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Pinboard Turns Seven

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Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by buro9 »

deftnerd wrote: post #81
buro9 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine looks much the same, I pay GBP 6,900 per year to run 300 forums serving 200k users per month and over 8m page views per month. Also in my costs are email (transactional via Mailgun, marketing via MailJet), DMARCian, AWS S3 for avatars and attachments, SSL (still paying for a wildcard, perhaps let's encrypt next time round), Google Apps for email to run the business. It's realistic to spend around USD 10k per yea…

If you're looking to lower your S3 costs, there are some S3 compatible services now that are far cheaper. Found this list: http://www.s3-client.com/s3-storage-providers.html

That's the tiniest cost I have.

S3 is all about controlling transfer costs, so I placed an Nginx file cache in front of my attachments and avatars and it obliterated my transfer costs.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by chiborg »

toyg wrote: post #75
koevet wrote: post #34

I have been using Pinboard for some years now. Great, rock solid service. I currently keep ~2K bookmarks on Pinboard ( http://pinboard.in/u:koevet ) but I wonder if my usage pattern makes actual sense for me to keep on using it. I mainly use Pinboard as a kitchen sink for articles and completely random stuff I stumble across. You can actually tell from my totally schizophrenic tag cloud. At some point I was using a c…

Indeed I wish there was a way for Pinboard to actually nudge me into looking at old links. Maybe a daily reminder like "hey, you pinned this some time ago and never looked at it since! Maybe you should give it a chance!".

I've written something like this. It's not a general service (since it would have to constantly pull stuff from pinboard), but you can run it on your own server https://github.com/gbirke/pin-this-day/

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by 100k »

SonicSoul wrote: post #59

congrats on year 7! I signed up years ago when delicious decided to completely redesign their service for no apparent reason and broke backwards compatibility with all plugins and made the main site less usable. I am very happy that none of that asshattery is happening at pinboard and the site remains the boring plain ugly link collector that it is. I do find myself using pocket more and more however and would be cur…

I use both Pocket and Pinboard. For me, Pocket serves as a "I'll read this later" service. If I find the article noteworthy, I'll bookmark it in Pinboard (using the email gateway).

Pocket has released a number of premium features that put it more in Pinboard's area of strength, but at this time I'm happy to continue using Pinboard.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by wyclif »

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.

Pinboard buys Delicious, reverts to del.icio.us culture, hires @joshu

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by VRtual »

tedunangst wrote: post #100
SonicSoul wrote: post #62

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I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics care to provide a reference? Missed this.

Pin board on Twitter is far from politically neutral.

Similar to the band Cake. Nobody cares what they have to say about politics; we just follow them for one purpose.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by csarva »

idlewords wrote: post #63
csarva wrote: post #54

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I've been waiting for a while now for the ability to change the URL of a pin. It seems the primary key for a pin is the URL and changing it currently means doing a delete+create. Was told over a year ago that a fix would be coming "soon" but doesn't look like any work has been done in that time.

I'm confused because it's been possible to edit a URL for years, in the web interface. Maybe you're referring to an API call?

Sorry, yes, I meant via API.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by mcherm »

amix wrote: post #28

As a long term Pinboard customer I dislike this "I am doing nothing and I am proud of it" mentality and I will unsubscribe. Pinboard has been the same for years and I feel little attachment to the product. I am unsure what to switch to, but Pinterest looks like an interesing and innovative solution.

I have the opposite feeling. Pinboard does what I want. It seems like it will CONTINUE to do what I want, perhaps for a long time to come! If it could run a little faster, I wouldn't mind that (but maybe that's because I have about 14,000 bookmarks all with detailed comments and extensive tagging), but I happily pay for a subscription JUST so I can be confident that it won't suddenly disappear.
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