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Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by pivic »

idlewords wrote: post #36

People should use whatever site they find most useful. But I find the specific criticisms here baffling. To wit: * "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enough to remember Pinboard origins know that I cloned it off of del.icio.us after Yahoo made that site useless through repeated redesigns. The value proposition of Pinboard is that it endures, just like…

Agreed. The post is less critique than a weird traipse through the author's head. I can't tell why the post ended up on HN; the post doesn't even contain information on how the author built their new solution.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by eitland »

easyThrowaway wrote: post #29
eitland wrote: post #18

I stopped paying (and using it) a couple of years ago. I have a lifetime account so my bookmarks are still there. Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get in contact with support. I now use raindrop.io, it is reasonably priced, has api, lets me import pinboard bookmarks, and unlike pinboard.in it still works for me.

> Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get in contact with support. Same. Archival stopped working, got a bunch of very confrontative replies from the admin and felt it wasn't worth my time to argue with him. By the way, didn't notice that raindrop.io started offering a permanent library. That's great. I wish ReadKit supported it too…

> Archival stopped working, got a bunch of very confrontative replies from the admin

I didn't even get that as far as I could see.

> Is there any tool to migrate from pinboard to raindrop while keeping all the tags

Yes, it is built in and happens automatically during onboarding if you allow it.

> and permanent pages stored at the time it was saved?

Not as far as I know.

It did try to create new snapshots as it ingested my bookmarks but for many sites it was too late, they were gone.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by celdon25 »

idlewords wrote: post #36

People should use whatever site they find most useful. But I find the specific criticisms here baffling. To wit: * "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enough to remember Pinboard origins know that I cloned it off of del.icio.us after Yahoo made that site useless through repeated redesigns. The value proposition of Pinboard is that it endures, just like…

I agree, the OP served a nothingburger. That and your reply made me want to check out Pinboard now.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by idlewords »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #19
Philpax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z

Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?

Because the "boosted Singal post" is a retweet of Singal saying this about the Onion:

"There's still some good onion but when it's cringe it's so cringe

I want the old onion back"

That's it. That's my alleged rightward shift.

Singal is considered a suppressive person on Bluesky and agreeing with him on anything is prima facie evidence of fascism. But I think this attitude says more about Anil and Bluesky than about me.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by idlewords »

wink wrote: post #26
bambax wrote: post #17

I joined Pinboard at a time when there was no recurring costs, just a small fee to join, for life. I think I paid $10 total, 12 or 15 years ago, and not a penny since. For that amount it's a pretty good deal.

I think I got a couple sternly worded emails that sounded like "I can't make you pay, but you should pay now".

It was a single email, in 2022, and the wording was exceptionally friendly!

(For those who don't know, the site moved to a subscription model in 2015 and I asked old-timers to consider converting their account voluntarily. Everyone who chose not to still has a lifetime membership to the site.)

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by philgyford »

pivic wrote: post #41
idlewords wrote: post #36

People should use whatever site they find most useful. But I find the specific criticisms here baffling. To wit: * "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enough to remember Pinboard origins know that I cloned it off of del.icio.us after Yahoo made that site useless through repeated redesigns. The value proposition of Pinboard is that it endures, just like…

Agreed. The post is less critique than a weird traipse through the author's head. I can't tell why the post ended up on HN; the post doesn't even contain information on how the author built their new solution.

> I can't tell why the post ended up on HN

Me neither.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by celdon25 »

aredox wrote: post #24
antithesis-nl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Maciej is another "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"-type pundit - a.k.a. "smart-ss". He is sometimes right (his analysis of website obesity), sometimes completely wrong (he argued at length during the COVID pandemic that Belarus was doing something right, when it was obvious from the beginning that it was just a dictatorship cooking numbers - confirmed by post-analysis that shows abnormal rounding and other a…

I think we could use more people like your description of him, frankly. There’s way too many zombies on the internet that have a societal need to be called out or corrected, Maciej style.

It’s not like this guy is a VC funded hack that takes orders for virtually every corporate policy decision while being prohibited from being brutally honest, or even plainly honest.

Let him cook, even if he is a Democrat.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by idlewords »

notpushkin wrote: post #3

I’m a huge fan of Pinboard owner’s talk on website obesity [1], and I like the brutal minimalistic look, so I’ve wanted to try it out for a while now. I am having second thoughts now: no responsive styles, even for the one feature your users are likely to be using on the go, is pretty frustrating at least. [1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

The whole site is responsively styled; I'm confused about why OP says otherwise.

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by jonstewart »

Philpax wrote: post #27
hombre_fatal wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a link to someone calling someone a -phobe on the internet. Worth less than zero.

Ok, here's a blog post that transcludes an example of Maciej's transphobia from last year: https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob...

Thanks, this shifts a bit how I think of Maciej. :-/ And to think of all the money I funneled into the great slate!

Re: No Longer Posting to Pinboard

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Post by celdon25 »

idlewords wrote: post #40
Philpax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z

I encourage curious people to dig in to what [1] is referring to, and form their own opinion.

Saw the domain name and already knew how the rest was going to go. Fake outrage and clout-chasing virtue-signaling is my diagnosis.
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