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Pinboard Turns Six
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#12The post ends with "Please don't forget to make backups!" I love Maciej's sense of humor and honesty. Now, to download my bookmarks...
Maciej is easily one of my favorite writers.
And speakers! I recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c
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#13The post ends with "Please don't forget to make backups!" I love Maciej's sense of humor and honesty. Now, to download my bookmarks...
Regarding backups... I'm paid user and I don't have any idea how I'd back up the content of the mirrored pages. I understand that the bookmarks alone can be exported.
On another side, I always hoped that I won't have to backup anything from pinboard.in.
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#14Love Pinboard. Delicious just dropped the ball with their slow speed and constant site crashes.
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#15Pinboard is one of those pieces of software that has "just worked" since I first signed on. It's been a surprisingly useful part of my daily life, and the lack of bullshit when using it has been awesome. Also: Maciej is an incredible writer. If you haven't read his blog ( http://idlewords.com/ ) or his Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/baconmeteor ) you really should.
You might be interested in his current kickstarter campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor...
Send Idle Words to Antarctica
"I propose to visit Antarctica in February, 2016 and write a series of at least seven blog posts about what I see and learn. In a break with past practice, I will publish the entire series within four months of completing the trip.
The trip I have in mind is a 36-day organized sea cruise on a Russian icebreaker to the Ross Ice Shelf and Bay of Whales, with stops along the way at Australian and American bases (including McMurdo sound) and numerous subantarctic islands."
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#16Chalk me up as yet another happy user of Pinboard. I put up with the ridiculously slow Delicious bookmarking for far too long only migrating to Pinboard two years ago. I have about 18k bookmarks on pinboard and speed has not suffered at all. Bookmarking is very fast. About the only criticism would be that search of my bookmark tags seems a bit more primitive than on Delicious. Can I actually search multiple tags (not…
Another user of pinboard here (not a heavy user though). Are there any other examples of services that are simple and just work? Seems like this is the holy grail of SaaS - a simple service, barebones design, something that just works out of the box, happy customers. Great service.
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#17I went to sign up and was very confused by the recurring fee. I fully expected to pay like $25 bucks once by now. I wonder how the one time fee would have looked currently?
I paid $10.38 about a year ago. I think he just switched the one-time fee to an annual one for new accounts. Still really cheap for a great service.
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#18I went to sign up and was very confused by the recurring fee. I fully expected to pay like $25 bucks once by now. I wonder how the one time fee would have looked currently?
»I changed the business model of the site in January from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it.«
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#19More than anything else, I'm glad something on the scale of Pinboard can exist. Just a man providing a service he built lovingly, to a base of happy customers.
> I am a terrible businessman.
Only from a certain point of view.
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#20Sorry for OT, but could anyone tell me how to pronounce "Maciej"? I usually refer to him as "the pinboard guy" because I'm not sure.