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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by jonaswouters »

luckman212 wrote: post #26

Sad to read these comments. Like many others, I viewed pinboard as a rare gem of a service that just worked and had the perfect balance of features: minimalist UI, zero bloat, no ads, nice API, sustainable business model. 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…

I've been evaluating different services and for now, I'm liking https://larder.io/

It's not perfect, and no archiving yet, but it's in active development

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by jonaswouters »

stavros wrote: post #7

This is an odd coincidence, I just received an email today from one of my users (I run a Pinboard "competitor", https://historio.us ) that mentioned the same problems, namely emails having gone without response and an inability to get their data out. I'm afraid I can't answer your first question, but I can answer your second one. historious has been around since 2009 and, while I don't give it amazing amounts of love…

I loved your service when it was released. It does need a little modernization and I'm looking forward to when you get there!

The feature I miss most from pinboard is tag suggestions in the extension/bookmarklet, and perhaps a little popup that gives you a chance to change the title/description.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by Tomte »

Maciej has been interested in campaigning lately, and I also feel he has neglected Pinboard.

Those archiving blackouts hit me regularly, every few months I sent him an email, he makes it work again (only for a while), and the cycle repeats itself.

I‘m astonished he seems to have no form of monitoring, a canary account or whatever.

I‘m not ready to jump ship, but yes, the service doesn‘t feel so dependable nowadays.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by StavrosK »

jonaswouters wrote: post #32
stavros wrote: post #7

This is an odd coincidence, I just received an email today from one of my users (I run a Pinboard "competitor", https://historio.us ) that mentioned the same problems, namely emails having gone without response and an inability to get their data out. I'm afraid I can't answer your first question, but I can answer your second one. historious has been around since 2009 and, while I don't give it amazing amounts of love…

I loved your service when it was released. It does need a little modernization and I'm looking forward to when you get there! The feature I miss most from pinboard is tag suggestions in the extension/bookmarklet, and perhaps a little popup that gives you a chance to change the title/description.

Thanks! You can already do that, there's an option in both the extension and the bookmarklet.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by adnans »

Not using the archive feature of the site so I can't comment on it, but the rest of the site works as it should.

I mainly use it for discovering new content via "popular" tab and my own hacky chrome extension to filter "recent" bookmarks and display those with N number of users who bookmarked the same link.

Sure it could use with some much needed updates to both the site and the api at some point once Maciej saves the American political system eventually.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by toyg »

In the last month or so I'm pretty sure I lost a handful of recent bookmarks. I am in a bit of a pickle, since I have to decide whether to renew in about 3 weeks; at the moment, it's hard to justify the money. It's a shame, I liked everything he was trying to (not) do, but it looks like the last election cycle broke him or something.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by cogs »

mistermann wrote: post #24
cogs wrote: post #11

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…

Being a celebrity?? I was thinking he must be ill in some way, is he in the news somehow?

He's very active on Twitter, and goes around giving talks about the impact of technology. I'd guess that doesn't stretch to the impact of lousy customer service.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by thameera »

4ad wrote: post #5

Pinboard also lost its Safari extension with no replacement in sight. The official Chrome extension also stopped working, but there are 3rd party Chrome extensions that work. He never answered when I contacted him for pinboard support, leaving a very bad taste in my mouth. Maciej seems to be more interested in discussing politics on Twitter rather than fixing his service, therefore I plan to leave his service once I…

I've been using the bookmarklet to pin bookmarks all along. No memory/CPU footprints like the extension and it's still working.
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