Weird, not long ago there was nothing but praise for this service and the author, now both the service and HN's opinion seem to have backslid.
Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
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#22Why 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
I believe it never happened to me that HN automatically capitalized words in titles I submitted.
Standing by my opinion that such titles are harder to read, I often remove unnecessary capitalization when submitting.
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#23Why would you capitalize most words in the title? It's harder to read, especially with invented names which should always be capitalized.
I lazily copy-pasted from the previous such post - hope I didn't spoil your day.
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#24Out of curiosity, why has a replacement for this service not been created? I don't use the product myself but love the developers blog.
raindrop.io
It had a few hiccups 2 years back, but it's been going great. Been using it fir 2 years and it's really good. My choices were raindrop or pinboard and went with raindrop due to native apps ans open source client.
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#25> I notice that idlewords is recently active on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords We need a way to page HN users...
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#26We 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.
>> should we also worry about the “dev getting bored” problem?
This is one thing I worry about. I would love to start a one dev, money making, app...but I know me, I'll get bored. I would have to find something that I am really passionate about where any $$ is just a consequence of what I made and enjoy working on.
Also, I'm not sure I want to deal with customers.
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#28Working on an alternative take — follow https://twitter.com/flipso for updates.
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#29It's hard for me to fathom why people continue to pay for a service, whose founder time and time again shown that providing a good service is least of his priority. It took me four emails and two DMs just for him to acknowledge that there was a problem back in 2019. I understand virtue of simplicity, but how much can it hurt to just make the site responsive or just fix the fucking bookmarklet so it doesn't take multi…
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#30I'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 featu…
I've got a container running linkding ever since that email trying to convert us old timers to a subscription basis. I figured first would be the polite ask, then later the strong arm.
Only think missing for me for linkding is an android app.