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> What does the future hold for Pinboard? Death! The bus that one day comes for us all! The skeletal, icy hand on an unprepared shoulder! Pain, a flash of light

> What does the future hold for Pinboard? Death! The bus that one day comes for us all! The skeletal, icy hand on an unprepared shoulder! Pain, a flash of light, then numbing darkness. So back up your bookmarks. Is he shutting saying he's shutting it down, or just saying that's the future eventually?

bigiain 7y ago
I'm 100% confident Maciej's "Our incredible journey!" blog post will one day be the most hilarious and popular entry here: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com Fortunately, today is not that day. I hope it's a long time in the future...
- workergnome 7y ago
  If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post. Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.
LeoPanthera 7y ago
Yes. Eventually.
SonicSoul 7y ago
He just described every digital service. There is no such thing as buying audible books or kindle books or iTunes movies. We’re just leasing it until their runway ends or they change their TOS
LeonB 7y ago
Just the latter.
pvg 7y ago
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
austhrow743 7y ago
Its a service ran by a single person. He croaks and its gone with no warning. You should anticipate that as how your relationship with any non-big name service you use will end because that's how it will. It just won't be working one day, then the next. You'll hit the internet to find that the person running it died a month ago and the business with them.
- idlewords 7y ago
  I agree, with the caveat that the same holds for big-name services. It's only the mode of death that's different (bus accident vs. "our incredible journey" blog post).
  - austhrow743 7y ago
    In my experience the big names tend to give a warning but i agree that its best to plan for instant death in that case as well.
    - gloflo 7y ago
      He just gave you that warning.
  - perilunar 7y ago
    Do you have a designated successor who can inherit the site and keep it working if you do suffer from an untimely accident?
- jbotz 7y ago
  It's a curious fact that although of course humans are mortal, and in theory corporations aren't, in practice there are only a very tiny percentage of corporations that have outlasted a typical human lifespan. In fact the average lifespan of an SP&P 500 company is well under 20 years. Google it.
  - austhrow743 7y ago
    I don't think that's all that relevant as a customer unless those SP&P 500 companies ending regularly involves their services being turned off suddenly without warning. I imagine a lot of those companies ending is the result of acquisitions/mergers where the services continue uninterrupted and in the vast majority of cases where that isn't true, there's a warning that it will end.

bigiain 7y ago

I'm 100% confident Maciej's "Our incredible journey!" blog post will one day be the most hilarious and popular entry here: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com Fortunately, today is not that day. I hope it's a long time in the future...

workergnome 7y ago
If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post. Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.

LeoPanthera 7y ago

Yes. Eventually.

SonicSoul 7y ago

He just described every digital service. There is no such thing as buying audible books or kindle books or iTunes movies. We’re just leasing it until their runway ends or they change their TOS

LeonB 7y ago

Just the latter.

pvg 7y ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

austhrow743 7y ago

Its a service ran by a single person. He croaks and its gone with no warning. You should anticipate that as how your relationship with any non-big name service you use will end because that's how it will. It just won't be working one day, then the next. You'll hit the internet to find that the person running it died a month ago and the business with them.

idlewords 7y ago
I agree, with the caveat that the same holds for big-name services. It's only the mode of death that's different (bus accident vs. "our incredible journey" blog post).
- austhrow743 7y ago
  In my experience the big names tend to give a warning but i agree that its best to plan for instant death in that case as well.
  - gloflo 7y ago
    He just gave you that warning.
- perilunar 7y ago
  Do you have a designated successor who can inherit the site and keep it working if you do suffer from an untimely accident?
jbotz 7y ago
It's a curious fact that although of course humans are mortal, and in theory corporations aren't, in practice there are only a very tiny percentage of corporations that have outlasted a typical human lifespan. In fact the average lifespan of an SP&P 500 company is well under 20 years. Google it.
- austhrow743 7y ago
  I don't think that's all that relevant as a customer unless those SP&P 500 companies ending regularly involves their services being turned off suddenly without warning. I imagine a lot of those companies ending is the result of acquisitions/mergers where the services continue uninterrupted and in the vast majority of cases where that isn't true, there's a warning that it will end.