Hi,

I finally got around to migrate PdfDing from github to Codeberg. Hopefully, I will see some of you over there.

PdfDing is a PDF manager, viewer and editor that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It’s designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

Hi,

I finally got around to migrate PdfDing from github to Codeberg. Hopefully, I will see some of you over there.

PdfDing is a PDF manager, viewer and editor that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It’s designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

Hi /c/selfhosted,

it’s been some time since I have posted an update about PdfDing, the selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It’s designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. You can find the repository here.

Since my last post the following features were added to the app:

• Share PDF collections with the public with a link and QR code. Optionally, shares can be protected with a password and a deletion date. Until now only single PDFs could be shared.
• Use bulk actions for managing multiple PDFs at once. Available bulk actions include adding, deleting, starring + tag and collection adjustments. It’s no longer necessary to waste time by processing one PDF after another.
• Multi-Factor Authentication. Users that aren’t using SSO can now secure their accounts by using a second factor (webauthn + TOPT)
• Other than this there are several minor UI and quality of life improvements that (hopefully) make the app a bit more beautiful and easier to use.

If you are using PdfDing I would appreciate it greatly if you would take a couple of minutes to complete the small survey. This will help me to improve PdfDing in a way that benefits you most.

Last but not least I am quite happy about the nice and steady growth of PdfDing. By now it has almost 300k image pulls and over 1.7k stars. Since the popularity is increasing but not exploding I am not overwhelmed with feature requests and the general maintenance. It also means that I am spared from the attack of AI slop PRs that target more popular projects.

Hi selfhosted community,

I am pleased to announce the release v1.5.0 of PdfDing. PdfDing is a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It’s designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. You can find the repository here.

Important: Before updating, make sure to take a backup! The internal changes in this release are quite substantial and while everything is thoroughly tested, problems could still arise when performing the migrations.

The highlight of this release is the introduction of workspaces and collections. Compared to the already present tag system, they offer way greater flexibility and take the management of your PDFs to the next level. Implementing these features was quite the work as the changes required a lot of refactoring and rewriting of the existing logic. This resulted in over 70 new commits (out of a total 500), so this is by far the most for a single release. I am very pleased with the result and you hopefully too.

Furthermore, the popularity of the project keeps growing continually. We have now over 1500 Stars on github, almost 200k image pulls, over 80 forks and five contributors. Given that the project is quite niche I am still a bit blown away by this level of popularity. At the same time I am also happy that it’s not too popular as it keeps the maintenance overhead manageable… Thanks for the support and onward to further organic and sustainable growth!