Pinboard Turns Eleven
blog.pinboard.in"Much of the core code on the site dated back to 2009-2010 and was written by Past Me, a vindictive, inscrutable nemesis who devoted his life to sabotaging Present Me.
Doing this on a live system is like performing kidney transplants on a playing mariachi band. The best case is that no one notices a change in the music; you chloroform the players one at a time and try to keep a steady hand while the band plays on. The worst case scenario is that the music stops and there is no way to unfix what you broke, just an angry mob. It is very scary."
OMG. I think I stopped and laughed for a solid 30 seconds when I read this.
I don't think I've ever felt so "seen" in my whole 25 years as a programmer.
Maciej is an outstanding writer. I recommend reading his blog (https://idlewords.com/) if you haven't already.
Broken record: I get that people are really into tagging and I see how I could, like, instead of writing HN comments or playing Dark Souls, nurture and groom an elegant garden of them for my own 10,000 bookmarks.
But that's not why I use Pinboard. It turns out ("bookmark people" apparently already know this) that a huge collection of bookmarks basically functions as a personal search engine. My primary interface to Pinboard is a "pin:" search engine shortcut.
What makes this so effective for me is that if you have an archive account (you should have an archive account; it's the best money I've spent for a computer thing easily), Pinboard indexes the contents of PDF, so I can instantly search the contents of all the papers I've bookmarked.
I don't even think about what I'm bookmarking, what to tag things, or even what to title them; I just cram 'em all in there and let search figure it out. And it works great. Pinboard is a steal.
Thanks for the testimonial!
I thought bookmarking was incredibly stupid until Joshua Schachter explained it to me like this: when you save something, tag it with the words you would use to search for it six months later. It blew my mind and eventually gave me a livelihood.
18,000+ bookmarks for me, although I started with del.icio.us back in 2006 and imported them when it went away. So yeah, I'm a fan.
Pinboard is my secret weapon for those obnoxious lists of citations I sometimes get to spackle onto the end of comments on the internet. I've been on there since December 27, 2010 (Merry Christmas to me), and currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags. I'd have a few hundred more if I could hurry up and transfer all the open tabs from ios safari.
...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers. I've dabbled with the API enough that I could pull everything down on fairly short notice, but I sure hope I won't need to anytime soon.
You're worrying about a business with a estimated minimum profit margin of 79%, using the most pessimistic assumptions I could think of. I wouldn't be worrying yet.
In 2017^: revenue was $259k, costs were estimated $17k, archives 31.8TBy, 126M URLs.
In 2020: revenue was $212k, costs were not specified, archives 82TBy, 192M URLs.
Archives are 2.58x higher, URLs are 1.52x higher. So taking the higher of the two multiples and pessimistically multiplying the 2017 costs of $17k (the cloud has gotten cheaper but let's ignore that), we get $44k in costs (this is probably too high by 2x), leaving a profit of $168k.
Users dropped from 29K to 19K, so you should start worrying when users reaches 5K, assuming that costs scale linearly with data (which they definitely do not).
In all likelihood, you probably don't need to worry until users reaches 2K. At current rate, that's probably about a decade, assuming ten more years of no changes to the site (such as mobile support) and etc.
Thanks for reassuring these message board Aristotles that my business is solvent!
A couple of data points to help you calculate:
* active users is not the same as paying users, it's people who did something in the last month
* costs in 2020 will be something like $17,000 for hosting plus $8,000 for hardware and a few thousand bucks in travel/hotel costs to the colo. So say $30K.
* the reason hardware costs are high in 2020 is... massive expansion, so maybe people in this thread are missing something
I am momentarily saddened that my estimate of overestimate was overestimated. Thank you for the actual data, hello LTNS, and congratulations on 11 years :)
> ...so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers
My story might be relevant. I only recently learned about Pinboard. $22/year isn't terrible, but it's just a bookmarking service. Free trial? Nope - you need to pull out your credit card and fork over $22. You get seven days to request a refund. (Will I actually get it? No idea who's holding my money.) He's happy to boast about competitors disappearing, but I use OneNote, and Microsoft isn't going anywhere. Yes, Microsoft is horrible, but they're also spectacularly wealthy. Ultimately I didn't subscribe.
Businesses need to ask from time to time if their business model is the right one for the current year. Expecting people that don't know you to give you $22 for a bookmarking service, without a trial period, might be wishful thinking in 2020.
> but I use OneNote, and Microsoft isn't going anywhere.
"I use Google Reader, and Google isn't going anywhere."
I imagine requiring a credit card up-front cuts down on a ton of automated spam, and this tradeoff is worth it to pinboard.
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.
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.
While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?
There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.
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?
OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.
Yeah, it's done by a background script. But genuine orphan tags should not be possible.
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.
To me it’s definitely worth the price. Dunno why he doesn’t do trials though. Maybe it’s not worth the hassle? Those interested in the service can get a good feeling for it by looking at the product tour and recent bookmarks. And if you sign up and don’t like it then $22 is not that much money[1]. (No idea if he does refunds or not.)
[1] In a Western country that is. I know $22 can be a lot of money depending on the circumstances.
He does refunds, I got one from him, after a very short delay. I got the feeling it was a pain in the ass for him to do it, but he did it anyway.
I later resubscribed at a higher price (I am fickle and decided I did actually want to use the service) - which I wouldn't have done had the customer service been poor when I asked for the refund first time.
It's not a pain in the ass at all; for Stripe it's a single click operation for me. With PayPal it requires a brief trip to their site.
Glad you decided to come back!
Great to hear I didn't put you into too much difficulty!
On reading my comment back it seemed a bit snarky - just want to be clear to all it was nothing Maciej said in his emails around the refund that made me think it was a pain to do - he was perfectly accommodating - I just personally assumed that it would have been annoying admin to issue the refund.
Thanks for making Pinboard Maciej.
> And if you sign up and don’t like it then $22 is not that much money[1].
??
I'm not giving $22 to someone I don't know and then saying, "Well the service sucks, but it's not much money." He claims to give refunds, but the time cost for me - assuming I actually get it - would be far more than $22. Again, this is 2020, the world has moved on from this type of business model.
Wait, the time cost of asking for a refund or the time cost of trying out a service you ended up not using? The former seems trifling, and the latter applies even if there was a free trial.
To me it’s definitely worth it since I think Pinboard is a really great service and I use it every day. YMMV.
the world has only moved away from this model because the world is filled with fake unprofitable companies filled to the brim with vc money while trying to monopolize their respective markets with too good to be true pricing.
Pinboard is an old school business. You pay money for a service, and if you don’t like it you get a refund.
Well, ask yourself this: what's the concrete value proposition you're buying into? "bookmarking" in itself is way too general and leaves you wondering why you want to spend 22$.
You're actually (a) leasing usage of affordances provided by a system which someone else took the time to design and build, and (b) leasing hosting for your collection of bookmarks on someone else's system.
Why would you do that? Because you don't want to do any of these things: You don't want to spend time downloading and installing some bookmarking program, you don't want to design and build it yourself, you don't want to deal with storing data locally (even though it might be really a simple sqlite3 database).
Likely, you've rationalized you're lack of want through convenience, security, risk of data loss, someone else has done a better job at "solving bookmarking", etc. etc.
This is a line of reasoning which is perfectly valid. It's totally fine just subscribe to a service. However, it just so happens that your demand for such a service creates a market. And it's equally valid for others to charge you for what they offer.
Everything else is just opportunity cost calculations on your end. You don't want to fork over 22$? That's valid. But then you have to abide by whatever else the market is going to offer. If Pinboard ends up losing subscribers to Microsoft and sunsetting, then that has nothing to do with the quality of the service, but the very fact that potential customers are far too keen on compromising what they want, need and value in favour of the free, yet less-then-ideal offering from a corporate competitor.
The problem with "free" is that it's the very bottom of the barrel. It doesn't pay the operating costs of a service. The difference between Microsoft and Pinboard is that the former has the financial leverage to cover the costs of a "free" tier. It's this leverage that defines the edge when it comes to conquering markets, as it allows corporations such as Microsoft to set up a far more effective sales funnel. It just so happens that it also drives competitors out of a market, and stalls any form of innovation. As far as Microsoft is concerned, they have no need to build a Pinboard clone with feature parity, if customers are all too willing to abide with whatever OneNote allows them to do, even when that's less then ideal.
In short, there's simply no such thing as a free lunch. Even if the market tries to convince you otherwise. It's totally valid to feel that Microsoft is "horrible", but by the same token, customers eagerly relying on "free" services equally sets the bar for them to simply get away with "horrible".
It's not necessarily a choice of "Pinboard" vs. "Microsoft" vs. "create your own bookmarking website."
For me, it's "Pinboard" vs. "text file". At $11/year, I would choose Pinboard any time. I've been a subscriber for years and I don't expect anything for free. But at $22/year, I'll go with the text file.
I was going to correct you on pricing because I did a one-time payment of about $11 back in 2010. It used to be that there was a one-time price that incremented as people signed up. So really early people could have paid a dollar or so, I guess.
But it's now a yearly fee. Which is good for us grandfathered people, since it means the service will stay around.
> currently have 8,698 bookmarks across 1,544 different tags
I'm at 17,614 bookmarks 2,530 tags. And it's incredibly valuable to be able to go back and find things, even things I bookmarked and categorized a long time ago.
> so I'm genuinely worried about those declining user numbers.
I agree. In fact, that was the second thing I noticed, right after the declining revenue numbers. Earlier this year I went ahead and paid for 5 years of archiving service (my account predates the switch away from a one-time payment so basic bookmarking is free) partly because I trust maciej to still be around in 5 years but mostly because I wanted to be sure I'm supporting the site.
I STRONGLY want this to be profitable and successful because it is such a valuable service.
If you read his 10 year post he mentions the drop in subscribers is due to his neglecting much needed maintainence and feature additions while working on other commitments (such as The Great Slate). Having made the requisite upgrades and so on, he is now, presumably, able to devote more time to these issues.
December 2009, 64179 bookmarks (2298 dead!), 2998 tags.
Almost all of those are automatic, though, from Twitter/Instagram/Pocket/RSS favouriting thanks to their own account linking and IFTTT.
I can recommend PushPin on iOS for that, it's another ten bucks (once) but well worth it if you are constantly on iOS devices and need Pinboard.
Nice! Thank you.
Member since 2012 (ah wut, I still have the activation email!), after migrating (easily) from a dying Delicious. Thank you so much for running this! As far as actually useful web services go (and holy crap is this useful!) it's by far the most stable I've ever used, and it never got bogged down in useless crap like 99% of other web services which constantly need to pivot while looking for a way to actually make money.
It's been a frickin' journey. ~2004, started using Delicious. ~2005, built my own search site because Delicious couldn't handle searching through a few thousand bookmarks with a few thousand tags! 2006, contacted by a researcher looking into tag clouds because mine had more unique tags than bookmarks. 2012, migrated to Pinboard for a fixed lifetime fee. Best money I ever spent! Today, heard about the bookmark archive functionality and signed up immediately.
Oh dear. I'm a positive newbie here! Found my original receipt; 1st Jan 2015 for the princely sum of $10,60 for lifetime membership. And I only have a measley 1680 links saved.
It's always a gamble with these one-time lifetime offers as you never know if the site's even going to be there in a few months time. But, even if Pinboard folded tomorrow, I'd still consider I got a great bargain.
I must admit my heart sank a bit when I read about the rewrite opening the door to new features. For my uses, Pinboard is pretty much perfect as is [and I've never noticed any problems using it on mobile]. I really hope the developer doesn't start adding loads of extra bells and whistles [read "bloat"] to try and attract new users. I just want my bookmarking service to be boring, reliable and so unintrusive that most of the time I forget it even exists... til I see an article like this on HN.
PS: Off-topic. But I really like the way "maciej" writes. He comes across as a genuinely down-to-earth, self-deprecating and funny guy. Such a refreshing change from all the 'trying-far-too-hard-to-be-hipster-cool' writing out there at the moment.
Having followed Maciej for a couple of years, I seriously doubt he'd ever fall into the trap of feature creep. He's one of the most pragmatic software engineers, if not people, I've ever encountered.
Also possibly the laziest man in north america!
The Russian and German sign-up page still reflects the old price. Story checks out! (Although I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a fellow Slav discount.)
But with a name like "five nines software" customer expectations should be implicitly tempered ;)
PPS: One of the other things I like about Pinboard [and one of the things that makes it so unobtrusive as to be forgettable --in a good way!] is that it doesn't feel the need to periodically expire my login session. I've probably had to re-log-in under a dozen times across all my various gadgets, over the more than five years I've been using it.
If only more websites were like that!
[Yes I'm looking at you eBay, Amazon et al... who greet me by name, show me what I've bought recently and then ask me to login!]
I think you can rest easy when it comes to new features. Pinboard has a pretty good track record of not changing what works well. The kind of stuff I want to add (ability to filter results by date, easier edit interface for tag gardening, API expansion) will not make the site any less boring.
Out of curiosity, what do you use to store and search bookmarks on mobile? Both the old (third-party) iOS app I used to use and the old macOS app I used to use have stopped working years ago due to neglect. So I use the service pretty sparingly on desktop and pretty much not at all on mobile.
I use Pinner on iOS. While I get the impression it's not actively maintained, it appears to still be working. I use it to store bookmarks from iOS Chrome on a regular basis (did so just earlier and the bookmark is up on Pinboard).
I'm on Android not iOS. But I use the Pinboard app. When I want to save a webpage, I use the "share link" menu [under the browser hamburger menu] to send it to the Pinboard app.
Definitely check out Pinkt for Pinboard [0]. It is a rather new Android Client for Pinboard which is actively maintained and has quite a nice UI - and besides that it is OSS.
[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fibelatti....
11 years? Wow. And here I am, ever since I saw this project I have been wanting to start something and its 11 years of just thinking.
I need to get going.
That picture of past you... what is going on? On the table I see the following beverages: wine, liquor, coffee, water. There's also a cheese grater. And what looks to be a bottle of pills. Okay. Now on the window sill behind you is ... I don't even know, coffee, a cleaning product, some napkins maybe, another wine bottle and other sundry items.
This looks like maybe a table shoved into the corner of a tiny restaurant, away from the main area.
Apparently it's night time.
I guess it's as good a place to write code as any other. :-)
From a past update:
"I launched the site in July 9, 2009 from a small kitchen in Botoșani, Romania."
https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/
I suspect that's the kitchen :) My own kitchen table during this confinement period isn't too dissimilar...
Yeah, that's my Romanian kitchen. The bottles are Transnistrian cognac, local red wine, and the empty glass that looks like a cooling tower is a Turkish tea glass. These are the rocket fuels that built Pinboard.
The white bottle is just Greek table salt, though. No fun pills.
I don’t think there is any service I’ve been more happy with the last decade than this one. The (optional) PDF archival in particular is great. I also appreciate that since I pay for it and it’s not freemium or anything, it won’t go away in a attempt to please investors.
Pinboard is ok, but recently I found myself to either just webclip the article into evernote, or make a note about it in Roam Research. Somehow just having tagged links doesn't work for me anymore.
Can you all share your workflow/use cases with this and other bookmarking services?
I’m geniounly curious because the way I treat bookmarks is that they are temporary links I wanna go back to, so they all end up being deleted sooner rather than later. When I want to visit a website I just type in the website’s name in my browser and either let autocomplete do its magic, or just let it take me to Google where I tap on the first link. The idea of keeping bookmarks saved and organized/tagged is alien to me.
I use kind of like my own personal Stack Overflow. I tag stuff with several (hopefully memorable) tags, and when I can't remember how to (whatever), I search and usually find an article which I thought was helpful enough at the time. Yup, I could google it too, but as you know, sometimes info is out of date, wrong, etc. I keep the good ones.
I also bookmark stuff I want to get back to; for instance, I do eventually want to start an SaaS, so I've got a lot of 'business', 'marketing', etc. links.
At work once, someone mentioned some particular technology and I said, "I think I have some links for that!" His office-mate promptly said, "You have a link for everything!" :-)
I have two use cases. The first is to keep track of interesting articles I find and plausibly want to refer back to in the future. A 3rd party browser extension and mobile app make saving very easy, and then I tag each item with a high-level category. This is also pretty painless, and brings a lot of value (otherwise you just have an unsorted collection of links - not helpful). An example is my 'long reads' tag https://pinboard.in/u:guyaglionby/t:long-read/. The 'unread' feature is also useful here - I've got >10 long reads banked for when I'm looking for things to do.
The second is as a kind of mechanism to give myself permission to close a bunch of tabs every time they accumulate. Each is _obviously_ open for a good reason and I may want to read it at some point, so sticking it on pinboard is a nice way of shoving them elsewhere. I don't save everything - curation is important (in the same way as with tagging). Lots of what remains are things that may be useful for me in the future but are not immediately, like design guides https://pinboard.in/u:guyaglionby/t:design/. Some of these things I leave as 'unread'; others that feel more like reference material I mark as 'read' immediately so as not to have them in my to-read queue.
> otherwise you just have an unsorted collection of links - not helpful
Yeah I think this is my problem. I’m on iOS so I use Safari’s reading list feature to keep track of articles I want to read. But it’s just a dump, no organization, and after I read an article I don’t know what to “do” with it anymore so I just delete it.
I think I need to figure out a system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again. Pinboard seems like it could help
> system where I actually refer back to things because I seem to google for the same things over and over again
Yep, this often frustratingly turns nothing up for me. Hence, Pinboard :)
I don't treat bookmarks as a list of sites. I treat them as a list of jumping-off points for any kind of resource whatsoever.
Everything I come across that I might want to be able to find my way back to goes into Pinboard as a bookmark.
The full-text indexing feature means it's my own personal search engine of (most things) I've ever seen. I imported my previous bookmarks, which go back to 1994.
Everything I come across that I will likely want to go back to and digest later goes into Pinboard as a bookmark set to 'unread'.
When I have some time to relax, catch up, and read, I open my list of unread bookmarks and work backwards. Or I skip back a month, or a year, or several. It's amazing what I'm reminded of. Sometimes I decide I don't care any more and delete or just keep links as bookmarks, but more often than not I'll go and read whatever it was I'd left as a gift for future me.
I don't use Pinboard (yet) but I have my own system of many thousands of bookmarks, and the reason is that I can't always remember stuff.
So if I see, say, a good online tool for checking an email for spam-like features, I might bookmark that with tags of 'email', 'spam', etc. Then if in future I don't need to Google "email spam tool" and find 1001 irrelevant things, I can just search my bookmarks instead and find that it was https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/ (I just did this very search as I couldn't remember what that tool was called).
Pretty much every valuable tool or site I've ever seen is organized in such a way that I can bring it up on a second's notice.
I also can bring up things I once thought were neat and that I've totally forgotten about just by searching for a tag.
I'm not much into tags, but Pinboard has a paid archiving upgrade (https://pinboard.in/upgrade/) that allows you to search within the archived full-text versions of your bookmarks. That's how I roll mostly.
I use Pinboard in combination with a Raspberry Pi (running Calibre + Mozilla Readability) as my Read Later service. Once per day the Raspberry Pi fetches unread bookmarks from Pinboard and compiles an eBook that is then sent wirelessly to my Kindle. This has replaced Instapaper/Pocket for me. Thanks to Mozilla Readability the text/image extraction works in most cases better than other Read Later services + I like having all my bookmarks in one place (and one service less to pay money for!). I've written a blog post about it and open-sourced all my work: https://christianhans.info/12791/running-your-own-read-later...
Mostly I save ideas for projects or personal development things that I need to do a more "deep read" of (this also allows me to tag it for that purpose, and when I want to go back to something I've worked on I can find references I've used for specific projects that I may not have saved elsewhere), things I've read that I might want to reference later/thought was a good read or interesting and tag it with the relevant stuff. Mostly I just use it as an instapaper backup, where I have it automatically save my Archived stories and it tags it with a "tagme" tag that I go through once a week or so.
Very recently I deployed (in my personal VPS) espial (https://github.com/jonschoning/espial) which basically a self-hosted pinboard clone. I'm extremely happy with it.
I wish it had a browser plugin but besides that it is amazing
I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.
I run www.historio.us and I reply to emails :P
He does! And unless I'm wrong, historio.us has been around as long as Pinboard but never gets half the HN love.
Most of that is on me, I haven't given it the love it deserves, but I'm currently rewriting it and will be modernizing it, making it responsive, and adding new features.
Enjoy, and congratulations on running a long-lived solvent business that actually answers its email.
Thank you, and likewise, congratulations for running a long-lived successful business!
replying to a goading competitor rather than an honest now-former customer with a legitimate complaint strikes me as a real classy business move.
just my opinion.
(i'm a customer, I love pinboard, and this affects nothing as far as i'm concerned.. I haven't ever needed customer service -- it just strikes me as rude.)
> poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.
I've had a similar experience. Last year the site just wasn't working when I needed it, so I did not renew and moved to Larder.
I know this comment doesn't add anything to the discussion, but I'm another happy user who loves the product and uses it daily. I feel like it gives me the superpower of being able to answer any question my teammates have with a dump of my favourite books / essays / papers on the subject.
If I have the time, I like to open up /recent[0] to see what's in there. /popular[1] is good too, but with /recent you usually find some obscure less popular (but still good) link that always surprises me. I am glad the Internet still has little rabbit-holes like this that you can get lost in.
I've signed up in September 2010 and been a loyal user ever since. Pinboard is pretty much my archive: cool things I've seen, project ideas, solutions, etc.
I imported my bookmarks into pinboard, but found it quite a chore to go through them and tag them properly, so I abandoned that. Firefox sync keeps my bookmarks available everywhere anyways.
Now I use pinboard for my youtube subscriptions, every time I subscribe to someone on youtube, I add it to pinboard and tag it.
Very useful when your subscriptions range from several different sports to tech or gaming.
Would do same for instagram but I have too many subscriptions and it's useless when someone changes their @account.
They could really do with a lists feature ala twitter.
I became a Pinboard customer on December 17, 2010 and currently have 7,940 bookmarks, the most recent pin was added yesterday.
It's a great service. I recommend it to everyone.
Thats very impressive. I joined in September 27, 2011 and have only 1,830 bookmarks.
Do you get a lot of value from them?
Note that this blog post is from 2020, but when I visit https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ then the top post is from 2017.
So many the technology refresh did break something! ;-)
Disclaimer: I'm a customer.
I use Pinboard since April 22, 2010. And I use it every day since then.
Best $6,28 I ever spent...
Pinboard is an abandoned graveyard, I requested a download of my archived bookmarks, got it like 6 months later - not 'under an hour' as promised, better late than never I suppose. I wont be renewing.
"Abandoned graveyard" is the whole bookmarking business model.
I got the bookmark sync one time purchase account years ago and used it for a couple of years but these days I just use Firefox sync and it solves most of what I cared about.
Wow! And thanks for such a great service. I have been a happy customer since 2013 and I believe I bought one of your promo - pay for lifetime account with some $10 or so. :-)
Some of the previous anniversary links are 404s. :)
2 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20110709213326/https://blog.pinb...
3 years: https://web.archive.org/web/20120713030912/http://blog.pinbo...
4 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/07/pinboard_is_four_years_old/
5 years (broken HTML in the elevenversary post): https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/07/pinboard_turns_five/
6--7 and 10 are valid.
Nine is apparently Right Out.
> Nine
Something happened in 2018. There are no stats for that year too.
> Every year when I don't forget I try to publish the same stats
This implies he just forgot about it.
Should have bookmarked them!
This is great :) idlewords is the author.
Not directly related to this post, but I highly recommend his other writing too. Gluten Free Antarctica is a personal favourite: https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
You fixed my [twitter search] bug!
Which one is that? I'm still trying to find a way to exclude the "twitter" tagged results from my searches.
Mine was the opposite. It stopping including any tweets I made after 3 July 2017 in my searches. It appeared to be still downloading them, just they were not included in searches. I think the bug was still present a few months ago. No idea if others were affected or just me.
I also saw a bug where it didn't include the end of tweets (possibly some sort of character limit). But that was pretty minor.
No mention of the price increase? Hm.
Maybe I'm being unfair but (solo?) people get bored.
People get bored of maintaining, polishing or developing new features once the revenue stream is consistent. The product stagnates. Income stream starts to dry. People that once could manage frugally get used to have plenty. What do they do to get back on track? They increase prices. This is the beggining of the end. An order of magnitude smaller, but been there.
Just looked; it's $22 to sign up now. That's quite a change!
Would love to see a Go-based bookmarking server (no JavaScript) and CLI/ncurses app that uses yaml/toml/json files for bookmarks:
google:
tags:
- search engine
url: https://google.com
duckduckgo:
tags:
- search engine
url: https://duckduckgo.comIs that your requirements doc? “As a customer, I want a bookmarking tool written in Go that uses yaml files”?
No, I am not a customer because I do not believe bookmarks should be something that you pay to host in the cloud. However, for a self-hosted alternative my suggestion would be awesome and likely superior as it could be synced with any provider (Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, Nextcloud, etc).