I have been building a bookmarks-based social network for developers
Tags: productivity, opensource, discuss
Published: 2020-03-30 12:41:35

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title: I have been building a bookmarks-based social network for developers
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description: List of enhancements for www.bookmarks.dev to make it more sociable. 
tags: productivity, opensource, discuss, help
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After a dozen of commits and a couple of grey hairs later I managed to refurbish the [www.bookmarks.dev](https://www.bookmarks.dev) and make it more "sociable". The main goal of the website remains [to ease the management of dev bookmarks](https://dev.to/ama/how-i-manage-my-dev-bookmarks-and-save-time-and-nerves-56ae), but we can all profit from each other's useful resources, so you too can start sharing.  

> The grey hairs are probably not from programming, but rather from programming in "lock down modus". You know kids, playing, cooking etc.

## So what are the changes?

### Home Page
Overall it looks much slicker:
![Home](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tiz2jnfqsi6b5zijltkr.png)

and among new functionalities are the following:
- see in your feed you see on top public bookmarks tagged with the **tags you are watching**
- you can use the **All public** toggler to see all public posts, **except **the ones tagged with the **tags you ignore**
- directly follow or ignore tags where ever they appear, by click on the arrow beside them
- there is a [User Settings Page](https://www.bookmarks.dev/settings) where you can upload your profile picture (defaults to [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/support/what-is-gravatar/)) and set links to your personal website and social media accounts. 
- you can **Copy to mine** public bookmarks worthy of your personal bookmarks collection (this replaces the **Favorites** functionality)
- **Edit / Delete** buttons are much slicker and placed besides the **Share** button

### Dashboard

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ow1ipdyto4m9l57x2upo.png)

The [User Dashboard](https://www.bookmarks.dev/dashboard) has also got some new features:
- in **My Tags** section you can see listed the tags you are watching / ignoring at the top
- **Following** lists the other members of the community you are following
- **Followers** lists the members of the community that are following you

### User profile page
You can see a user's profile page once he publishes public bookmarks.

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/bxuxwbnvnl588q8mhtyj.png)

You expect there to find a profile image, website, social accounts (all editable via the settings page), most used public tags and recent public posts.

## What's left?
**A lot**. I managed to reach some milestones in the past month, but there are still [lots of enhancements](https://github.com/CodepediaOrg/bookmarks.dev/issues) to develop and I could really use a helping hand. To list a few:

- add notifications - [Github issue](https://github.com/CodepediaOrg/bookmarks.dev/issues/52)
- comments for each post - [Github issue](https://github.com/CodepediaOrg/bookmarks.dev/issues/51)
- show following user post on feed - [Github issue](https://github.com/CodepediaOrg/bookmarks.dev/issues/50)

I've got to go build some legos now. For bugs and suggestions I am looking forward to your feedback in the comments bellow.