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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)?

#21

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.

best $6,28 i ever spent.

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

#22

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/

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

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That the blog link serves an Apache default page right now seems concerning. I hope he's really okay, and just too busy and interested with a good life to be worrying about the little stuff.

It works fine on https:// , so it looks like he just didn't configure Apache correctly. Strange either way.

Doesn’t inspire confidence in the quality of the service.

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

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post #23

Shameless plug: I run https://tefter.io a pinboard alternative which supports importing your bookmarks from pinboard and even has team collaboration features.

No shame in that, since your service is even cheaper. Oh. Nevermind. /s

(In perspectice for 39$/month I can self host 1+ premium vps server(s) and run one or more of those https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#boo...)

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

#28
My archiving account was also disabled on April 1 and all my history deleted, despite the fact that it was paid through sometime in 2023. I also got no renewal notification like I had every previous time the service expired.

I didn't bother contacting support because I've been ignored for the past 2 months in my repeated inquiries about archiving being broken, so I just accepted my money being stolen.

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

#29
I'm afraid this is nothing new. I experienced similar frustrations - archiving didn't work, there were no notices about downtime, and support response was abysmal despite a Twitter account that was very active about US politics - all back in 2017. I left disappointed and with a refund in 2018.

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

#30

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/

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This is absolutely true.
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