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Pinboard Turns Seven

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Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#11

Post by Arcsech »

Jerry2 wrote: post #10

I switched to Pinboard few months ago when Delicious committed seppuku and made their site completely unusable. First, Delicious just shut down their site for something like a week, then they resurrected some ancient version of their site that looks & behaves like it's from 2007. Then they switched to an old domain (del.icio.us) and broke every bookmarklet and plugin that used their API. (I'm guessing they're plannin…

Pinboard has apparently been involved in at least semi-serious talks to buy Delicious, according to the @Pinboard twitter. I believe he'd do it, too.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#12

Post by striking »

exolymph wrote: post #9
striking wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a joke. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i... I'm glad there are people who tell jokes, honestly.

I must admit, it was totally non-obvious to me that this was a joke.

The part about "no wireless" and "Nomads" didn't clue you in? Not even a raised eyebrow?

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#13

Post by paulcole »

exolymph wrote: post #9
striking wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a joke. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i... I'm glad there are people who tell jokes, honestly.

I must admit, it was totally non-obvious to me that this was a joke.

Hey gang, I think I found the new HN motto!

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#14

Post by anonymous344 »

I code same kind of php for myself and my brother to use in 2007 but never got to publish it for anybody else to use. Still use it, but not so frequent anymore. These days it's not so useful anymore, you can privately share and store links with so many alternatives like trello.com with mobile also.

But you should really make a video how it works and what are the benefits, that would make it easier to really understand.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#15

Post by idlewords »

Jerry2 wrote: post #10

I switched to Pinboard few months ago when Delicious committed seppuku and made their site completely unusable. First, Delicious just shut down their site for something like a week, then they resurrected some ancient version of their site that looks & behaves like it's from 2007. Then they switched to an old domain (del.icio.us) and broke every bookmarklet and plugin that used their API. (I'm guessing they're plannin…

I talked at length with Tony Aly, who is the new Delicious owner. He is not incompetent and I believe he is making a good-faith effort to get the site back to life. But it's a difficult migration to make. The site was hemmorhaging money on AWS, which made it imperative to try to move it to dedicated hosting. The code base and data store has all kinds of issues stemming from the fact that it's been rewritten so many times, and designed to work at a much larger scale than it needs to right now.

I've told Tony several times I'm eager to discuss buying the site once it finally finishes crushing what remains of his spirit, so it can begin crushing the remains of mine.

With regard to the domain name, Science Inc. explicitly declined to sell delicious.com along with the site, so they could perform some kind of SEO asshattery with that domain in the future.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by onion2k »

Arcsech wrote: post #11
Jerry2 wrote: post #10

I switched to Pinboard few months ago when Delicious committed seppuku and made their site completely unusable. First, Delicious just shut down their site for something like a week, then they resurrected some ancient version of their site that looks & behaves like it's from 2007. Then they switched to an old domain (del.icio.us) and broke every bookmarklet and plugin that used their API. (I'm guessing they're plannin…

Pinboard has apparently been involved in at least semi-serious talks to buy Delicious, according to the @Pinboard twitter. I believe he'd do it, too.

Surely that would just take time and energy away from more important things like the burrito tunnel project.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by winteriscoming »

I haven't hosted/run a site like this before. So I'm curious whether 17K a year to run a product like this is normal. If the author is willing to divulge the details, would love to know what takes the major chunk of that 17K.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#18

Post by aerique »

jalami wrote: post #6

Pinboard is a great service. I like the paid, ad-free model with a nice open API. I haven't had my Pinboard for long, but already think I'm going to keep it going for a long time. It's one of the few cloud services I don't fear being locked into as I can just pull all my data whenever. Self-hosted alternatives usually require some kind of interactive website front-end being set up or have some jenky browser extension…

There are apparently some issues with the data export that require help from the owner: "When I quit Pinboard, he had to make a special dump to actually give me all my hosted data. If you still use pinboard, verify your exports."

From https://mobile.twitter.com/xach/status/751518747941363712

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

#19

Post by exolymph »

striking wrote: post #12
exolymph wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I must admit, it was totally non-obvious to me that this was a joke.

The part about "no wireless" and "Nomads" didn't clue you in? Not even a raised eyebrow?

People say utterly ridiculous things with utmost sincerity on Hacker News all the time.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by exolymph »

anonymous344 wrote: post #14

I code same kind of php for myself and my brother to use in 2007 but never got to publish it for anybody else to use. Still use it, but not so frequent anymore. These days it's not so useful anymore, you can privately share and store links with so many alternatives like trello.com with mobile also. But you should really make a video how it works and what are the benefits, that would make it easier to really understan…

Wrong topic, maybe?
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