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59 <h3 id=
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60 <p>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…
<strong>their Firefox addon sends to Diigo every single URL you visit
</strong> (Don't believe me ? Use
<a href=
"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamper-data/">Tamper Data
</a> and open any page).
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61 <p>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.
</p>
62 <h3 id=
"why-use-shaarli-and-not-deliciousdiigo">Why use Shaarli and not Delicious/Diigo ?
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65 <li>The data is yours: It's hosted on your server.
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66 <li>Never fear of having your data locked-in.
</li>
67 <li>Never fear to have your data sold to third party.
</li>
68 <li>Your private links are not hosted on a third party server.
</li>
69 <li>You are not tracked by browser addons (like Diigo does)
</li>
70 <li>You can change the look and feel of the pages if you want.
</li>
71 <li>You can change the behaviour of the program.
</li>
72 <li>It's magnitude faster than most bookmarking services.
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74 <h3 id=
"what-does-shaarli-mean">What does Shaarli mean?
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75 <p>Shaarli is for shaaring your links.
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76 <h3 id=
"my-shaarli-is-broken">My Shaarli is broken!
</h3>
77 <p>First of all, ensure that both the
<a href=
"Server-configuration">web server
</a> and
<a href=
"Shaarli-configuration">Shaarli
</a> are correctly configured, and that your installation is
<a href=
"Server-requirements">supported
</a>.
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78 <p>If everything looks right but the issue(s) remain(s), please:
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80 <li>take a look at the
<a href=
"Troubleshooting">troubleshooting
</a> section
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81 <li>come
<a href=
"https://gitter.im/shaarli/Shaarli">chat with us
</a> on Gitter, we'll be happy to help ;-)
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82 <li>browse active
<a href=
"https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues">issues
</a> and
<a href=
"https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/pulls">Pull Requests
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84 <li>if you find one that is related to the issue, feel free to comment and provide additional details (host/Shaarli setup)
</li>
85 <li>else,
<a href=
"https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/new">open a new issue
</a>, and provide information about the problem:
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87 <li><em>what happens?
</em> - display glitches, invalid data, security flaws...
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88 <li><em>what is your configuration?
</em> - OS, server version, activated extensions, web browser...
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89 <li><em>is it reproducible?
</em></li>
93 <h3 id=
"why-not-use-a-real-database-files-are-slow">Why not use a real database? Files are slow!
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94 <p>Does browsing
<a href=
"http://sebsauvage.net/links/">this page
</a> feel slow? Try browsing older pages, too.
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95 <p>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?
</p>
96 <p>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.
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