Well, collections are not completely deleted as pointed out by Sébastien Portebois and Jan Vladimir Mostert.

At this stage, we want to focus on things that are the core functionalities of Hashnode (writing, asking and profiles). The main purpose of the collections was to organize Hashnode data at the profile level. Some of you like Jan Vladimir Mostert, Sivabalan, Kleo Petrov actively used it but majority didn't.

We've been getting a lot of feedback from the time we have disabled collections. There's no final decision on its status as of now. We're brainstorming many cases like how to make it quickly accessible if it comes back. We'll keep you posted on this.

Thanks for starting this discussion thread. :)

Collections were one of the first reason I went to Hashnode (before it was named like that, but Devsomething), to be able to share stuff in a unique place, then share it to a broader audience (LinkedIn, Twitter), and be able to retrieve it easily, no matter on which account I am.

The new bookmarks haven't removed collections, but made them unusable. In short, you can still retrieve your old collections (like https://hashnode.com/@sportebois/collections), but it's really not as convenient.

I guess I could come back to plain old bookmarks, but I do have different use-cases for bookmarks and collections (the main difference one being the lifetime of the item. I bookmark long-lived links I want to retrieve in months from now, and use collection as an interim stuff: a convenient way to retrieve links in a few weeks (which is PITA on Twitter or LinkedIn). And when I search back in collections for a link a few times, then I bookmark it (already time many times).

I guess this is very specific to me, but my point is: collections were really useful, to a point I might even consider sharing much less on hashnode, because this first-class way to keep track is no longer there.

It's still there, click on your profile pic and there you'll see the collections.

Maybe if you want to save bookmarks and categorize them you can take a look to Raindrop