Planned Downtime This Weekend

LinkLocker.co will see some planned downtime this Sunday evening, June 19th, from 10:00 PM until perhaps mindnight Pacific Daylight Time. During that period, I'll be performing some maintenance upgrades which will make the service briefly inaccessible. Reliability may or may not be spotty initially during that time window, so please remain patient as we make these updates.

New: Progressive Web App

LinkLocker is now a Progressive Web App (PWA), and it can be installed on both mobile and desktop devices. The easiest way to install on a laptop or other dekstop computer is simply to visit the site in Chrome, and follow the prompt to install from there. The exact sequence varies a little from one mobile platform to the next, but here's the basic gist.

While we still hope to make some fully featured native apps available, the new PWA functionality will somewhat bridge ...

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Accessibility Improved Sitewide

I've recently done a deep dive on general accessibility across the entire site. While there are likely still plenty of issues to be found, I'm happy to say that I've been able to address every a11y issue that automated scanners like Deque's Axe tools are able to detect. While no substitute for in-depth manual testing (which I will continue working on over time), addressing all issues reported through automated scanning puts us in a great position from today forward.

If you ...

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Bulk Deletion

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.