I saw Maciej give a keynote at Web Directions South a few years ago... absolutely brilliant; the guy has a sense of humour dryer than the Atacama Desert :-)
Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
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Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
#42I like Pinboard.in, but hate the gushing fanboy-ism on Hacker News. It's almost embarrassing to read. There are many other good bookmarking services. Pinboard is one of them. Stop treating it like its a religion.
I would be delighted to hear about other good bookmarking services. And I am a potential customer seeing as how I currently pay pinboard for archiving even though I don't really care about archiving - I just want to be sure that it is profitable. I have looked at (and used) delicious and find it to be substantially inferior. So, can you recommend some competitors?
Pocket has become habitual for me. It saves and archives my articles and it's ubiquitous on every platform. Flipboard is also surprisingly good.
Other options are Raindrop.io and Dragdis - sort of the same, sort of different.
I like Pinboard BTW... I like it less because of the sucky fanboy-ism on Hacker News though.
Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
#43I like Pinboard.in, but hate the gushing fanboy-ism on Hacker News. It's almost embarrassing to read. There are many other good bookmarking services. Pinboard is one of them. Stop treating it like its a religion.
Care to share these other good bookmarking services?
I think he was just speaking metaphorically.
Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
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#45I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions.
Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
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Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
#47I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
Whoever solves the linkrot problem will become very rich. Pinboard is a service that is eminently worth paying for. It's everything that del.icio.us was meant to be.
Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
#48I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
Hm, would you expand on what you disliked about the integration? You're using the bookmarklet, right? I just click on "pin this" whenever I want to save the current webpage, and click on "my pinboard" whenever I want to look for a bookmark.
The killer feature for me is being able to type in a description for each bookmark, because later on you can search by any word in that description.
I've given up on tagging anything though.
Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
#49I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable. The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering th…
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
It’s nice being able to keep bookmarks when switching browsers (at least it makes me feel less locked in).
It’s also nice being able to share bookmarks with your friends.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
A Pinboard user here. When I signed up I hoped there would be nice browser integration but it's just not there. UX for me is just rubbish compared to native bookmarking or to even old delicious extensions. Honest question, why Pinboard is any better than using integrated Chrome bookmarks sync feature? (ignoring the archive feature of Pinboard)
It’s nice being able to keep bookmarks when switching browsers (at least it makes me feel less locked in). It’s also nice being able to share bookmarks with your friends.
Both Firefox and Chrome allow importing bookmarks from other browsers, and exporting them as a plain HTML file.
Personally, I also don't see the point unless you're using the Archive feature. Firefox Sync is free, encrypted, and available even if the servers are offline.