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I was both a fan of del.icio.us (yahoo times) and later pinboard.in, but I'm more and more loosing faith and trust in the guy who operates it. No mobile apps (a

by teinac 7y ago

I was both a fan of del.icio.us (yahoo times) and later pinboard.in, but I'm more and more loosing faith and trust in the guy who operates it. No mobile apps (all third party, relatively unreliable, to one that I've used disappeared from the store overnight). Sometimes slow or down and no status page. Twitter account is being used for political messages on US politics (no objection against the expression of opinion - but why can't he use a personal twitter account instead of mixing it up with his business?). The Chrome addon broke and didn't get fixed (using an unofficial clone now). At least it's possible to export the bookmarks as html,xml,json - which I do regularly. (Having said that: I have been a paying customer for years).

idlewords 7y ago
I fixed the Chrome plugin some months ago, take another look. Thank you for your grumpy business :-)
bananaheel 7y ago
Your experience mirrors my own. While I had hopes that pinboard would stay stable, perhaps even slowly add features over time I’ve seen the opposite. The lack of status page has left me thinking that perhaps I should ping the maintainer to ask if some downtime is planned. Alas their twitter account doesn’t appear to be business related. I’m on the lookout for a replacement but not many competitors can match the open data format.
- j_crick 7y ago
  Having had the concerns and experienced the issues described, I eventually built a clone of Pinboard and now run it privately. Added Telegram bot and iOS shortcuts for dumping links, adjusted tag system for my needs, and so on. Having control over your bookmark archive feels great, and then you can transform it into some kind of a knowledge management system like Zettelkasten. In any case I don’t see how the author is going to work on Pinboard being busy as he is with other issues.

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I was both a fan of del.icio.us (yahoo times) and later pinboard.in, but I'm more and more loosing faith and trust in the guy who operates it. No mobile apps (a

by teinac 7y ago

idlewords 7y ago
I fixed the Chrome plugin some months ago, take another look. Thank you for your grumpy business :-)
bananaheel 7y ago
Your experience mirrors my own. While I had hopes that pinboard would stay stable, perhaps even slowly add features over time I’ve seen the opposite. The lack of status page has left me thinking that perhaps I should ping the maintainer to ask if some downtime is planned. Alas their twitter account doesn’t appear to be business related. I’m on the lookout for a replacement but not many competitors can match the open data format.
- j_crick 7y ago
  Having had the concerns and experienced the issues described, I eventually built a clone of Pinboard and now run it privately. Added Telegram bot and iOS shortcuts for dumping links, adjusted tag system for my needs, and so on. Having control over your bookmark archive feels great, and then you can transform it into some kind of a knowledge management system like Zettelkasten. In any case I don’t see how the author is going to work on Pinboard being busy as he is with other issues.