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Pinboard Turns Six

by thisisblurry on 7/9/15, 6:39 PM with 17 comments

  • by icey on 7/9/15, 7:43 PM

    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.

  • by sireat on 7/9/15, 7:27 PM

    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?

  • by 100k on 7/9/15, 7:22 PM

    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...

  • by mcovey on 7/10/15, 1:24 PM

    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.

  • by metasean on 7/9/15, 7:39 PM

    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!

  • by flashman on 7/9/15, 10:54 PM

    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.

  • by sosuke on 7/9/15, 7:35 PM

    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?

  • by nindalf on 7/10/15, 3:56 AM

    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.