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Pinboard.in is down and DNS has expired

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It dropped out somewhere around 0200 PST. If you haven't downloaded your bookmarks in a while and this outage has reminded you of that, you can still reach it at 64.62.134.190.

64.62.134.190 is returning for me "You are not in the right place "

I believe you would need to add it to your local dns host configuration.

For example (on a mac): https://setapp.com/how-to/edit-mac-hosts-file

64.62.134.190 pinboard.in

How exactly does one download their bookmarks?

Settings > Backup

As someone on Twitter noticed, his most recent post on HN[1] is in a relevant thread:

Perhaps he was swayed by Julia Evans's blog post, and this downtime is part of the journey to DNS nirvana.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818160

I would hope that he wouldn't do that so abruptly w/o any notice to his users. That's disconcerting.

Amusing coincidence I think -- that linked article is about switching your home network's DNS resolver to your own (not switching to your own DNS server for your website).

Based on whois info, it looks like he's using the DNSMadeEasy service for Pinboard's DNS.

And it is now up for me.

Working for me as well.

Might as well ask, what are the pinboard alternatives?

I moved to pinboard because it WAS the alternative :D I use Pocket because it's made by one person who clearly was passionate about it and it has been running without fault for years.

The closest alternative might be Pocket[0], it's a "part of the Mozilla family of products".

[0]: https://getpocket.com/en/

> I use Pocket because it's made by one person who clearly was passionate about it and it has been running without fault for years.

Did you mean you use Pinboard because it's made by one person? Or is it the same case w/ Pocket? That'd be news to me!

Yea, I meant Pinboard :D Had a proper brainfart when writing it seems.

https://raindrop.io/

https://www.diigo.com/

I wrote a DM to him on twitter this morning.

Might be a while before they respond: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472

> Dec 29, 2021: Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow @idlewords for blog post notifications, http://blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff.

All good an nice, but the blog is down too =)

Yeah... Sent him an email now as well. Somebody in the US that could text or call him? Number here https://twitter.com/Pinboard - maybe he does not even know.

Sigh. It's 2022. I should not have to call the site owner to tell him that his site is down. Based on his own numbers, he's been losing users since 2017. This might go belly-up one day.

I was able to get to the blog with https://blog.pinboard.in/ instead of http://blog.pinboard.in/

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