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

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

#11

If you want to be holy to HN, you have to develop a product with zero modernity, zero responsiveness. It's really interesting to pay for a site that only one man developed for his own pleasure.

I've been a customer since 2010 and for the majority of that time it's been great.

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

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This is my first time hearing about this website. Surprising to see the founder is American but the top level domain for pinboard is Indian, any particular reason he chose .in ?

I would guess he liked the overall sound/look/feel of the domain name.

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

#14
We worry about the “bus problem” when it comes to one dev operations but should we also worry about the “dev getting bored” problem?

I’m not sure what’s happened to Pinboard I hope Maciej is alright.

I tweeted him ages ago asking about if the pin a URL page could become responsive so I don’t have to use a separate mobile app. He’s responded with a joke. Years later and I’m still using the mobile app.

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

#18

If you want to be holy to HN, you have to develop a product with zero modernity, zero responsiveness. It's really interesting to pay for a site that only one man developed for his own pleasure.

I've been a user for ten years plus and reading this thread is the first indication I have had that I'm meant to be dissatisfied. Admittedly I have never used the archive feature but every other aspect of the service has been fine and has done exactly what I expected. I migrated from del.icio.us and having lived through the two or three relaunches of that, including the inevitable 'socialisation', the stability was, and has been, welcome.

Btw anyone who is concerned about the stability of the system should use the export function, I do this every couple of months to allow for Maciej going under a bus.

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

#19

Why would you capitalize most words in the title? It's harder to read, especially with invented names which should always be capitalized.

Title case[0] is often automatically applied by HN, with some extra rules for a lot of edge cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

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

#20
I've been a user since 2011. I love the simplicity of the site. A few years ago all the old-timers that paid once in the past have been asked to switch to a subscription plan.

I would have happily done it if it wasn't for the abysmal support. Twice I emailed about an issue and haven't even gotten as much as a confirmation that my mail was received.

With a product as simple as this, I can get behind saying no to feature requests, but there are actual bugs that are ignored.

Is there maybe some sort of self-hostable php solution like this?

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