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Why did you create Shaarli ?

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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 and open any page).

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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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Why use Shaarli and not Delicious/Diigo ?

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With Shaarli:

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  • The data is yours: It's hosted on your server.
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  • Never fear of having your data locked-in.
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  • Never fear to have your data sold to third party.
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  • Your private links are not hosted on a third party server.
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  • You are not tracked by browser addons (like Diigo does)
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  • You can change the look and feel of the pages if you want.
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  • You can change the behaviour of the program.
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  • It's magnitude faster than most bookmarking services.
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What does Shaarli mean?

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Shaarli is for shaaring your links.

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My Shaarli is broken!

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First of all, ensure that both the web server and Shaarli are correctly configured, and that your installation is supported.

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If everything looks right but the issue(s) remain(s), please: -- take a look at the troubleshooting section -- come chat with us on Gitter, we'll be happy to help ;-) -- browse active issues and Pull Requests - - if you find one that is related to the issue, feel free to comment and provide additional details (host/Shaarli setup) - - else, open a new issue, and provide information about the problem: - - what happens? - display glitches, invalid data, security flaws... - - what is your configuration? - OS, server version, activated extensions, web browser... - - is it reproducible?

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Why not use a real database? Files are slow!

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Does browsing this page feel slow? Try browsing older pages, too.

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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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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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