I've been a pinboard user for ~6 years and I won't be renewing my subscription.
After a few years of using it I signed up for an archival account (which costs extra $39 per year). My credit card was charged, but I wasn't able to archive any page; the option to do so was never there. I emailed support (I guess it goes directly to Maciej) and NEVER got an answer, despite being a paid customer and following up several times. I ended up having to do a charge-back on my credit card. Very unprofessional.
On the flip side, that made me look into self hosting and now I happily run a linkding [1] instance on my NAS. I never really cared about the social aspect of it.
In the old, good days of del.icio.us social aspect was really robust. People were putting lots of stuff online. It was easy for me to find an academic or author I liked and dig through her bookmarks to my delight and betterment. It was still just the old good internet with real people online, sharing really interesting stuff. I would also post lots of stuff and we used sharing features with friends a lot (you could actually add #for:username).
I would be happy to have access to some delicious dumps, I know people made them before delicious went down.
People were starting to crawl it. Surely it was huge, they were probably crawling bits they were interested in. I am absolutely positive there were people trying to crawl a lot. It was a panic of kind, like with geocities. Still, would love to see what was preserved.
I doubt they got very far. Most of the pages cut off very early since humans never went more than a page or two in.
Maybe the new version wasn’t as good but when I left it wasn’t easy. Any at scale scraping was easy to detect since the site was so resource impoverished that it would have a performance impact.
The archiving happens automatically; you shouldn't need to do anything except request an archive backup[1]. Unfortunately those requests are not honoured, and haven't been for a long time (my last successful backup was in July 2020).
Yup. I have an archival account and none of my archived articles work. Some of them show an error, I hit the button to recrawl, but that just results in the error reappearing after a while. Others don’t show an error, but when I want to view the archived version, it says it didn’t find it. So I have a bunch of links in there, which already link-rotted, and weren’t successfully archived by Pinboard.
I’m considering moving to just using the SavePage (or whatever it was called) browser extension with a text file for the metadata (url, tags, titles, notes) on a NAS.
> I’m considering moving to just using the SavePage (or whatever it was called) browser extension with a text file for the metadata (url, tags, titles, notes) on a NAS.
Try Zotero. (I tend not to use its notes and tags features, however—even though it has them. I just defer to Hypothesis for that.)
Ah my memory is blurry in the specifics. I think the issue was then that the archived link never showed up. Definitely it didn't work. I checked an rechecked the FAQ to make sure that in fact it wasn't working for me, and it wasn't that I didn't know how to use it.
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Actually... I just checked my emails. My account never upgraded after payment (it was still standard) and the check-mark didn't appear next to my links. And of course there was no way for me to see the archived page or request an archive backup.
Was a Pinboard user since year 1 was my favorite online service for years,but the site went to trash after the creator became obsessed with politics in 2016 and moved his focus to tweeting and poli-larping rather than his customers.
This is true, even though I personally think his political thinking and rhetoric is brilliant and valuable. It doesn’t excuse him of taking care of the people who take care of him. Spend a few hours on your business, Maciej!
After a few years of using it I signed up for an archival account (which costs extra $39 per year). My credit card was charged, but I wasn't able to archive any page; the option to do so was never there. I emailed support (I guess it goes directly to Maciej) and NEVER got an answer, despite being a paid customer and following up several times. I ended up having to do a charge-back on my credit card. Very unprofessional.
On the flip side, that made me look into self hosting and now I happily run a linkding [1] instance on my NAS. I never really cared about the social aspect of it.
[1] https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding