Pinboard Turns Six

79 points by thisisblurry 10 years ago | 17 comments

icey 10 years ago |

Pinboard is one of those pieces of software that has "just worked" since I first signed on. It's been a surprisingly useful part of my daily life, and the lack of bullshit when using it has been awesome. Also: Maciej is an incredible writer. If you haven't read his blog (http://idlewords.com/) or his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/baconmeteor) you really should.

hn9780470248775 10 years ago | |

You might be interested in his current kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-wor...

Send Idle Words to Antarctica

"I propose to visit Antarctica in February, 2016 and write a series of at least seven blog posts about what I see and learn. In a break with past practice, I will publish the entire series within four months of completing the trip.

The trip I have in mind is a 36-day organized sea cruise on a Russian icebreaker to the Ross Ice Shelf and Bay of Whales, with stops along the way at Australian and American bases (including McMurdo sound) and numerous subantarctic islands."

sireat 10 years ago |

Chalk me up as yet another happy user of Pinboard.

I put up with the ridiculously slow Delicious bookmarking for far too long only migrating to Pinboard two years ago.

I have about 18k bookmarks on pinboard and speed has not suffered at all. Bookmarking is very fast.

About the only criticism would be that search of my bookmark tags seems a bit more primitive than on Delicious.

Can I actually search multiple tags (not text) in my bookmarks? For example all bookmarks with hn and programming?

100k 10 years ago | |

You can do that: https://pinboard.in/faq/#filter_by_tags

vijayr 10 years ago | |

Another user of pinboard here (not a heavy user though). Are there any other examples of services that are simple and just work? Seems like this is the holy grail of SaaS - a simple service, barebones design, something that just works out of the box, happy customers. Great service.

100k 10 years ago |

The post ends with "Please don't forget to make backups!"

I love Maciej's sense of humor and honesty.

Now, to download my bookmarks...

moot 10 years ago | |

Maciej is easily one of my favorite writers.

And speakers! I recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c

acqq 10 years ago | |

Regarding backups... I'm paid user and I don't have any idea how I'd back up the content of the mirrored pages. I understand that the bookmarks alone can be exported.

On another side, I always hoped that I won't have to backup anything from pinboard.in.

mcovey 10 years ago |

I love Pinboard, it's been the right thing the whole time, with no uncomfortable changes or redesigns.

The few extra features I want, I've added myself with userscripts and userstyles, and my own massively customized bookmarklet. The only thing I could want in this regard is some slightly more flexible HTML on Pinboard's pages itself, as it is it can be a bit tough to target certain elements with CSS selectors.

metasean 10 years ago |

I've been a member since December of 2010 (when there was some trouble brewing with Del.icio.us) and I've never been disappointed!

flashman 10 years ago |

More than anything else, I'm glad something on the scale of Pinboard can exist. Just a man providing a service he built lovingly, to a base of happy customers.

> I am a terrible businessman.

Only from a certain point of view.

sosuke 10 years ago |

I went to sign up and was very confused by the recurring fee. I fully expected to pay like $25 bucks once by now. I wonder how the one time fee would have looked currently?

TillE 10 years ago | |

I paid $10.38 about a year ago. I think he just switched the one-time fee to an annual one for new accounts. Still really cheap for a great service.

hn9780470248775 10 years ago | |

»I changed the business model of the site in January from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it.«

nindalf 10 years ago |

Sorry for OT, but could anyone tell me how to pronounce "Maciej"? I usually refer to him as "the pinboard guy" because I'm not sure.

jarek 10 years ago | |

There's a sample of the Polish pronunciation on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Maciej

nindalf 10 years ago | | |

Thank you! :)