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Pinboard Turns Seven

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Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by idlewords »

stared wrote: post #38

I am a very happy user of Pinboard. And thanks for posting stats! One things which looks worrying is the stagnation of the number of users. By a common social media wisdom, it's a very bad sign... but some time ago I did analyze MathOverflow community (a research-level mathematics Stack Overflow) and they saturated in the first months (sic!) http://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/2182/is-mathoverflow-... , yet it is…

I feel like search should follow the other per-page options (which go up to 160, I think?). So someday I'll fix that.

The number of daily signups and so on has been steady for years, I'm glad someone else is worried about it, so I don't have to be.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by SonicSoul »

morgante wrote: post #53
idlewords wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I talked at length with Tony Aly, who is the new Delicious owner. He is not incompetent and I believe he is making a good-faith effort to get the site back to life. But it's a difficult migration to make. The site was hemmorhaging money on AWS, which made it imperative to try to move it to dedicated hosting. The code base and data store has all kinds of issues stemming from the fact that it's been rewritten so many t…

Thanks for posting the background info. As a loyal user of Delicious, I hope Tony is able to turn it around. It's really depressing to see thousands of my bookmarks become unusable. The site doesn't even support https. Respectfully, I hope you don't buy it though. I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics.

I want me bookmarks provider to be free of politics

care to provide a reference? Missed this.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by idlewords »

csarva wrote: post #54
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'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?

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by SonicSoul »

maxerickson wrote: post #51
Esau wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't make sense. I can't see anything Delicious could offer Pinboard, aside from the domain name. I really hope that doesn't happen. Pinboard is perfect.

It's a bunch of users.

i believe delicious is free so you'd still need to convince those users to switch to a paying model.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by mrbill »

I signed up back in the $9 days, and currently have ~7k bookmarks on onboard (flawless import of my delicious data, too).

It's one of my everyday tools, and would pay a monthly fee if it ever gets to that.

A perfect example of "do one thing, and do it well".

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by idlewords »

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 haven't looked at Pocket for a long time, so I don't have a meaningful opinion to share. The scenario you lay out is exactly the kind of thing I wait for. It takes superhuman effort (or laziness) not to make gratuitous changes.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by SonicSoul »

idlewords wrote: post #66
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 haven't looked at Pocket for a long time, so I don't have a meaningful opinion to share. The scenario you lay out is exactly the kind of thing I wait for. It takes superhuman effort (or laziness) not to make gratuitous changes.

that's one competitor i'd keep my eyes on. so far their implementation is pretty flawless.. let's hope they get lazy

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by maxerickson »

hobo_mark wrote: post #67

It seems nobody mentioned it yet, but what happened to the Apply HN "winners"? Did anything come out of it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049410

Not sure if the other 2 winners have posted anything new or not.

Re: Pinboard Turns Seven

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Post by anc84 »

idlewords wrote: post #60
the_common_man wrote: post #57

Is there an opensource pinboard alternative? I am kind of surprised with all this love on HN give it's love for opensource... (maybe because he is a popular and funny commenter).

You're welcome to my DB schema. https://static.pinboard.in/schema.htm There seem to be a gazillion open source bookmarking projects out there. It's hard to go wrong if you're the only user and willing to host it for yourself.

I saw "(snapshots are directories created by wget)" and felt compelled to suggest using the WARC format. Recent wget supports it and there are great projects like https://webrecorder.io/ , https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb , warcprox etc
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