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Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by jarek »

eli wrote: post #51
jarek wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A non-VC-funded service where users are the customers

That feels like a fairly abstract benefit

— Delicious users, circa '07

Though certainly if you don't mind switching services every three or five years it's a smaller factor.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by eli »

jarek wrote: post #56
eli wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still using delicious.

Ah, so you're the one! ;)

Indeed! :)

I may well give in to Pinboard while it's still a lifetime rate, but apparently my needs are so simple that the delicious drama didn't really faze me.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by Terretta »

fmavituna wrote: post #45
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #9

I 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)

In Safari, for "native" Pinboard integration across any browser connected via iCloud, I make a favorites bar folder with primary category tags as individual bookmarklets. This shows up as a dropdown menu in Safari UI for Favorites.

Then I can bookmark and tag anything into a primary category with a single click. The bookmarklets look like this:

    javascript:q=location.href;p=document.title;void(t=open('https://pinboard.in/add?later=yes&tags=vod&noui=yes&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Pinboard','toolbar=no,width=100,height=100'));t.blur();
In addition to tagging the item, this is also archiving it for future reference. Don't ignore the archive, it's worth the $25 if you save even a single needed reference from bit rot.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

acqq wrote: post #12

To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists. Maciej, in case you read here, thanks a lot for a beautiful product. I've already decided to pay you yearly. And not because I want to support you (although I wish people would support more such operations like yours) but because I really find your service useful and inexpensive. I s…

"To those who still don't use the service: use the possibility: sign up in this year, you can use than the service as long as it exists."

One side-effect - almost certainly unintentional, from what I know of Maciej - of the change is that a surge in subscriptions might occur as people take advantage. If I hadn't already paid, I certainly would now. I originally signed up more-or-less on a whim, and I haven't taken full advantage of pinboard by any means. Still, I might now and, if I find it really useful, I'm sure I'll go ahead and pay for the annual sub.

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