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Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by tsg »

runjake wrote: post #10
tsg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks - good suggestion - I'll try asking for a refund and see where it gets me...

It may not get you anywhere in the short term, but it will sit in Maciej's queue. If more people join the unsubscribe party, it will likely increase his chances of addressing your/their issues. I'll keep my sub going for now, I don't use archiving and Pinboard works for what I use it for. I figure he is taking a family emergency or mental health break. It looks like he disappeared back in April.

Thanks. I missed that he actually posted on my thread from April, with something of an explanation of why different people are having different issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30657065

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by tsp »

I have been using Pinboard for many years and switched to Raindrop ~2 years ago. I am 90% satisfied and would definitely recommend the switch. I made my decision to leave Pinboard when it took three month for the developer to respond to a request that I submitted. It seems that they stopped taking it seriously a long time ago.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by riotnrrd »

warrenm wrote: post #4

I never understood pinboard, or del.icio.us, or any of the other "social bookmark" tools out there Can someone explain better than wikipedia the draw to them?

Forget the "social." Pinboard's utility is that it's a website that privately stores all my bookmarks, so I can access them on any computer. You can add tags to help you organize your bookmarks, plaintext notes or descriptions of bookmarks, and so on.

I find it extremely useful for saving the results of internet deep dives, where I might end up with ten tabs open that I want to save to revisit later.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by xcubic »

riotnrrd wrote: post #13
warrenm wrote: post #4

I never understood pinboard, or del.icio.us, or any of the other "social bookmark" tools out there Can someone explain better than wikipedia the draw to them?

Forget the "social." Pinboard's utility is that it's a website that privately stores all my bookmarks, so I can access them on any computer. You can add tags to help you organize your bookmarks, plaintext notes or descriptions of bookmarks, and so on. I find it extremely useful for saving the results of internet deep dives, where I might end up with ten tabs open that I want to save to revisit later.

What is your workflow to bookmark in "bulk"?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by riotnrrd »

xcubic wrote: post #14
riotnrrd wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forget the "social." Pinboard's utility is that it's a website that privately stores all my bookmarks, so I can access them on any computer. You can add tags to help you organize your bookmarks, plaintext notes or descriptions of bookmarks, and so on. I find it extremely useful for saving the results of internet deep dives, where I might end up with ten tabs open that I want to save to revisit later.

What is your workflow to bookmark in "bulk"?

I use the the bookmarklet (https://pinboard.in/howto/#saving) and save one page at a time. It only takes a moment so I've never felt the need to automate it, but I'm sure one could.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by Irongirl1 »

I am a Raindrop user and while I have no major complaints, I'm not really wowed either. I'm thinking of switching to this : braintool.org. Being able to achieve simply, self-hosting (I have 12k bookmarks) and the tagging and note attachment really stands out to me.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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Post by tsg »

tconfrey wrote: post #7

Kind of a different take, check out https://braintool.org . Chromium only RN and no archiving, but you own your own data in plain text (org-mode format). Freemium, source-available and private. Its optimized for fast filing and retrieval with search and keyboard controls.

Thanks - wish it could be used with more browsers, this looks amazing (I use orgmode all the time, but I also use Safari...). That said, it looks good enough that I'm going to give it a go, thanks again for pointing it out.
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