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0 pointsskeppy5y ago0 comments

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.

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idlewords5y ago

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.

pcglue5y ago

While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?

idlewords5y ago

There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.

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cpach5y ago

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.

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0 pointsskeppy5y ago0 comments

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).

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idlewords5y ago

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.

pcglue5y ago

While you're here, add a "used none" filter (alongside existing "used once") in tag editor please?

idlewords5y ago

There's no such thing, though. All tags are on at least one bookmark by definition.

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cpach5y ago

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.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse