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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)?

#91

I don't use pinboard but I have seen enough posts on HN now complaining about lack of response from Pinboard to paying users. I know it is run by 1 person and he clearly doesn't care. Try and move on if you can.

This is the perfect review. "I never read your book, but people on here say you don't enjoy writing."

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

#92

I don't use pinboard but I have seen enough posts on HN now complaining about lack of response from Pinboard to paying users. I know it is run by 1 person and he clearly doesn't care. Try and move on if you can.

This is the perfect review. "I never read your book, but people on here say you don't enjoy writing."

You have a lot of actual users sharing their frustrations on this thread. Yet you choose not to reply to them, and instead to someone that has not “read your book” (which point you are trying to make, I’m not sure).

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

#93
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That extra money really helped with development, didn’t it? At this point that email is starting to seem dishonest.

Truly I don't want to give him MORE money just to get my data out of there. It feels like a slap in the face after a slap in the face. Definitely taught me some lessons about the naive thinking of leaning in on indie projects.

If you are in Europe just submit to him a GDPR request (for fun).

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

#94

It'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…

Because there's no alternative service to choose from.

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

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post #94

It'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…

Because there's no alternative service to choose from.

How do you figure?

Raindrop.io is aggressively priced for all that it provides (I have switched from pinboard to this, and it is a near 1:1 replacement). In fact, it provides features such as highlighting / annotation that Pinboard.in will never implement.

Wallabag, Linkding, and Archivebox are three selfhosted options that come to mind, that serve similar purposes.

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

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Anybox [1] is a great replacement if you are in the Apple ecosystem. Raindrop [2] is another alternative that a lot of people seem to enjoy. I tried many alternatives to Pinboard and like AnyBox best so far. [1] https://anybox.app/ [2] https://raindrop.io/

Signed up for raindrop now. Wondering what happens if the solo dev gets ill, but as long as I backup it has to be better than pinboard has become.

How is that different from pinboard's dev getting ill? Both are single-dev projects

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

#97
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there's no alternative service to choose from.

How do you figure? Raindrop.io is aggressively priced for all that it provides (I have switched from pinboard to this, and it is a near 1:1 replacement). In fact, it provides features such as highlighting / annotation that Pinboard.in will never implement. Wallabag, Linkding, and Archivebox are three selfhosted options that come to mind, that serve similar purposes.

I opened up raindrop.io and I see a video, and what appears to be a bootstrap.js site. I cannot express how much these things sway me away from the service. I will never use a site like this, if I can help it. Also, apparently there's an app. Facepalm.

The best part of pinboard is that there is none of this... stuff.

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

#98

It'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…

I'm happy to keep paying for it, since it does exactly what I need, and I knew going in that I wasn't paying for a customer support team to genuflect every time I had a question or concern. If it's not working at all for you, don't pay for it. What's baffling to me is how this manages to generate a whole thread of drama twice a year. It's a bookmarking service.

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

#100
post #38

Anybox [1] is a great replacement if you are in the Apple ecosystem. Raindrop [2] is another alternative that a lot of people seem to enjoy. I tried many alternatives to Pinboard and like AnyBox best so far. [1] https://anybox.app/ [2] https://raindrop.io/

Raindrop is fantastic. Not only as a browser extension, but the apps are useful themselves as a way to browse your bookmarks efficiently.
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