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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)?

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Post by tptacek »

rsto wrote: post #109
tptacek wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's an archiving service" doesn't make this drama any more interesting, and, again, it's weird that it keeps happening here. Just stop paying for it if it isn't working for you, and stop trying to use HN to take people own a peg.

I paid 5 years in advance after I had zero problems with pinboard for a couple of years. When archiving started to detoriate I contacted support and got ignored. Now I try to take my archive with me and again: it does not work and I get no reply. Maciej has for years marketed pinboard as the sane, stable alternative to VC-money chasing competitors and now for quite some time the service now does not deliver to promis…

I understand the complaint, because I have read it on HN a lot. I don't understand why people think it's such an interesting story.

Also: is exporting your entire archive (not the bookmarks, but the archived copies) even a feature Pinboard says it has? That's news to me.

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

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Post by rsto »

tptacek wrote: post #111
rsto wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I paid 5 years in advance after I had zero problems with pinboard for a couple of years. When archiving started to detoriate I contacted support and got ignored. Now I try to take my archive with me and again: it does not work and I get no reply. Maciej has for years marketed pinboard as the sane, stable alternative to VC-money chasing competitors and now for quite some time the service now does not deliver to promis…

I understand the complaint, because I have read it on HN a lot. I don't understand why people think it's such an interesting story. Also: is exporting your entire archive (not the bookmarks, but the archived copies) even a feature Pinboard says it has? That's news to me.

> is exporting your entire archive even a feature Pinboard says it has?

Yes, it's in Settings>Backup>Archive Backup

I think to remember that idlewords even recommended to do it once in a while. Should I not get my archive backup I guess I can still reconstruct most of it from the Internet Archive. It would just be nice if it worked (but my 5-year subscription will run out soon now anyway).

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

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Post by nora-puchreiner »

altdataseller wrote: post #54
idlewords wrote: post #45

POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.

I will buy it for $100k. Serious offer btw

Expect $1000-1500k.

$100k is about 5 months revenue: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

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

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Post by altdataseller »

nora-puchreiner wrote: post #113
altdataseller wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will buy it for $100k. Serious offer btw

Expect $1000-1500k. $100k is about 5 months revenue: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

That is 3 years old though.

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

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Post by unosama »

JamesBaxter wrote: post #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.

He's just an a-hole. He managed to convince people otherwise by having an interesting blog.

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

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Post by TehShrike »

4ad wrote: post #97
syncbehind wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

That "app" thing kept me from trying Raindrop for a long time, too. You can ignore it, it's just poor copy as far as I can tell.

Once I finally got around to trying it, I found it to be a performant webapp. More performant than most.

The home page really doesn't present it in a good light, but the actual service is good, you should give it a shot.

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

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Post by TehShrike »

zimpenfish wrote: post #42

I'd love an alternative but none of the suggestions integrate directly with IFTTT[1] which I use extensively to stuff things into pinboard. Tens of thousands of things over the years. (I also requested my archive a couple of weeks back with no result. It's disheartening.) [1] It's possible that some of them could be integrated via the Webhook functionality but eh.

It looks like Raindrop is supported by IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/raindrop

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

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Post by landhar »

I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard.

It’s named linkhut and it’s currently able to import your bookmarks from pinboard and browser exports. The flagship instance is: https://ln.ht

The source code is hosted here: https://sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut/

The documentation: https://docs.linkhut.org/introduction.html

The two things that are important to me in a bookmarking app (and why I‘ve been working on making one of my own on and off for a while): open source and offering an API for other tools to build upon.

The current API on linkhut aims to be bug for bug compatible with pinboard while being more OAuth-y.

I’m still working on an archiving feature similar to pinboard’s. But it’s probably going to take a while, I’ve been experimenting with different approaches and there’s still a few things I want to explore before settling on a solution. Once that’s ready I think I’ll call 1.0 complete.

In the meantime I’m still working through a laundry list of quality of life and small features (e.g.: recently I pushed support for “unread” links).

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

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Post by codetrotter »

landhar wrote: post #119

I’m working on an open-source social bookmarking site in Elixir that is API compatible with delicious/pinboard. It’s named linkhut and it’s currently able to import your bookmarks from pinboard and browser exports. The flagship instance is: https://ln.ht The source code is hosted here: https://sr.ht/~mlb/linkhut/ The documentation: https://docs.linkhut.org/introduction.html The two things that are important to me in…

> API compatible with delicious/pinboard.

> […]

> The current API on linkhut aims to be bug for bug compatible with pinboard while being more OAuth-y.

This is neat!

Are there any API docs available for delicious, pinboard, and your application respectively?

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