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1 | ### Why did you create Shaarli ? | |
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3 | I was a StumbleUpon user. Then I got fed up with they big toolbar. I switched to delicious, which was lighter, faster and more beautiful. Until Yahoo bought it. Then the export API broke all the time, delicious became slow and was ditched by Yahoo. I switched to Diigo, which is not bad, but does too much. And Diigo is sslllooooowww and their Firefox extension a bit buggy. And… oh… **their Firefox addon sends to Diigo every single URL you visit** (Don't believe me ? Use [Tamper Data](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamper-data/) and open any page). | |
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5 | Enough is enough. Saving simple links should not be a complicated heavy thing. I ditched them all and wrote my own: Shaarli. It's simple, but it does the job and does it well. And my data is not hosted on a foreign server, but on my server. | |
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7 | ### Why use Shaarli and not Delicious/Diigo ? | |
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9 | With Shaarli: | |
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11 | - The data is yours: It's hosted on your server. | |
12 | - Never fear of having your data locked-in. | |
13 | - Never fear to have your data sold to third party. | |
14 | - Your private links are not hosted on a third party server. | |
15 | - You are not tracked by browser addons (like Diigo does) | |
16 | - You can change the look and feel of the pages if you want. | |
17 | - You can change the behaviour of the program. | |
18 | - It's magnitude faster than most bookmarking services. | |
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20 | ### What does Shaarli mean? | |
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22 | Shaarli stands for _shaaring_ your _links_. | |
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24 | ### My Shaarli is broken! | |
25 | First of all, ensure that both the [web server](Server-configuration) and [Shaarli](Shaarli-configuration) are correctly configured, and that your installation is [supported](Server-requirements). | |
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27 | If everything looks right but the issue(s) remain(s), please: | |
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29 | - take a look at the [troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) section | |
30 | - come [chat with us](https://gitter.im/shaarli/Shaarli) on Gitter, we'll be happy to help ;-) | |
31 | - browse active [issues](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues) and [Pull Requests](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/pulls) | |
32 | - if you find one that is related to the issue, feel free to comment and provide additional details (host/Shaarli setup) | |
33 | - else, [open a new issue](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/new), and provide information about the problem: | |
34 | - _what happens?_ - display glitches, invalid data, security flaws... | |
35 | - _what is your configuration?_ - OS, server version, activated extensions, web browser... | |
36 | - _is it reproducible?_ | |
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38 | ### Why not use a real database? Files are slow! | |
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40 | Does browsing [this page](http://sebsauvage.net/links/) feel slow? Try browsing older pages, too. | |
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42 | It's not slow at all, is it? And don't forget the database contains more than 16000 links, and it's on a shared host, with 32000 visitors/day for my website alone. And it's still damn fast. Why? | |
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44 | The data file is only 3.7 Mb. It's read 99% of the time, and is probably already in the operation system disk cache. So generating a page involves no I/O at all most of the time. |