Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by rdyson » Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 8:59 PM UTC

jonaswouters wrote: post #31

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

Thanks for recommending Larder. I just moved over from Pinboard. I really like the ability to sync Github starred repos and Stack Overflow favorited questions as bookmarks.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by jonaswouters » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 8:34 AM UTC

mkevac wrote: post #40

I am using raindrop.io and I am pretty happy with it.

I liked that one the most, but development seems to have come to a halt. I've seen complaints about payment renewals etc so I'm not taking the risk.

It does seem like browser bookmarks is the safest bet.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by jamescampbell » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 4:36 AM UTC

Works great for me and I will continue to support him. The bookmarklet continues to be great as well as the API. Paying customer and will remain until I roll my own solution someday.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?

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Post by 4ad » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 12:56 PM UTC

thameera wrote: post #39

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.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, it works for adding single items (although it's not as convenient for me, as I don't have the favorites bar visible), but there's still no way to save all pages in a tab set. I used this feature a lot with the old extension.