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> What does the future hold for Pinboard? Death! The bus that one day comes for us all! The skeletal, icy hand on an unprepared shoulder! Pain, a flash of light, then numbing darkness. So back up your bookmarks.

Is he shutting saying he's shutting it down, or just saying that's the future eventually?

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He just described every digital service. There is no such thing as buying audible books or kindle books or iTunes movies. We’re just leasing it until their runway ends or they change their TOS

I'm 100% confident Maciej's "Our incredible journey!" blog post will one day be the most hilarious and popular entry here:

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com

Fortunately, today is not that day. I hope it's a long time in the future...

If there was anything keeping on the internet, it is the fact that I may some day get to read that post.

Hopefully some day deep into my retirement.

Its a service ran by a single person. He croaks and its gone with no warning.

You should anticipate that as how your relationship with any non-big name service you use will end because that's how it will. It just won't be working one day, then the next. You'll hit the internet to find that the person running it died a month ago and the business with them.

I agree, with the caveat that the same holds for big-name services. It's only the mode of death that's different (bus accident vs. "our incredible journey" blog post).

In my experience the big names tend to give a warning but i agree that its best to plan for instant death in that case as well.

He just gave you that warning.

Do you have a designated successor who can inherit the site and keep it working if you do suffer from an untimely accident?

It's a curious fact that although of course humans are mortal, and in theory corporations aren't, in practice there are only a very tiny percentage of corporations that have outlasted a typical human lifespan. In fact the average lifespan of an SP&P 500 company is well under 20 years. Google it.

I don't think that's all that relevant as a customer unless those SP&P 500 companies ending regularly involves their services being turned off suddenly without warning.

I imagine a lot of those companies ending is the result of acquisitions/mergers where the services continue uninterrupted and in the vast majority of cases where that isn't true, there's a warning that it will end.

You can expect a warning.. unless their database gets overwritten and there are no backups! https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/01/02/1546214/why-mir...

(Granted, not an S&P500 company, but those have been known to fuck up as well)

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Yes.

Eventually.

Just the latter.

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