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Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by serf »

idlewords wrote: post #66
stavros wrote: post #17

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I run www.historio.us and I reply to emails :P

He does! And unless I'm wrong, historio.us has been around as long as Pinboard but never gets half the HN love.

replying to a goading competitor rather than an honest now-former customer with a legitimate complaint strikes me as a real classy business move.

just my opinion.

(i'm a customer, I love pinboard, and this affects nothing as far as i'm concerned.. I haven't ever needed customer service -- it just strikes me as rude.)

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Post by ralphc »

tptacek wrote: post #72

Broken record: I get that people are really into tagging and I see how I could, like, instead of writing HN comments or playing Dark Souls, nurture and groom an elegant garden of them for my own 10,000 bookmarks. But that's not why I use Pinboard. It turns out ("bookmark people" apparently already know this) that a huge collection of bookmarks basically functions as a personal search engine. My primary interface to P…

18,000+ bookmarks for me, although I started with del.icio.us back in 2006 and imported them when it went away. So yeah, I'm a fan.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by idlewords »

pcglue wrote: post #90
idlewords wrote: post #80

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Hey, thanks for reconsidering the site! It sounds like you caught things in mid-maintenance, or on a day when someone decided to crawl everything with no pause between requests. For what it's worth, one feature I want to make work on the site is "create a sharable list of links to give people", it's a use case that comes up a lot.

While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?

There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by pcglue »

idlewords wrote: post #93
pcglue wrote: post #90

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While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?

There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.

But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by pcglue »

pcglue wrote: post #94
idlewords wrote: post #93

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There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.

But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?

OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by AJRF »

idlewords wrote: post #63
AJRF wrote: post #39

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He does refunds, I got one from him, after a very short delay. I got the feeling it was a pain in the ass for him to do it, but he did it anyway. I later resubscribed at a higher price (I am fickle and decided I did actually want to use the service) - which I wouldn't have done had the customer service been poor when I asked for the refund first time.

It's not a pain in the ass at all; for Stripe it's a single click operation for me. With PayPal it requires a brief trip to their site. Glad you decided to come back!

Great to hear I didn't put you into too much difficulty!

On reading my comment back it seemed a bit snarky - just want to be clear to all it was nothing Maciej said in his emails around the refund that made me think it was a pain to do - he was perfectly accommodating - I just personally assumed that it would have been annoying admin to issue the refund.

Thanks for making Pinboard Maciej.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by lordfosco »

Normille wrote: post #83
lilyball wrote: post #53

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Out of curiosity, what do you use to store and search bookmarks on mobile? Both the old (third-party) iOS app I used to use and the old macOS app I used to use have stopped working years ago due to neglect. So I use the service pretty sparingly on desktop and pretty much not at all on mobile.

I'm on Android not iOS. But I use the Pinboard app. When I want to save a webpage, I use the "share link" menu [under the browser hamburger menu] to send it to the Pinboard app.

Definitely check out Pinkt for Pinboard [0]. It is a rather new Android Client for Pinboard which is actively maintained and has quite a nice UI - and besides that it is OSS.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibelatti....

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by idlewords »

pcglue wrote: post #95
pcglue wrote: post #94

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But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?

OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.

Yeah, it's done by a background script. But genuine orphan tags should not be possible.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by yinka »

Pinboard is an abandoned graveyard, I requested a download of my archived bookmarks, got it like 6 months later - not 'under an hour' as promised, better late than never I suppose. I wont be renewing.

Re: Pinboard Turns Eleven

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Post by jdeibele »

kevinskii wrote: post #68
CaptArmchair wrote: post #51

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Well, ask yourself this: what's the concrete value proposition you're buying into? "bookmarking" in itself is way too general and leaves you wondering why you want to spend 22$. You're actually (a) leasing usage of affordances provided by a system which someone else took the time to design and build, and (b) leasing hosting for your collection of bookmarks on someone else's system. Why would you do that? Because you…

It's not necessarily a choice of "Pinboard" vs. "Microsoft" vs. "create your own bookmarking website." For me, it's "Pinboard" vs. "text file". At $11/year, I would choose Pinboard any time. I've been a subscriber for years and I don't expect anything for free. But at $22/year, I'll go with the text file.

I was going to correct you on pricing because I did a one-time payment of about $11 back in 2010. It used to be that there was a one-time price that incremented as people signed up. So really early people could have paid a dollar or so, I guess.

But it's now a yearly fee. Which is good for us grandfathered people, since it means the service will stay around.

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