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> 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
by 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.
- myth_drannon 9y agoI remember the announcement and the huge exodus from delicious to pinboard. That's when I heard of pinboard first. The import feature was under heavy load and from what I remember it took a week(or couple of days? ) to import your bookmarks from delicious or was it from an exported file...
- gsylvie 9y agoHere's the blog entry Maciej wrote about the exodus: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/03/anatomy_of_a_crushing/ My favourite line comes from the tweet storm (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-delicious-to-pinboard.html http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/the-small-exodus-from-...): > "there are worse things than being DDOS'ed by people trying to give you money"