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I tried Pinboard earlier this year. I found it too slow and was having issues with just general timeouts trying to categorize my bookmarks. I requested a refun

by skeppy 6y ago

I tried Pinboard earlier this year. I found it too slow and was having issues with just general timeouts trying to categorize my bookmarks. I requested a refund and got it straightaway. Along with a kind reply from the owner. No issues. (I think I had paid via PayPal so I was hardly worried). Also... $22. Must everything be a free trial? There’s a lot of issues and costs associated with that for businesses (and increasingly regulation). Now that I see this post from the owner, I’m inclined to sign back up again. I could have been one of those actually attempting to do a mass import when he was fixing it. And him being on 10-year old tech probably greatly contributed to my personal experience. As the product itself goes, I think it’s worthy and useful. Having it be mobile-friendly will be helpful not so much for me but when I want to share a list of links to some other people I know who haven’t used a full-size keyboard in five years.

idlewords 6y ago
Hey, thanks for reconsidering the site! It sounds like you caught things in mid-maintenance, or on a day when someone decided to crawl everything with no pause between requests. For what it's worth, one feature I want to make work on the site is "create a sharable list of links to give people", it's a use case that comes up a lot.
- pcglue 6y ago
  While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?
  - idlewords 6y ago
    There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.
    - pcglue 6y ago
      But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?
      - pcglue 6y ago
        OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.
        idlewords 6y ago
        Yeah, it's done by a background script. But genuine orphan tags should not be possible.
cpach 6y ago
FWIW, it can happen from time to time that Pinboard is a bit slow, but IME it’s not very often. It mostly works fine.

by skeppy 6y ago

idlewords 6y ago

Hey, thanks for reconsidering the site! It sounds like you caught things in mid-maintenance, or on a day when someone decided to crawl everything with no pause between requests. For what it's worth, one feature I want to make work on the site is "create a sharable list of links to give people", it's a use case that comes up a lot.

pcglue 6y ago
While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?
- idlewords 6y ago
  There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.
  - pcglue 6y ago
    But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks. Does it just take a while to be removed?
    - pcglue 6y ago
      OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.
      - idlewords 6y ago
        Yeah, it's done by a background script. But genuine orphan tags should not be possible.

cpach 6y ago

FWIW, it can happen from time to time that Pinboard is a bit slow, but IME it’s not very often. It mostly works fine.