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Pinboard Acquires Delicious
- AmIFirstToThink 9y agoThis makes me happy. So happy. Two thumbs up. Keep doing what you were doing, Pinboard, do not ever buy into the argument that changed Delicious from what it was.
- maxerickson 9y agoI think Pinboard should totally sell out if someone offers $20 million. It's $20 million!
- spearo77 9y agoTL/DR: Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard
- aaron-lebo 9y agoOr like don't ruin a perfectly good site trying to chase Digg or whatever the hell Yahoo was chasing.' If Yahoo had taken del.icio.us circa 2005 and never changed a thing, Pinboard doesn't even exist. They destroyed their own userbase trying to chase markets.
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- sixQuarks 9y agoThis actually wants to make me compete with them more. Challenge accepted
- colinbartlett 9y agoCongrats to Maciej, I think! What a cool piece of internet history, and a storied brand, to have within your stable.
- devoply 9y agoI wonder how much he paid for it. Last I heard he was making something like 250k per year. I would expect delicious to go for a few million at least. Did he buy it for a song, or did he get investors or funding?
- zack12 9y ago250,000? That's is almost 22,000+ paid accounts. If that is correct, it is a pretty big achievement.
- douglasfshearer 9y agoMaciej publishes a yearly progress statement [0] with revenues and costs included. [0]https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
- mikeecb 9y agoThe website claims to have 25k users [1]. [1]: https://pinboard.in/tour/ https://pinboard.in/tour/
- karlshea 9y agoI'm happy to be one of them. I honestly barely use it, but I had a ton of bookmarks at Delicious that I was uncomfortable about losing. $11/yr means they stick around, plus I do still stuff links in there every now and then.
- tedmiston 9y agoThe true number of accounts is probably higher since anyone who bought in before he switched to annual billing paid a one time charge.
- stevenj 9y agoAbout $200k per year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14438221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14438221
- paulcole 9y ago
- draw_down 9y agoThe coup de grace.
- dmix 9y agoPoor Delicious. They were a victim of web 2.0. Much like Digg. Delicious vs Pinboard was basically Digg vs Reddit. The one who focused on the basic core usecase over flashy features and modern/trendy design won.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoBy the time pinboard was popular delicious was effectively dead. It was delicious that changed, Pinboard basically just took the interface and features it abandoned. They never really competed directly like Reddit and Digg.
- dmix 9y ago> They never really competed directly like Reddit and Digg. Even so that wasn't my core point here. The analogies between the two are still plentiful. Digg didn't die because of Reddit's 'competition' either. Digg shot themselves in the foot while Reddit largely did nothing and won because of it. Both Digg/Delicious made big mistakes by doing their social network era redesigns, while Pinboard and Reddit were built around simple designs and staying true to a core concept. That's the point.
- cocktailpeanuts 9y agoThis is an unfair and incorrect assessment. It's all situational and contextual. Reddit was pretty much seen as a copycat failure that sold to a large corp because they couldn't figure themselves out. It was only after Digg messed up on their own they enjoyed their run. Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious.
- kenko 9y ago> Pinboard is great, but it never competed against Delicious. In fact it came out long timer after people stopped using Delicious. It got a HUGE boost when the announcement of Delicious' sunsetting came out.
- jccalhoun 9y agoI'm torn. On one hand, a couple years ago when delicious went down for over a week, I paid for an account at pinboard and haven't regretted it one bit. On the other hand, it is sad to see such an old brand mismanaged and unable to survive on its own. I have hope that it is in good hands though.
- tra3 9y agoI was sad when Yahoo bought delicious 'cause I knew it was over. But Delicious was the first of its kind, and provided really good discovery. I dont understand why pinboard bought it. To preserve the bookmarks?
- karlshea 9y ago> I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
- handelaar 9y agoSadly that ship partly sailed when Yahoo dumped it; a huge proportion of the accounts never got exported including ones who explicitly consented to the transfer. I don't know anybody who stayed with it after that
- eridius 9y agoYeah, that's what the blog post said. > Delicious has over a billion bookmarks and is a fascinating piece of web history. […] I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
- tra3 9y agoI'm still confused as to why it's valuable.
- eridius 9y agoProbably for the same reason that the Internet Archive decided to thoroughly archive all of GeoCities when that closed. People tend to like preserving what they view as being important history. Also, not wanting a billion bookmarks to vanish is a good reason. Plus I'm sure he can convert a bunch of former Delicious users over to Pinboard simply by operating the service.
- tedmiston 9y agoIt sounds like from the post he's not thinking about it in monetary value.
- buckbova 9y agoI honestly didn't realize delicious was still around. It felt really groundbreaking at the time. I loved the ability to tag and search for links by tags to find new interesting content. Perhaps with introduction news mashups like digg it didn't feel as useful anymore. I stopped using delicious soon after it was acquired by yahoo. Site has been bounced around a bit since. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website) "The site was founded by Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.[2][3][4] Yahoo sold Delicious to AVOS Systems in April 2011,[5] and the site relaunched in a "back to beta" state on September 27 that year.[6] In May 2014, AVOS sold the site to Science Inc.[7] In January 2016 Delicious Media, a new alliance, reported it had assumed control of the service.[8]"
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- Analemma_ 9y agoI almost can't believe this isn't one of Maciej's snarky satirical posts, if only because there's no way he would do this with stock or debt and so it must be an all-cash transaction, and I didn't realize that he was either pulling in that much or Delicious was that desperate. I signed up for an archival Pinboard account last weekend though, so maybe it was my $25 that put it over the top ;)
- paulcole 9y agoHe posts his earnings and costs every year-- it's not something you have to guess about.
- elliottcarlson 9y agoHe posts stats every anniversary; costs and earnings specifically are new to his 7th year. https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
- mikestew 9y agoIf the $35K figure is correct, many of us could write a check for that today (at least those of us whose entire six-figure salary isn't consumed by a SV mortgage). Even six figures would doable for the more frugal amongst us (though frugal I am personally not). Hosting costs, OTOH...
- cperciva 9y agoFor the record, Tarsnap has no plans to acquire Dropbox.
- lyime 9y ago
- ktta 9y agoWhat about box?
- joshbaptiste 9y agohahaha.. if that were to happen Next Story: Tarsnap promptly migrates Dropbox to FreeBSD
- floatboth 9y agoWhat about Crashplan or Backblaze? :D
- bambax 9y agoIf they offered you the name for $35k you'd be a fool not to buy it!!!
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- wonderous 9y agoMight be worth noting Pinboard has a history with YC and HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633278
- sp332 9y agoAlso "The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud" https://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm https://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm
- fomojola 9y agoRandom question to Maciej: looking at https://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm https://static.pinboard.in/prosperity_cloud.htm, did anyone apply/win?
- flobosg 9y agoSix projects were selected: https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/01/pinboard_co_prosperity_winners/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/01/pinboard_co_prosperity_winn...
- ralphc 9y agoI've used Delicious for 12 years, with 10,000+ bookmarks in it. Delicious went up and down and was sold, I got nervous and got a Pinboard account as a backup, back when it was doing one-time charges, but inertia kept me in Delicious. The recent downtimes, plus the iOS app no longer working, and Pinboard extensions making saving links easy, pushed me over last month. I was frustrated that the Delicious export went away, so the Pinboard acquisition is going to be perfect for me.
- dyu- 9y ago> I've used Delicious for 12 years, with 10,000+ bookmarks in it I've used it for 7.5 years with 22k+ bookmarks. I stopped using it last year because of the downtimes as well. > I was frustrated that the Delicious export went away Too much load on their servers. Instead of transferring, I simply made a simple bookmarker with similar functionality (allows importing) that I could self-host. See https://github.com/dyu/bookmarks/ https://github.com/dyu/bookmarks/ if interested. Edited: export comment
- farnulfo 9y agoDelicious export was broken long (years?) before the coming acquisition. Fixing it seems to be on pinboard priority : https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/870334621648654336 https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/870334621648654336 nice !
- dyu- 9y agoYea I just read from the comments and updated my comment. It wasn't broken in the first half of last year (I was able to export)
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- wkoszek 9y agoThat's why Maciej wasn't replying to any e-mails recently! Who knows. Maybe "Delicious under new management" will NOT be a "slowest growing unicorn"
- adam12 9y agoI rarely accessed any of my 5,000 bookmarks anyway.
- tartarin 9y agohttps://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious... "If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API." https://del.icio.us/export https://del.icio.us/export "We're sorry, but due to heavy load on our database we are no longer able to offer an export function. Our engineers are working on this and we will restore it as soon as possible."
- edmccard 9y agoAlso from the blog post: Those who prefer to bookmark elsewhere will be able to export their data once I fix the export link, which was disabled some months ago for peformance reasons.
- ghostly_s 9y agoThat's probably some cruft from the previous owners. Considering Maciej's vocal commitment to an open web, I'm sure he'll be implementing a functional export and direct port-to-pinboard soon. This announcement does seem oddly slapdash, though....why not wait a few weeks to announce once this stuff is in place?
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- conradev 9y agoIf you read further… "Those who prefer to bookmark elsewhere will be able to export their data once I fix the export link, which was disabled some months ago for peformance reasons. Please note that there is no time pressure for moving off Delicious."
- extra88 9y agoThe RSS feed URLs have been 404ing as well for at least two months.
- vladsanchez 9y agoDelicious! I thought they were already DEAD, and I wish they were. They messed up my bookmarks once so badly that I really want them out of business. Ah, and I don't give a damn about Pinboard or Google Bookmarks either. I only use Pocket.
- vit05 9y agoI am still waiting for a better experience in save what I like. Pocket is great for text, but only for that. Pinboard is cool and safe but is not for me. I still use google to find things that I have saved before, since 96, I have countless files called Temp on bookmarkers for things that I need organize, things saved on twitter, Medium, Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram, Google Keep, HN, Evernote and on mobile, there are tons of screenshots of things that I could use later. And that is for things that I already have seen, but, unfortunately, nothing of this is used to refine my experience in discovery new things that I could, potentially, like to see. I really hope that more people attempt to compete with Pinboard.
- ollieco 9y agoI hear you. I used Pinboard a couple of years ago but stopped using it in favor of Pocket (I can't seem to recollect the exact reason why). Pocket is great for things that I want to save for later. I have cached copies of webpages in my Pocket that are no longer online, so that is pretty neat. Lately I've noticed that Pocket has become like a cold storage for me. I rarely ever go back to reading the bookmarks from it. I recently found a bookmarklet [1] on PH that works like Pocket but sends the bookmarks to your email instead of sending it another app. It has been working pretty well for me so far. I've been using it to send myself an email for stuff that I want to read in the near future (within the next couple of days or so) and use Pocket for saving links that I might need at some later date. But discoverability is still an issue, I am yet to find a decent solution that can help me find new things based on my interests. [1] https://www.emailthis.me https://www.emailthis.me
- cooperadymas 9y agoI've discovered that the missing link for me was getting the articles onto my Kindle. I now read between 100-150 articles a month this way, previously I would read only 10-30 articles in a month. I use Wallabag, an open source alternative to Pocket. It generates an RSS feed which Calibre can read, download, and send to the e-reader. Pocket should do the same thing. Once a week or so I go through and mark articles as read, then open up Calibre to re-download the fresh feed. One weird trick (heh) that has become really useful is reversing the RSS feed. So I receive two 'e-books' on my Kindle, one with new articles and one with old articles. This satisfies me, since I'm often wanting to read some new articles ASAP, while also working my way through the backlog. Calibre lets you script the feed processing in Python. With Wallabag the feed is also paginated, so you could accomplish nearly the same thing by selecting a higher page number. Not sure if Pocket does that.
- mtkd 9y agoabsolutely love pinboard - but it has some cookie timeout thing that I need to log back in more often than I should also, well played Maciej
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoCongratulations, Maciej. This is way too funny. I'd love to hear the back story on how you ended up acquiring Delicious at some point.
- webwanderings 9y agoWith all due respect to the owner and the author of this blog post. As an old delicious user, an individual, who gave up on delicious long time ago. And as a non-pinboard user who never cared for it. The only response came to mind, reading this extremely prideful blog post, is: FU. Edit: Down-voters, you're welcome! If you're young enough and do not go back in time on the Internet; you have no idea what it was like pre-pinboard days. If you're old enough and did not think having a paid service provides all the solutions to the Internet's underlying problem; you know what I mean above.
- eltoozero 9y agoBest product URL ever, http://del.icio.us http://del.icio.us You will be missed.
- justusthane 9y agoIt's cute, but I don't think it's good. I could never remember where the dots went.
- idoh 9y agoI think that was the joke - you have to bookmark it in order to get to your bookmarking site.
- oliyoung 9y agojust ahead of slashdot.org
- dna_polymerase 9y ago> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. WTF? Is that a challenge? Expect me!
- pragmatic 9y agoI believe it's humor. The Pinboard creator writes done very good stuff.
- dna_polymerase 9y agoI think it is, I once saw a talk of him in front of the Congress Library (or something like this). He was humble and focused, and I love his product. Already saved >800 Bookmarks with Pinboard.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoYou're definetly not the Spanish Inquisition then.
- than 9y agoIt's more like the Polish Acquisition.
- idlewords 9y agoBring it, enzyme face!
- someSven 9y agoThey once deleted my account, because the email address stoped working and I forgot to change it. I thougth I'd had a backup, but then I realized it was without tags and comments. Since then I mistrust such services, better to store stuff on the own devices.
- _pmf_ 9y agoMy (pre-Yahoo) account also seems to no longer be working; was there a mandatory action that one had to take to transition to Yahoo?
- icebraining 9y agoIn my humble opinion, you learned the wrong lesson. The right lesson is "keep (and verify) regular backups", doesn't matter if it's a remote or local system. Obviously, if the remote service makes that hard, you probably shouldn't use it, but Pinboard isn't one of them.
- stared 9y agoBTW: Which Chrome extension do you use to save links? It seems that there are a few different ones. (For me it's Pinboard Plus, but occasionally it fails.)
- lordfosco 9y agoMaybe take a look at Shiori (https://aki-null.net/shiori/ https://aki-null.net/shiori/). It's more of a stand alone app rather than a Chrome Extension but the well crafted solution (afaik works with chrome and safari) combines pretty much all needed features. Basically use it on a daily basis for the saving process although I have to say that I prefer Alfred App scripts to access the bookmarks on my Mac.
- thameera 9y agoI use the bookmarklet. No overhead, plain simple.
- davewongillies 9y agoI've been using Pinput for Pinboard and have been very happy with it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pinput-for-pinboard/dpbpmblpmphlphljmcahiifjcmcdpjna https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pinput-for-pinboar...
- dyu- 9y agoIf anyone wants to export their bookmarks and self-host, try [1]. It has the ability to import from both delicious and chrome. I've used delicious since 2008 (~22k bookmarks) and stopped using it last year when it was sold to Delicious Media (it was becoming unreliable/unstable). 1. https://github.com/dyu/bookmarks/ https://github.com/dyu/bookmarks/ Disclosure: I started the project Edited: added timeline
- erickhill 9y agoIf you aren't familiar with Maciej Cegłowski, the creator and owner of Pinboard, his Twitter feed is worth a follow. He has an excellent sense of humor and timely snark. https://twitter.com/pinboard/ https://twitter.com/pinboard/
- vermontdevil 9y agoHis speeches (posted on his blog) are great too.
- Huhty 9y agoPrice: $35,000 confirmed. Not bad! https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/06/01/its-the-end-of-an-era-as-pinboard-buys-and-shutters-del-icio-us/ https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/06/01/its-the-end-of-an-era...
- dtien 9y agoThat has to be a joke by Maciej... right?! Whatever you may think about delicious past/present, the brand name alone should be worth more than that. Than you add in the domain, the SEO juice that must still remain w/ a ton of delicious URLs, the free marketing that he's generated purely from this acquisition, and I could probably think of 5 other immediate wins that would justify that price. If seriously just $35K, bravo!
- aaron-lebo 9y agoOld domains don't matter. He's not going to make 35k from this, at least not any time soon. The fact that it's been through like four companies at this point and none felt they could make it valuable tells you a lot.
- Implicated 9y ago"Old domains don't matter." For SEO purposes they certainly do. The domain itself is worth $35k easy to people who know how to take advantage of that age.
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- dtien 9y agoNo, you're missing the point. Idlewords already has a business doing the EXACT SAME THING, So the domain itself doesn't matter, but the history of delicious and it's decade(?) of existence of SEO history, of backlinks, of blogs, articles writing about 'best bookmarking service' now can essentially be used to redirect to Pinboard. And I'm sure, Pinboard has a super low run rate . So any additional revenue is likely straight to the bottom line. Which means, he paid $35K for an immediate 500K new visits(?) to his business today? Plus the continual link and SEO juice he'll get from all future searches that people do for bookmarking service. And just to note: searched "bookmarking service" . Top link from 2017 points to Delicious still ( no Pinboard ). Next 2 contain links to Delicious, hell even one that is talking about the death of Google's bookmarking service references Delicious. What. A. Steal.
- davidcelis 9y agoTruly the end of an era. I'll miss Maciej's delicious Delicious bashing.
- trynewideas 9y agoThe hell makes you think he'll stop bashing it now that he owns it? I figure he'll bash it more, and in more detail, now that he has to deal with the code
- incanus77 9y agoI built a five-year career of self-employment on the back of a Mac app called Pukka which was itself built upon Delicious. http://codesorcery.net/2006/02/26/hello-world http://codesorcery.net/2006/02/26/hello-world I turned the interest in the app into my first piece of commercial software which, coming from an open source and free software background, was actually pretty daunting. I timidly started charging five bucks in the pre-App Store days, before eventually raising the price over time to make it more sustainable. http://codesorcery.net/2006/05/03/so-really-whats-the-deal http://codesorcery.net/2006/05/03/so-really-whats-the-deal I had ups and downs, launched a second app (Meerkat, for SSH tunneling), but eventually realized I wasn't really an indie product person as much as I was a people and services one, so I ended up doing about 80% consulting and 20% Mac software, including Pukka. I eventually ended up folding up shop after I went to work for Mapbox full-time in 2011. http://codesorcery.net/2012/09/06/sunset http://codesorcery.net/2012/09/06/sunset This is something Maciej even wrote about. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/243511937722376192 https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/243511937722376192 So I'll always have a spot in my heart for Delicious, and this seems a fitting and appropriate end. I'm so glad its content will remain available in perpetuity.
- groby_b 9y agoThank you for Pukka. It was an awesome client.
- idlewords 9y agoPukka was great, and it's so nice to hear from you in this thread!
- markdown 9y agoThanks for Meerkat. Nifty little app.
- stadeschuldt 9y agoPukka was one of the first apps I bought on the mac. Thank you.
- jonaf 9y agoTangential, but what made you decide to go back to full time employment? Also, did you just not enjoy working on a product as much as consulting work, or was it simply not as lucrative/sustainable/reliable?
- triangleman 9y agoMaciej, when you finally tame this site, can I email you and see if my old bookmarks are lurking around in there? I've got over 9000 and I have exported them before but somehow all the tags were lost.
- idlewords 9y agoSure. Note though that if they predate the Avos sale, they're likely gone unless you opted in.
- VectorLock 9y agoHow much do you think it cost em?
- notadoc 9y agoI had no idea delicious was still around.
- dejv 9y agoNext acquisition target should be Instapaper.
- jeffbax 9y agoThey are owned by Pinterest, so unlikely.
- nilved 9y agoThis is the greatest thing I've read in a while.
- bitsoda 9y agoAbout a year ago I went into my Pocket and Pinboard archives and realized my collection had ballooned to well-over 10,000 items. Yet, I rarely, if ever, went back to dig up old links so I did a mass purging and closed my Pinboard account. I still use Pocket to save links I plan to read within a week, but I no longer archive anything and keep the list to < 10 items. I'm not sure what the point of this comment was, but lately I've been thinking about physical vs digital hoarding and thought I would share.
- Jerry2 9y agoHow do I export my bookmarks out of Delicious? Option to do that has been removed :(
- williamle8300 9y ago> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. Wha... not sure if he's letting the success get to his head, or he is actually trying to ward off competitors. Real innovative people are motivated by challenges like this so he's gonna have to eat his hat for saying that.
- afthonos 9y ago…I think he was joking that Pinboard is still around.
- ubernostrum 9y agonot sure if he's letting the success get to his head, or he is actually trying to ward off competitors Have you considered the possibility that he's using some humor to point out the fate of all the much-better-funded but now-defunct competitors that a typical HN commenter would've expected to crush Pinboard and win the market?
- iomike 9y agothe word you're looking for is humor.
- bambax 9y agoCongrats! this is excellent news, and simply, well, excellent. Awaiting the news regarding Bed Bug Registry vs booking.com
- newman314 9y agoOne thing I always wanted was a personal search engine for my Delicious link content (and Pocket saves). That way, I would have able to just use that as external memory for those tip-of-the-tongue moments.
- vvvkkk 9y agoTry https://bubblehunt.com https://bubblehunt.com - it's search platform, where you can upload your bookmarks and get own search system with indexing, directories (if you need it and other cool things like privacy and so on)
- tptacek 9y agoPinboard does this. For crypto papers, I search Pinboard about as much as I search Google.
- coleca 9y agoTIL Delicious hadn't already been killed by Yahoo! All kidding aside though they were one of the first to have a really cool domain name. It will always be del.icio.us to me.
- Crontab 9y agoI am having a hard time understanding why this purchase makes sense, unless one simply wanted to resell the domain name. Pinboard, to me, is more valuable than Delicious is.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoLove the announcement. It is so clear, direct, and funny and makes almost anything written by a corporation sound weird and artificial. Also, > Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. Brilliant.
- squillful 9y agoI was a longtime Delicious user, but it really fell apart after the Yahoo acquisition. I'm happy to hear that it won't disappear. I've recently switched to raindrop.io, which is an excellent replacement. Bookmarking serves two purposes for me: 1) It provides a way to record sites I don't visit often, which I hope I'll be able to find easily in the future if needed. 2) It provides me with easy access to the sites I visit regularly on all devices, without restricting me to a specific browser, and with an aesthetically pleasing and intuitive UI like Speed Dial https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpebmajhhopeonhlcgidhclcccjcik?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe... I want the record of these two kinds of pages to live in one place, and while Delicious and Pinboard were close, I felt that they never quite met that need.
- joshu 9y agoWoohoo! Congrats, Maciej!
- muppetman 9y agoI can't stop laughing. After years of laughing at them, mocking them and generally just being a hilarious thorn in their side, he's bought them! This is just the most fantastic thing I've read today and probably will be all week. Month, for that matter. I also love his comment "I am the greatest!" As a customer, yes, yes you are.
- fiatjaf 9y agoBest acquisition letter ever written.
- _jal 9y agoThis demonstrates that there is justice in the world. I love it. Been using Pinboard since the strange pricing model. It is the only "cloud" service I use, and ever since I wrote some little utilities for searching the automated backup I keep from the command line, I actually mainly use the service because there are tools for easily adding to the store from the browser and an Iphone app. In general, Pinboard is my idea of how a successful, solid internet service business looks. Find a niche, occupy it well enough that people want to give you money, and continually make it better for the users. (That last bit is important - Google used to be good for me as a user, but they've "improved" to the point that I don't want them in my life.)
- iomike 9y agopinboard has always been better, like the Gen-X brother that taught you how to play guitar and helped to wash puke out of your jacket after a late night
- clebio 9y agoWhen I abandoned Delicious, started using Diigo, and it still works fine [1]. Curious no one's mentioned it here. https://www.diigo.com/ https://www.diigo.com/ Edit: [1]: fine, not great. It's got some weird usability flaws that someone thought would be either a good idea or just good lock-in. But they're mostly avoidable.
- j45 9y agoI noticed no one had mentioned diigo as well. I use it primarily for it's ability not just to save bookmarks, but to annotate the few sentences of a link that I want to recall. It's incredibly valuable over time to be able to search what I wanted to remember about a link.
- tomphoolery 9y ago> Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. that made me laugh! OH NOES ITS A MONORPOLY!!11
- hanru 9y agoTwo posts made my day today: this one and the "Fuck Facebook" one.
- nl 9y agoAnother should-have-been from the Web2.0 days which Yahoo screwed up. Delicious should have become Pinterest Flickr should have become Instagram
- timkeller 9y ago> Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. Man, I love Maciej's way with words.
- mistermann 9y agoI loved that line as well.
- jacobr 9y agoI remember being very passionate about "folksonomy", tag clouds, microformats and things related to the delicious community. I wonder if that lived on on some corner of the Internet.
- xiaoma 9y agoWill users be able to delete their data like Delicious used to let them?
- real-hacker 9y agoThis is amazing. One-man operation defeats venture capital backed product. I wonder how many paying users does pinboard have?
- jtcond13 9y ago24K. See: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
- midgetjones 9y agoMaciej, I'm guessing you now own the `icio.us` domain. Any plans for more subdomains? I can see several opportunities: susp.icio.us pern.icio.us capr.icio.us ausp.icio.us avar.icio.us lubr.icio.us verm.icio.us phen.icio.us
- wanda 9y agoThat's just plain v.icio.us
- Asparagirl 9y agoWhat a meretr.icio.us idea!
- midgetjones 9y agoDamn it, Maciej! https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/871944794343301120 https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/871944794343301120
- JimWestergren 9y agoWhat happened to the delicious.com domain? Is that included in the sale?
- grappler 9y agoI'd think/hope that the ultimate resting place of services that have “a fascinating piece of web history” is with the Internet Archive or similar, as an alternative to orphaning a bunch of links.
- j45 9y agoIn my mind I don't bookmark pages as much as sentences or passages from a bookmark which I then go search for, either by keyword or string. I am a heavy user of Diigo for it's annotation/highlighting feature for that reason. I pretty much can't read or surf online without it. https://www.diigo.com/index https://www.diigo.com/index Is there any plan to add this type of feature to Pinboard? Pinboard seems much simpler and more performant and I'd love to have an alternative/backup.
- HangLoose 9y agoRecently found this list of 150+ alternative (social) bookmarking services: https://tagpacker.com/user/social.bookmarking.tools https://tagpacker.com/user/social.bookmarking.tools Finally, I moved my bookmarks to TagPacker.