Pinboard Turns Eleven • Hacker News Board

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#11

Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

tshaddox wrote: post #3

Some of the previous anniversary links are 404s. :)

2 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213326/https://blog.pinb...

3 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20120713030912/http://blog.pinbo...

4 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/07/pinboard_is_four_years_old/

5 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/

6--7 and 10 are valid.

Nine is apparently Right Out.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#12

Post by thaumaturgy » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:12 AM UTC

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari.

...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers. I've dabbled with the API enough that I could pull everything down on fairly short notice, but I sure hope I won't need to anytime soon.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by dna_polymerase » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:21 AM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari. ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user…

I can recommend PushPin on iOS for that, it's another ten bucks (once) but well worth it if you are constantly on iOS devices and need Pinboard.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#14

Post by QuinnWilton » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:33 AM UTC

I know this comment doesn't add anything to the discussion, but I'm another happy user who loves the product and uses it daily. I feel like it gives me the superpower of being able to answer any question my teammates have with a dump of my favourite books / essays / papers on the subject.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#15

Post by zimpenfish » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:38 AM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari. ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user…

December 2009, 64179 bookmarks (2298 dead!), 2998 tags.

Almost all of those are automatic, though, from Twitter/Instagram/Pocket/RSS favouriting thanks to their own account linking and IFTTT.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#16

Post by c1c2c3 » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:39 AM UTC

I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by stavros » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:44 AM UTC

c1c2c3 wrote: post #16

I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.

I run www.historio.us and I reply to emails :P

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

#18

Post by techntoke » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 9:00 AM UTC

Would love to see a Go-based bookmarking server (no JavaScript) and CLI/ncurses app that uses yaml/toml/json files for bookmarks:

  google:
    tags:
    - search engine
    url: https://google.com
  duckduckgo:
    tags:
    - search engine
    url: https://duckduckgo.com

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by huhtenberg » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 9:11 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #11

tshaddox wrote: post #3

Some of the previous anniversary links are 404s. :)

2 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213326/https://blog.pinb... 3 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20120713030912/http://blog.pinbo... 4 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/07/pinboard_is_four_years_old/ 5 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/ 6--7 and 10 are valid. Nine is apparently Right Out.

> Nine

Something happened in 2018. There are no stats for that year too.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by toyg » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

c1c2c3 wrote: post #16

I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.

> poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.

I've had a similar experience. Last year the site just wasn't working when I needed it, so I did not renew and moved to Larder.