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Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

#15

I bought a yearly package after listening to rave reviews and almost immediately felt remorseful. It’s feels like an abandoned product.

I absolutely love Pinboard, seems like hiring one person to attend the support queue would solve >80% of the problem.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

#17
This particular blog post (1) is always posted on HN as a reminder that when you pay for a product you get good service.

Yet my own experience has been same as others here, and I called it quits when I couldn't access the services because their DNS had expired.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

#18
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post #2

I saw his tweets fall off. I hope he is alright.

He’s in the middle of a year-long Twitter break: > Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow @idlewords for blog post notifications, http://blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff. Great Slate 2022: under no circumstances give any politicians money. See you all in 2023! https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472

Boy will he be surprised when he returns to Twitter to find a smouldering crater presided over by a gold-plated statue of Elon Musk.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (April '22 edition)?

#19

I have a legacy lifetime account so I won't experience any billing glitches, but I've had no problems with any other features. I use it most days and haven't experienced any problems. Frankly, the stability of the service is what I like about it.

Same, I have a free account from having signed up when it was something like $8 for life, the core features actually seem to work pretty well (though I have had some documented search issues where tags weren't being searched; I think that was resolved and one-off).

I pay for the archiving service partially to support Pinboard because I want it to stay solvent, partially because it soothes me to know I can refer back to websites (at least the page I archives) that I found valuable in the past.

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