I was told that there is a vast community of Fediverse users in Matrix. Makes sense. Now, there is a new Matrix space dedicated to Betula:

https://matrix.to/#/#betula-space:matrix.org

It has two rooms currently: general discussion and user instance directory. Feel free to join!

There is also a #betula channel on libera.chat but it doesn't seem to be used at all.

Introducing Betula 1.2

Betula is a federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats and #Fediverse are supported.

This release brings #ActivityPub-backed following. Follow Betula from Mastodon and whatnot and receive all new bookmarks. A new design for bookmarks was also made.

Release notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.2.0.html

Happy bookmarking!

Oh hey, in the next release of Betula, people will be able to follow Betulæ from e.g. Mastodon. For live experimentation, Bouncepaw encourages you to follow his Betula instance: @bouncepaw

Bugs are expected.

A (big) feature brewing is following other people. Now, following between Betulæ works fine! No bookmarks are being sent though for now. The most you can do is being mutuals, which is fun too, of course.

Following people from other platforms works sometimes too. Other than Betula, complete Postmarks and Inks federation compatibility is planned. As of now, Betula profile lookup in Mastodon doesn't work yet :-(

Here's a sneak peak at the coming Betula update. The bookmark cards are being redesigned to allow for more features and easier use.

1. A green stripe is added, where things are packed tightly.

2. The post number is shown in the stripe, and it's now the link to the post page.

3. Both links in the bookmark (the title and URL) now lead to the saved URL, making Betula similar to other projects in this regard.

1/2

An analysis of Betula codebase with Git of Theseus. Nothing exceptional, code usually remains once added, no big refactorings were attempted. Although there is some fluctuation in the middle of this year.

https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus

Introducing Betula 1.1

Betula is a self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats are produced.

Along with bug fixes and improvements, #ActivityPub-backed reposts were implemented. They are still experimental and do not work with the rest of the Fediverse, but interbetulic reposts do work.

Release notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.1.0.html

Happy bookmarking!

Betula is available in Arch Linux #AUR. Shoutout to Lobo Torres for maintaining the package.

The package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betula

Do you know of any other packages in other repositories?

First ever interbetulic ActivityPub communication ended up with a ridiculous bug. Stay tuned.

Updated the website. Now, the installation guide is more helpful for server administration novices and addresses the v1.0.0 installation issue:

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/installation.html

There is also a new guide for setting up HTTPS with #nginx:

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/https-domain.html

A guide for #Caddy will be written soon.

Development news! Reposts!

You will be able to repost from other Betulae and compatible websites in 1.1. You can repost posts hosted by any version of Betula. However, post descriptions only from Betula 1.1+ will be fetched. Else, no description.

What websites other than Betula are compatible? Those that implement the needed microformats. For example, Quill implements it, so you can repost Aaron Parecki's bookmarks: https://aaronparecki.com/bookmarks

No more copy-pasting from friends!

#IndieWeb

Introducing Betula v1.0.0!

Betula is a self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats are produced.

Among changes:

1. Bookmarklet

2. Searching

3. Built-in documentation

4. Custom CSS

Full notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.0.0.html

If you were delaying Betula installation, now is the perfect time!

Trying out labels in our ticket tracker. We never had them before.

And yeah, Betula is approaching 1.0.

This a good place to request features and report bugs: https://todo.sr.ht/~bouncepaw/betula

Introducing Betula v0.8.0!

Betula is a self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats are produced.

Among changes:

1. #RSS feeds

2. Auto-fetching of page titles

3. Categories were renamed to tags

4. ...and more!

Full notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v0.8.0.html

As we are nearing 0.8 release, the Codeberg mirror of the source code repository was created:

https://codeberg.org/bouncepaw/betula

What's a better name? Please explain your choice

A sneak peek on how daily RSS digests are gonna look like in the next release.

On screenshot, the site is https://links.bouncepaw.com, and the reader is https://miniflux.app.

Say, you subscribe to a link log. How do you want to get the posts delivered in your random RSS reader? Daily digests or every links gets its own post in RSS?

Introducing Betula v0.7.0!

Betula is a self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection in categories. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb tags are produced.

Among changes: settings page, category autocompletion, category renaming, merging and description, site description, UX updates, bug fixes. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v0.7.0.html