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After increasing problems with pinboard, I recently cancelled my subscription and moved to ggather.com. It's been pretty good so far.
What is their business model? It's so hard to find information about them on their site without creating an account.
I signed up a month ago to the annual plan for easy mobile bookmarking via Pindroid. So far so good, but I haven't upgraded to the archiving service yet. If I was to take a total guess I would say the archiving service might be getting abused for mass data scraping, and the archive servers are buckling under load. Scraping can use a fair amount of server resources.
I cancelled my subscription last year after similar problems with full text search. I did get a download of my data, albeit it took a while, after requesting it from my settings page. I've never had a reply to any of my emails to him. Alhough I did eventually get a reply on twitter, which said "Sorry for the terrible support" But then I heard nothing more, and got no replies to further emails either. I think he's too…
After increasing problems with pinboard, I recently cancelled my subscription and moved to ggather.com. It's been pretty good so far.
What is their business model? It's so hard to find information about them on their site without creating an account.
I don't check how quickly the cached copies are created after bookmarking. All i knows is that they're there when the site has disappeared. He's got about 7.8GB of stuff stored for me and i've been happy with the service.
I've got thousands of carefully-tagged bookmarks in there, and add more every day. I dread the idea of having to switch to another service, and after evaluating several others—haven't found any that come close.
What are people here switching to? Or am I an out of touch old geezer for even thinking that saving bookmarks is a useful thing anymore...
Maciej has been busy using Pinboard to fund political candidacies[1] and opining on character tests for CEOs[2]. I've voted Democrat in every election, this isn't a political thing. I'm embarrassed by his very public lack of self-awareness, and upset for people who trusted him. [1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard [2] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1050583549164703744
I don’t see the problem with this. It’s their business, and hence their right to do what they want with the funds and time that business allows him. Besides the service being provided to customers, Maciej owes anyone feeling entitled to more nothing.
Maciej has been busy using Pinboard to fund political candidacies[1] and opining on character tests for CEOs[2]. I've voted Democrat in every election, this isn't a political thing. I'm embarrassed by his very public lack of self-awareness, and upset for people who trusted him. [1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard [2] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1050583549164703744
I don’t see the problem with this. It’s their business, and hence their right to do what they want with the funds and time that business allows him. Besides the service being provided to customers, Maciej owes anyone feeling entitled to more nothing.
It's obvious that Maciej has put all his attention into political campaigning over the last year - good on him! But the pinboard blog hasn't been updated since 18 months, and the quality of its minimal-by-design service starts eroding.
I really do hope he can clarify here or on his blog what's the future plan for pinboard. I always liked pinboard being very down to earth with the marketing, but that's no excuse for ignoring the paying customer base.