I notice that idlewords is recently active on HN despite being impossible (for me at least) to get hold of by email - if you're reading this, would you resolve the above issue at least? Then I can finish manually scraping the archive I have built up, since I've been unable to persuade you to prepare a backup of it for me and I'm now concerned the site will go offline without warning.

From Pinboard's Twitter mentions, I can see I'm not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.

Overall, it's left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I'd also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.

I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it's still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?

Full-text search is regularly broken, archiving doesn't work sometimes, and most recently my >5yr archiving account was disabled on 4/1 with no warning or ability to re-up, so as far as I know I've lost archived bookmarks from up to a decade ago (don't remember when I turned on the service). It doesn't look like

When I tried to re-up my archiving account, I selected 10 years, but was charged for 1 year (without the 10 yr discount, of course) instead.

I really have enjoyed using Pinboard, and have been since at least 2011 (when the entry was created in 1pw), but this is a bummer and I'm not sure what to do. I really respect Maciej and wish him the best, and would love to keep using Pinboard.

Edit: Maciej, I hear you're in Taiwan. I'd love to give you some recommendations off the beaten path!

For the last 4 months, my paid archiving account has almost completely stopped archiving bookmarks. I tried setting up another account as a trial, and that had the same problem. Worse, my wife made an account last summer, and the full text search of her bookmarks has never worked at all (it throws up an error message).

I've sent several emails to Maciej over the last few months without any replies (apart from one email cancelling the extra account I'd set up, so I know my emails are received).

This is a really frustrating experience! I've been really happy with Pinboard for many years, and paid up front for several years of archiving. There is also now a wonderful MacOS/iOS client ("Pins for Pinboard").

I feel bad posting a thread here, but it seems to be impossible to contact support, and I hope that there are still other Pinboard users (and perhaps even Maciej) here who might have more of an idea what's going on (e.g. whether this is affecting all accounts).

I would really love to be able to carry on using Pinboard, but I have no idea whether to expect it to ever start working again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183419

Is anything new for anyone? My archiving accounts still don't work, I've tried emailing a few times asking for a refund (after many emails asking for a fix), but haven't heard anything back.

I've also compiled a list of many of the alternatives that have been mentioned on HN in the past:
-TinyGem
-Buku (FOSS)
-GGather
-Diigo
-historio.us
-espial (FOSS)
-BrainTool
-Larder
-Are.na
-ArchiveBox (FOSS)

If anyone's had a good experience with an alternative please vouch for it as many pinboard users are looking for a new home.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375

My own situation is unchanged: paid archiving accounts aren't archiving, and one of them isn't functioning at all (can't even view the bookmarks for individual tags), and I haven't had a reply to the many emails I've sent Maciej.

Looking around for alternatives, Raindrop.io looks good, but there was this negative experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24792652

I also just found this detailed comparison of the two sites which is not hugely encouraging about either (although most of the negatives about either are not relevant to my use case):

https://dsalo.info/pinboard-vs-raindrop-two-bookmark-apps-enter/

I'm inclined to try shifting to Raindrop, but I'm curious as to what other people are doing.

Recently I resubscribed, but alas, archival is again not working. At 85% of my bookmarks archival seems to have stopped.

Do all of you Pinboard users on HN not have any problems with it? Am I just the outlier?

Like the original, alternatives should at the very least have tagging, comments, portable backups & import functionality, simple bookmarking from mainstream desktop and mobile browsers, and archiving (downloadable PDFs of all your bookmarks, in case of link rot).

The problem I'm having is that Pinboard's crawler is overwriting previously cached copies with 500/40x errors if the page is now offline. I need to know if they keep historical copies or the "last known good" version and if not, sadly need to migrate everything yet again to a new system.

If anyone has any info I would very much appreciate it. I know idlewords is an HN user too so I figured this site was my next best place to look.

Does anyone have experience with alternatives and with the migration process?

— Chrome extension consistently failing to perform as it should

— Too much downtime, too many performance issues

— Pretty much no new features... ever

I've emailed Maciej about turning this into a subscription business (to support development, vs one lifetime payment) but he doesn't seem interested.

I would love another, more expensive but better and more reliable service for saving my precious bookmarks.

This is really my extended brain and I go back to stuff I save multiple times every single day... I want it to be great!

Does anyone have suggestions, please? Thanks!

While 25$ is not a big amount, migrating the data from one to another if I'm not happy could definitely be a PITA

I am curious to know about which pinboard.in alternative you use in your day to day life?

since Pinboard's support and responsiveness rivals Google's, have others seen the same problems as I have over the last months?

1. Archiving stopped working seven weeks ago; no archive icons are shown next to the bookmarks (and that's nothing new, it stops every now and then and resumes working, but now it seems to be dead for good).

2. On some days new bookmarks are marked "500", all of them, across all domains. Clicking the reload icon next to the bookmark has worked so far, but it's getting tedious.

Three thing I'm most curious about - growth in user base, revenues & profitability over the years.

If you can share numbers, that would be fantastic.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12059965

It's getting exhausting. I like to be informed. I like to know what people are talking about and like to be able to have a point of view. I like to have an opinion and be able to argue it. But I have realized it's just getting to be too much.

Currently my instapaper account has some 800 articles I have yet to read. Kindle has about 10 books I want to read. pinboard account has about 100 unread articles most of which are small books.

Any advice on what I should do? Do I just purge them?

I’ve used a variety of tools (simple browser bookmarks, Pinboard, Evernote, a text file, etc) but have never been very happy with any of the solutions.

Anyone have great tools or methods of storing bits of info for later access?

I’m thinking something that at a minimum has:

- Search

- Tagging

- Support for different content types (links, text, video embeds, photos, etc)

- Also would be nice to have mobile app, browser extension, API, Zappier integration, etc

Any suggestions?

We wanted an app that extends your brain by:

- making it super fast to add new things, urls, todos, just throwing everything at it that is in your brain

- automatically extracting relevant content like text, audio, video, images (using oembed but also scraping the page identifying the relevant content)

- quickly finding your notes with instant-search

- keeping things private or making them public (to share them on twitter, facebook)...

My public things: http://thinkery.me/nader

Example of extracted page (truncated due to copyright reasons, private things dont get truncated): http://thinkery.me/nader/4d2ec7f67477595c14000000

Example of oembed content: http://thinkery.me/nader/4d245b10747759f448010000

We're not perfectly sure what direction to take. What we're sure of is that this needs a working mobile version but for the rest...would you rather focus on making the app more social or add features like:

- assigning things to / inviting other people (@-syntax?)?

- dragging'n'dropping of images into it?

- create filters so you can only display private / public things?

- extracting even more content by aggregating similar things?

- automatically retrieve tweets you favorited?

It would be awesome and very much appreciated if you gave your thoughts, feedback or posted any bugs you encounter. Also say if this is a tool you would use or what is missing so you would use it.

Looking forward to it!

PS: There is a delicious importer in case you want to try that out: http://thinkery.me/delicious.php

I'm a film/VFX person and I've come to realize over the years that one of the most important things for me to finish a job properly is organisation. Yet more and more I've realised that no one is really offering a tool that can help me organize the vast amounts of information that I get from the Web and want to keep for later inspiration in my creative work.

Right now I use:
Pinterest for visual stuff
Pinboard for links
Simplenote for my own notetaking

All of this is labelled and organised, within its own platform. But there is no ONE platform that allows me to have all of this organised and searching through all 3 or 4 of them is hard. Not even to mention how many iPhone photos I have

Let's say for instance I want to make a short Film with some VFX work on it.

I need:
Celtx or Final Draft where I'll write the screenplay
Pinterest/instagram where I might look for inspiration for the VFX/locations/look
I might see things on the street and take iPhone photos
I'll use pinboard web links

I am visual guy, do some HTML/CSS and branching out into other languages. Now because this issue is getting worse and worse for me I'm starting to think that I might need to learn MySQL or something similar.

The idea of relational databases for my work seems very powerful. I need something that combines the power of Simplenote/Pinterest/Pinboard into one consolidated Platform.

I imagine this might take me 1/2 years to figure out, I'm fine with that. But considering the vast knowledge of the HN crowd, can anyone think of a better solution for this? Am I on the right Track? Does anyone have a better suggestion on what I could do?

Cheers

I thought I may have found that with raindrop.io, but searching for a single specific string of text (like 'wine' in a HN URL of people discussing the 'wine' emulator) does not seemingly work with Raindrop. It seems that unless the string is in the URL title or description, the Bookmark service fails/isn't actually performing a full text search of a previously bookmarked page.

http://yumtab.com/

It's a universal recipe box that saves recipe bookmarks along with things like ingredients, which get extracted from the page automatically. It also has a basic planner, shopping list, and sharing features.

Existing solutions were inadequate. There are a few "universal recipe box" / recipe bookmarking sites out there, but they all suffer from one or more of: restricted site support, need to copy & paste ingredients manually, or cumbersome, ad-riddled interface.

I tried to focus on making YumTab a useful complement to recipe sites for actual cooks, rather than just another source of food porn (not that there's anything wrong with that -- there's just plenty of good solutions already).

The homepage design has gone through many iterations. Comments about that would be appreciated.

I'm more coder than hustler at this point, so promotion & monetization suggestions welcome. I've considered requiring one-time payments, a la pinboard.in (maybe with a free limit of 100 recipes or so) but I'm not sure how well that would work. I'd like to avoid plastering the site with ads.

FYI, it uses PHP on the frontend and Clojure on the backend.

Thank you!

I'd love to get your input on bookmarking services. I've been using Kippt (http://kippt.com/) for over a year but, as the service has evolved, it's becoming slower and clunkier.

Here's what I'm looking for:

- Quick way to bookmark

- Ability to tag pages

- Easy way to search by tag or page title

- Nice to have: full text search based on the page's content

A couple options out there that I haven't tried (let me know if you have):

- http://pinboard.in/

- https://gimmebar.com/

Looking forward to your thoughts / recommendations!