I've only found two differences between a bookmark folder and a collection:

1. Collections show up on new tab 2. collection items are remarkably easy to accidentally deleted,with no confirmation or undo functionality.

Reminds me of Firefox reading lists... which also disappeared and I hardly noticed.

well I didn't know it was coming and my workflow went to hell.

Because it's horrible in almost every way.

I'm inclined to agree... but to play devil's advocate, it's the sensitive ones we remember and talk about.

thank you for writing this history up. I am a regular but never really got involved in the effort to revive (except to announce it's return 10 months ago on HN)--I didn't really know the story.

Detect and xplay and yutru are there now. Still devastating the restof us paeons.

dependency rot is a more general problem. in my work we deal with lots of seldomly used applications, and I've found that reducing external dependencies tends to keep life happier

if true Bitcoin needs to die, and eventually will under its own weight.

The traditional financial system is the root cause a significantly greater amount of pollution.

Here is the proposition: let's make an inherently deflationary currency suitable for black market transactions that will become even more polluting with every transaction.

CryptoKidz: I'm in!

But haters gonna hate, and downvoterz gonna downvote. what evs

People hate Word, Excel and Photoshop??? These are examples of wildly successful software used by consumers and in industry alike.

why is that interesting?.

Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?