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I switched to Pinboard (http://pinboard.in http://pinboard.in) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing i

I switched to Pinboard (http://pinboard.in http://pinboard.in) in April and I highly recommend it. It's not free, but it's well worth looking at. (The pricing is a one-time fee that climbs as the site grows. It's currently $6.89. There's also a service to archive your bookmarks, but I haven't tried that. That's $25 a year currently.) Here's their (probably about to be updated) "Should you switch from Delicious?" page: http://pinboard.in/switch/ http://pinboard.in/switch/

mccutchen 16y ago
Seconded. I've been a happy Pinboard user since the service launched. Haven't had any trouble.
mrduncan 16y ago
This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94
- Groxx 16y ago
  It's 1/10 of a cent. So $6.94 means there are 6,940 people using it. http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ (normally in a "why?" popup when you would make a new account)
- 100k 16y ago
  It's number of users * $0.001.
- zdw 16y ago
  It goes up a penny every 10 users (see here: http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ http://pinboard.in/help/fee/) Right now it's 6.97, so at least 50 signups since the parent (~$350 in revenue in 20 minutes)
- miniatureape 16y ago
  I've been seeing service unavailable pages every few times I load pinboard. I wonder how their infrastructure will handle this unexpected surge.
  - idlewords 16y ago
    So far it's holding up (about 40 hps) but we seem to be getting these intermittent connection drops. Waiting for things to calm down a bit before we start monkeying with configuration.
- tomh 16y ago
  I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.
  - jamesbritt 16y ago
    I'm paying 7.22. Office pool: predict the price at GMT 00:00 tonight. :)
    - aurora72 16y ago
      It's $7.37 now. But it doesn't matter how much they charge because I will never be using their service, anyway.
      - StavrosK 16y ago
        Hmm, why is that?
    - ams6110 16y ago
      They're going to have to cap it at some point, because it will become prohibitive. At 500,000 users it would be $500 to sign up.
      - jacquesm 16y ago
        It's economies of scale reversed, normally you'd expect the price for everybody to go down over time, not up. Wonder what the way is that is justified to the end users.
        MichaelMassing 16y ago
        In order to arrive at economies of scale, you have to first provide for the expenses of ramp-up. So far, admission is nominal for the value its payers perceive. Plotting growth against current cost should give a pretty good forecast of how much is too much. Of course, under the current special circumstances, we could even see a freeze.
pragmatic 16y ago
I just signed up to pinboard. Importing all my delicious bookmarks now.
poet 16y ago
Pinboard is a service I've been wanting to purchase for years, but I never have because of how I've seen pvg (one of the founders) act on HN. The anti-hive mind attitude is desperately needed, but it's not a blanket license to disagree with everything without so much as a critical thought. I'm still trying to decide whether this is petty of me because it seems to be a really well done service.

mccutchen 16y ago

Seconded. I've been a happy Pinboard user since the service launched. Haven't had any trouble.

mrduncan 16y ago

This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94

Groxx 16y ago
It's 1/10 of a cent. So $6.94 means there are 6,940 people using it. http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ (normally in a "why?" popup when you would make a new account)
100k 16y ago
It's number of users * $0.001.
zdw 16y ago
It goes up a penny every 10 users (see here: http://pinboard.in/help/fee/ http://pinboard.in/help/fee/) Right now it's 6.97, so at least 50 signups since the parent (~$350 in revenue in 20 minutes)
miniatureape 16y ago
I've been seeing service unavailable pages every few times I load pinboard. I wonder how their infrastructure will handle this unexpected surge.
- idlewords 16y ago
  So far it's holding up (about 40 hps) but we seem to be getting these intermittent connection drops. Waiting for things to calm down a bit before we start monkeying with configuration.
tomh 16y ago
I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  I'm paying 7.22. Office pool: predict the price at GMT 00:00 tonight. :)
  - aurora72 16y ago
    It's $7.37 now. But it doesn't matter how much they charge because I will never be using their service, anyway.
    - StavrosK 16y ago
      Hmm, why is that?
  - ams6110 16y ago
    They're going to have to cap it at some point, because it will become prohibitive. At 500,000 users it would be $500 to sign up.
    - jacquesm 16y ago
      It's economies of scale reversed, normally you'd expect the price for everybody to go down over time, not up. Wonder what the way is that is justified to the end users.
      - MichaelMassing 16y ago
        In order to arrive at economies of scale, you have to first provide for the expenses of ramp-up. So far, admission is nominal for the value its payers perceive. Plotting growth against current cost should give a pretty good forecast of how much is too much. Of course, under the current special circumstances, we could even see a freeze.

pragmatic 16y ago

I just signed up to pinboard. Importing all my delicious bookmarks now.

poet 16y ago

Pinboard is a service I've been wanting to purchase for years, but I never have because of how I've seen pvg (one of the founders) act on HN. The anti-hive mind attitude is desperately needed, but it's not a blanket license to disagree with everything without so much as a critical thought. I'm still trying to decide whether this is petty of me because it seems to be a really well done service.