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The financial justification was probably as a way of buying users: > Users will have an opportunity to migrate their bookmarks to a Pinboard account, which cos
by rattray 9y ago
The financial justification was probably as a way of buying users:
> Users will have an opportunity to migrate their bookmarks to a Pinboard account, which costs $11/year.
It's also possible maciej wants to ~~do Machine Learning on the data~~, as they have "over a billion bookmarks", but that seems unlikely to me.
I'd bet the "real reason" truly was sentimental:
> Delicious ... is a fascinating piece of web history. ... I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web.
- riking 9y ago>It's also possible maciej wants to ~~do Machine Learning on the data~~, Excuse me? "Unlikely"? Understatement of the thread. And I wouldn't describe that sentence as a sentimental motivation, but rather an _archival_ motivation. Preserve your history or it will be lost.