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Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us .
I recently switched to historious after seeing it here on HackerNews, and I've been very happy with it so far. It's a great bookmarking service; I'm surprised it hasn't received more attention with the debacle going on at Delicious.
Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us .
Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us .
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> (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 not sure what you're talking about. There was no downtime, and no slow access. 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 comp…
However, the "there was no downtime" seems a bit disingenuous given my own experience signing up for the service yesterday. I received many "service unavailable" messages during signup, after clicking on the email verification link, and finally after signing up. Searching Twitter at the time for "Pinboard" showed that many other users were getting the same message (e.g. http://twitter.com/davekincaid/status/15520511979167744) ... there were many others, but unfortunately Twitter's 'older tweets' search doesn't seem to be working now.
I actually didn't care that the service was down for me even though I had just paid to sign up for it; I figured you guys were getting absolutely hammered by the unexpected news around Delicious. However, seeing your response here was surprising - either you didn't have monitoring tools set up to show you that indeed there was downtime or we have a drastically different definition of 'downtime'.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. There was no downtime, and no slow access. 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 comp…
Going from 5k to 5M is really impressive - congrats on your sudden impressive growth! However, the "there was no downtime" seems a bit disingenuous given my own experience signing up for the service yesterday. I received many "service unavailable" messages during signup, after clicking on the email verification link, and finally after signing up. Searching Twitter at the time for "Pinboard" showed that many other use…
If that was the general experience people had with the site last night, then it absolutely was downtime.
http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
"But you, sir [PG], are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are going to be right over here with all the wine, hash, and hot chicks."
It baffles me that people want to pay for something that is widely available for free.
It gets really old (and time consuming for those who don't have time to burn)
I recently bought Fever for my RSS reader and Pinboard for bookmarking both which I love (and are worth every cent)
Personally I plan on avoiding free SaaS based services in favor of paid or open source self hosted solutions whenever possible.
It baffles me that people want to pay for something that is widely available for free.
Another good alternative, albeit search-based, is http://historio.us .
As an aside, the creator of pinboard, is the anti-PG, (or at least the anti-PG of 2005): http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm "But you, sir [PG], are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are going to be right over here with all the wine, hash, and hot chicks."
That is an unfair and extremely misleading label to apply to the author:
- your selective quote is immediately followed by "Hee hee", which most readers would interpret to mean that said paragraph (or indeed the entire post, since those are the last two words) is a somewhat good-natured poke.
- the criticism in the post is scoped only to the hackerspainters analogy
- elsewhere in the post he says "Graham is an excellent author when he sticks to topics that he knows well"
Hardly anti-PG. He's just not a fan of the analogy PG used in some essays. Don't drum up conflict where there is none.