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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by larrywright on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:00PM (#28303308)
Neat product! I wanted to point out a couple of typos on the landing page:

“Subscribe directly to another users WebCrate instace“

“Stays running even if the we disappear.”

You might want to use a tool like Grammarly to help tighten up the marketing copy (or just pay a copywriter - you can probably even find someone at your university to do it for cheap). Not a criticism, just a suggestion.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:09PM (#28303429)
I would strongly discourage use of Grammarly: It's essentially a keylogger which uploads everything you type to their cloud service, and there is really no guarantee of privacy or ability to delete that data.
Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by larrywright on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:13PM (#28304128)
I have the same concerns (and don’t use it for private writing) but I figured for public web copy it’s not a huge deal. Also, you can (or at least could) install their desktop app which would require you to do writing in it or copy/paste it in to get their suggestions. That way only the content you want to send to them goes, rather than everything.
Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:17PM (#28304168)
You are right, for text that will be public it isn't too bad.

Good tip with the Desktop app, but that doesn't seem like an ideal solution either.

Keeping my fingers away from Grammerly all together sounds like the best option IMO!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:13PM (#28303468)
Good to know, thanks! I'm currently using Microsoft's Editor extension.

Do you have any good alternatives?

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:03PM (#28303339)
Whoops! Thanks so much for pointing them out!

Thought I fixed all the typos, but some always get through! Grammarly might be a good solution, thanks :D

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by riffic on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:43PM (#28303790)
There's also a couple typos here:

> Descentralized

> Subscribe directly to another users WebCrate instace

btw, how have you implemented interoperability?

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:52PM (#28303890)
Thanks, fixed!

Between WebCrate instances? Thanks to Deta Space each instance has its own domain so it is reachable directly without a gateway or central server. The instance then exposes a public API which another instance and the client can access to get the required data.