10 points 9 months ago

Or maybe target user saved same posts as you 🤔

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

The only likely explanation.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

They've got some bomb ass-taste then.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Why bother bookmaking then /s

[-] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

That and not being able to be notified when there are new replies to a topic (you are only notified if some repplies to something you wrote.) That means you read something and have to go back to it regularly to see if there are new replies. That doesn't work at all.

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'd like it to be a watch topic, or similar.

that's interesting, but there are no comments yet as it was just posted. I would like to be notified when it starts to get some discussion

[-] simple@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Commenting so I don't forget (I will)

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I've saved this for later.

[-] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

Wow just calling me out here smh.

[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

I didn't even know saving posts was an option. I dont think its available on kbin.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

Idk if it's my lemmy client (eternity) or instance (lemmy.sdf.org) but it seems like "saved posts" doesn't work for me :/ so if I ever need to keep one, I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

[-] rufus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

Hey! Another SDF user in the wild, what’s up!

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

There's dozens of us ;)

I'm just glad federation is back after that scare!

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

I do this too, to a degree, but have you tried bookmarking in your browser more? I have and it's been pretty nice for maintaining this habit without having a tab perpetually open (I write as I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open that I swear I'll get back to eventually).

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

Honestly, I exaggerated for humor. Eventually I do get all my tabs closed, either by reading them (or whatever), or sometimes they don't interest me anymore. My tabs are basically a queue (a stack actually!) of things to do

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open

Those are rookie numbers. I have 10+ windows.

[-] shadowsrayn@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

I use Eternity as well, but with the instance reddthat.com as such my saved posts work fine. Maybe try the web page for your instance to see if they work there?

[-] Arfman@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

I'm in this post and I hate it

[-] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Damn I thought I was weird for doing it

And your telling me that's just what people do lmao

[-] zecg@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's why I save everything into my "Note to self" encrypted Signal blob. It's searchable and you can improvise tags by just writing words

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately with a much higher rate of post/comment rot.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The bookmark button only exists to be pressed accidentally right

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