Pinterest seems like such a squandered opportunity to me. It’s classic short term thinking vs long term vision. I basically ignore any Pinterest links because

Pinterest seems like such a squandered opportunity to me. It’s classic short term thinking vs long term vision. I basically ignore any Pinterest links because they’re just shoe pages and a login trap driven by mindlessly chasing engagement metrics. It’s Experts Exchange that was wiped out by Stack Overflow. The costs of this should be low. If YouTube can host videos basically for free and without forcing you to login, Pinterest can host a free links and images. Make your site easy to use and a C pleasure to use and you build long term loyalty, behavior and engagement. The way they’re doing it screams of bad product management where engagement inevitably drops and any number of external factors will be blamed. Google downranking, competition, Facebook/Instagram, whatever. Never any internal failure. Basically the Yelp playbook for the last decade.