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Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by phillmv »

accolade wrote: post #16

I like Pinboard.in, but hate the gushing fanboy-ism on Hacker News. It's almost embarrassing to read. There are many other good bookmarking services. Pinboard is one of them. Stop treating it like its a religion.

Maciej is just a cool guy, offering great value and excellent rants on twitter.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

#32

Post by sillysaurus3 »

mahouse wrote: post #29
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd stop using it instantly. EDIT: Wow. Apparently a bunch of other people would, too. A pizza costs, what, $18? Pinboard is $11/year.

There's a huge psychological barrier when buying things like this one. Even if it costed $0.99. (Think about apps.)

While that's true, advertising isn't valuable unless the advertisers know something about you. And subjecting my personal bookmarks to data analysis isn't a line I'd be willing to cross. Once you use it for a few years, your thousands of bookmarks reveal quite a lot about you.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

#34

Post by imiric »

accolade wrote: post #16

I like Pinboard.in, but hate the gushing fanboy-ism on Hacker News. It's almost embarrassing to read. There are many other good bookmarking services. Pinboard is one of them. Stop treating it like its a religion.

Care to share these other good bookmarking services?

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

#35

Post by aratob »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #15
drsintoma wrote: post #14

Can someone give me some hints about pinboard's advantages over, lets say, delicious? I know people love it over here but from what I've read it seems to be more about the openness of the creator that the product itself.

I started using Delicious, and then Yahoo completely changed the service. Utterly. It broke a bunch of features. Switched to Pinboard and never looked back. And it's stayed just as rock-solid as it was on day one. Also, if you're using Delicious to archive some personal bookmarks, I trust those to be on Maciej's servers more than Yahoo servers. I don't know what kind of privacy settings Delicious has, but even if it'…

> In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.

Well, there is this blog entry from August:

Researching Link Rot "This week I'll be running a little experiment in link rot,in preparation for an upcoming conference talk" https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

#36

Post by johnpowell »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #32
mahouse wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a huge psychological barrier when buying things like this one. Even if it costed $0.99. (Think about apps.)

While that's true, advertising isn't valuable unless the advertisers know something about you. And subjecting my personal bookmarks to data analysis isn't a line I'd be willing to cross. Once you use it for a few years, your thousands of bookmarks reveal quite a lot about you.

Back when I was using Del.ic.ous a lot I was in college and really bored I stalked a few people on Del.ic.ous just to see what data I could gather. The first person that followed me I decided to look into. They posted a link to their grandmothers obituary and from there I was able to get their real name and where they were from.. And pretty much knowing everything about their location to where they applied for jobs was easy.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by mcherm »

accolade wrote: post #16

I like Pinboard.in, but hate the gushing fanboy-ism on Hacker News. It's almost embarrassing to read. There are many other good bookmarking services. Pinboard is one of them. Stop treating it like its a religion.

I would be delighted to hear about other good bookmarking services. And I am a potential customer seeing as how I currently pay pinboard for archiving even though I don't really care about archiving - I just want to be sure that it is profitable.

I have looked at (and used) delicious and find it to be substantially inferior. So, can you recommend some competitors?

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by mcherm »

I hope this also increases the profitability of the site. I am always somewhat worried when a site I depend on has a questionable business model. (When income only covers operating costs if the site is growing, that's questionable and with the old pricing model that was the case for all but the archive customers.)

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

#40

Post by jnchapel »

aratob wrote: post #35
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started using Delicious, and then Yahoo completely changed the service. Utterly. It broke a bunch of features. Switched to Pinboard and never looked back. And it's stayed just as rock-solid as it was on day one. Also, if you're using Delicious to archive some personal bookmarks, I trust those to be on Maciej's servers more than Yahoo servers. I don't know what kind of privacy settings Delicious has, but even if it'…

> In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks. Well, there is this blog entry from August: Researching Link Rot "This week I'll be running a little experiment in link rot,in preparation for an upcoming conference talk" https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/

Which includes this paragraph:

"If you are uncomfortable with this research and wish to opt out, please email me with your username, and I'll keep your bookmarks out of the pool. If you have questions, ask me on Twitter or email me privately, and I'll be happy to answer them."

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