LinkLocker

I'm pleased to announce that a number of new customization features have gone live on the site as of this afternoon. We've added a new Settings pane where you can adjust the way that your links are displayed: you can toggle between a few different overall display modes, and you have the option of showing / hiding various bits on each link's metadata (like its tags, its category, its "starred" status, and so on). There are a couple of other long overdue additions ...

Ever since the service launched nearly six years ago, I have wanted to update the behavior on pages that display saved links so that the content will automatically refresh itself. Finally that feature is now live, as of this afternoon. Your content will now update itself every minute or so, and will do so immediately any time you switch back to a tab where LinkLocker is already loaded. Good stuff.

Will be on the lookout for bugs here, as this is a pretty substantial change ...

I have added a new form through which you can make us aware of any bugs or issues you happen to see while using the site. Issues reported from that form will now be added directly to our issue tracking system.

Please do note that since data submitted here will be sent to us via a third party (so we can keep track of submitted issues using a software tool developed by a third-party vendor) entries to this form are not quite as private as ...

I've long wanted to add a way to delete links in bulk, and I finally got around to adding that feature today. See the "BULK DELETE" button at the upper right on any page that lists a set of links.

I'm hoping to add more bulk editing functionality in the future. Stay tuned.

I am making the final preparations to launch LinkLocker 2.0 this Sunday afternoon. The site and service will see a (hopefully) brief period of scheduled downtime beginning at around 20:30 UTC (that's 1:30 PM here in the Pacific time zone) on Sunday, June 17. This downtime is by nature a planned event, and services will be restored as quickly as possible.

LinkLocker 2.0 is the biggest update the service has yet seen. It brings hierarchical categorization of links, Firefox and ...