I see a lot of similarities to the tobacco industry. The consumption of an unhealthy product is being marketed as a way to “slow down” from the stress of the day and being more mindful.
I was both a fan of del.icio.us (yahoo times) and later pinboard.in, but I'm more and more loosing faith and trust in the guy who operates it. No mobile apps (all third party, relatively unreliable, to one that I've used disappeared from the store overnight). Sometimes slow or down and no status page. Twitter account is being used for political messages on US politics (no objection against the expression of opinion - but why can't he use a personal twitter account instead of mixing it up with his business?). The Chrome addon broke and didn't get fixed (using an unofficial clone now). At least it's possible to export the bookmarks as html,xml,json - which I do regularly.
(Having said that: I have been a paying customer for years).
Your experience mirrors my own. While I had hopes that pinboard would stay stable, perhaps even slowly add features over time I’ve seen the opposite. The lack of status page has left me thinking that perhaps I should ping the maintainer to ask if some downtime is planned. Alas their twitter account doesn’t appear to be business related.
I’m on the lookout for a replacement but not many competitors can match the open data format.
Having had the concerns and experienced the issues described, I eventually built a clone of Pinboard and now run it privately. Added Telegram bot and iOS shortcuts for dumping links, adjusted tag system for my needs, and so on. Having control over your bookmark archive feels great, and then you can transform it into some kind of a knowledge management system like Zettelkasten. In any case I don’t see how the author is going to work on Pinboard being busy as he is with other issues.
"Oracle's litigious nature". What a beautifully short and concise phrase. I immediately had to write this down and stash it as an argument for the next time someone at work pushes to go for "Oracle $product" after having received a bottle of wine from their sales team.
it's one Microsoft's greatest business achievements to have won against the OS/2 and BeOS competition and it's one of Microsoft's biggest business failures to have not won against Google's Android.
I'm again and again amazed by what dogs can accomplish with their nose. If this really works (they say it does) this might have a bigger impact on cybersecurity than it appears at first. Think about dissidents, whistleblowers, etc.
