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Thank you for a quick reply! You are right, I didn't notice the responsiveness, my bad! As for the Chrome extension, I had to use an alternative one, because t
by tomaskafka 2y ago
Thank you for a quick reply! You are right, I didn't notice the responsiveness, my bad!
As for the Chrome extension, I had to use an alternative one, because the official one cannot be configured to have a single click to save - it shows up a menu from which I always need to pick one of similarly sounding options having to do with saving. I'd love to be able to disable the features I don't want, and have the tool lead directly to save if that's the only feature I have left working.
As for the mobile (iOS), the situation is really bleak, as most of the iOS apps seem to be abandoned, and the only one that seems to work fine for saving (Pins) has a weird way of syncing that only syncs up some number of latest pins, and then only being able to offer tags that are among those. This results in the app not offering the tags I am sure I have, and me mistyping them, and then making a mess in my tags.
Tbh, I have multiple times considered spending a day with Cline/Cursor to make a simple save-only iOS app, but then I always thought - wait, isn't that what I am paying a yearly subscription for?
So, for me, paths to saving (= main use case of Pinboard for me) are clunky on both browser and phone I use :/.
I don't want to hate, but talking in Kano model terms, while I really appreciate Pinboard being a stable and reliable service, over time these paper cuts shifted from nice to haves into a missing basic needs, which cause me to look into alternatives.
- idlewords 2y agoThis is very useful feedback, thank you! For the Chrome extension, I started by just getting compliant with manifest v3, so Chrome would stop complaining. But now that it's relatively fresh in my mind, I'm going to redesign it so that the most common case (save this page) is one-click. I think the reason a lot of the mobile apps suck is that the API is underpowered to do what those apps need. Once I get the v2 API out the door, if it turns out that no one wants to build a proper modern app on it, I'll roll up my sleeves and do it myself. But getting that new API stable and running is top priority. I would love to hear your thoughts about what a minimalist 'save only' iOS app should behave like, either here or at support@pinboard.in.
- tomaskafka 2y agoThank you, will write! Btw, if you haven't yet tried Cline or some similar 'agent-like' developer environment, definitely do - I found it's great for doing easy work (on smaller projects) in a fields in which I don't have enough knowledge about eg. extension APIs, but I know enough about principles and web technologies to give a good code review. I imagine it could make adapting the Chrome extension much easier.