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It baffles me that people want to pay for something that is widely available for free.
Considering how easy it is for ad-supported businesses to suddenly become unsupported and disappear I'm willing to give a nominal fee (~$8 forever) a shot.
It baffles me that people want to pay for something that is widely available for free.
I pay for email, I pay for hosting photos, and I pay for pinboard.
I just switch to Pinboard from delicious. I really like that I'll be able to search and archive the content of my bookmarks. Here's what it took for me to get started: - Exported bookmarks from delicious - Signed up and paid $25 for Pinboard (their non-archiving service is cheaper) - Imported in to Pinboard (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) - Removed my browser plugins for de…
Honestly, I think that's unacceptable for a relatively unknown service that charges a steep price ($25/year for _bookmarking_ is pretty crazy). To not get good uptime and speedy access and have a bold red banner on the top of your homepage claiming poor scaling is not encouraging.
I just switch to Pinboard from delicious. I really like that I'll be able to search and archive the content of my bookmarks. Here's what it took for me to get started: - Exported bookmarks from delicious - Signed up and paid $25 for Pinboard (their non-archiving service is cheaper) - Imported in to Pinboard (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) - Removed my browser plugins for de…
> (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) Honestly, I think that's unacceptable for a relatively unknown service that charges a steep price ($25/year for _bookmarking_ is pretty crazy). To not get good uptime and speedy access and have a bold red banner on the top of your homepage claiming poor scaling is not encouraging.
Personally, I signed up when it was around $6.30 which means a ton more users in the last while (I signed up when Xmarks was saying they were going under) and with a major bookmarking service going under, a small service getting bombarded with many more users usually gives up the ghost and dies totally, not just slows down for certain functions while others continue on fine.
It baffles me that people want to pay for something that is widely available for free.
I pay because I want to be the customer. If I am buying something, I am able to exert market pressure on the provider. If I am a collection of poorly-anonomized data being passed around from J. Random data mining company, I lose this (admittedly, largely nominal) agency. I pay for email, I pay for hosting photos, and I pay for pinboard.
Out of curiosity, who do you pay to host your email?
I just switch to Pinboard from delicious. I really like that I'll be able to search and archive the content of my bookmarks. Here's what it took for me to get started: - Exported bookmarks from delicious - Signed up and paid $25 for Pinboard (their non-archiving service is cheaper) - Imported in to Pinboard (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) - Removed my browser plugins for de…
> (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) Honestly, I think that's unacceptable for a relatively unknown service that charges a steep price ($25/year for _bookmarking_ is pretty crazy). To not get good uptime and speedy access and have a bold red banner on the top of your homepage claiming poor scaling is not encouraging.
I'm using Pinboard.in right now to navigate my collection of bookmarks and manage tags and I don't notice any slowdown. I suspect the slowdown is actually limited to new imports and archiving. There has been no downtime related to all the new signups as far as I have seen. The developers are active on Twitter http://twitter.com/pinboardin and the Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/pinboard-dev/ so you can check out the discussion yourself.
I just switch to Pinboard from delicious. I really like that I'll be able to search and archive the content of my bookmarks. Here's what it took for me to get started: - Exported bookmarks from delicious - Signed up and paid $25 for Pinboard (their non-archiving service is cheaper) - Imported in to Pinboard (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) - Removed my browser plugins for de…
> (took a few hours because they are experiencing a lot of traffic right now) Honestly, I think that's unacceptable for a relatively unknown service that charges a steep price ($25/year for _bookmarking_ is pretty crazy). To not get good uptime and speedy access and have a bold red banner on the top of your homepage claiming poor scaling is not encouraging.
We went from our normal rate of 5k bookmark writes per day to over 5 million in a 24 hour period without going offline.
Hell, we didn't even get slow. Our median page load times stayed well under a third of a second. We had no advance notice of the announcement and had to handle the spike in traffic on the fly, on one server. Our competitors crashed, we stayed up.
I'm pretty proud of this and I think our users got their money's worth from Pinboard today.
Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us .
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I pay because I want to be the customer. If I am buying something, I am able to exert market pressure on the provider. If I am a collection of poorly-anonomized data being passed around from J. Random data mining company, I lose this (admittedly, largely nominal) agency. I pay for email, I pay for hosting photos, and I pay for pinboard.
> I pay for email Out of curiosity, who do you pay to host your email?
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> I pay for email Out of curiosity, who do you pay to host your email?
In my case fastmail.fm, zenfolio.com, and pinboard.in.