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I looked at Wallabag and went for Pinboard again. Even subscribed for two years.

Seems, it was a mistake.

Archiving stopped around 85% of my bookmarks.

I've had those problems before, especially when the owner played U.S. politics and didn't care much about Pinboard anymore. I still went back.

Pinboard's support doesn't reply to mails, Pinboard's Twitter account doesn't reply, either.

I've asked for a refund (within the one week refund window). No reply.

Maybe he'll reply here. Last time I had such problems he also ignored my mails for a long time and finally replied on HN.

People, look at Wallabag seriously. Maybe Pocket. And maybe Archivebox (https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox).

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Same thing happened to me, I kept contacting him every six months or so for a couple of years and did not get a response for years after an advertised feature of the paid subcription did not work for me.. I asked for a fix or a refund, never got either. Kind of annoying to see him spend a lot of time on activism while paying for a service I never received and could not get a refund for

Have you taken a look at https://raindrop.io/ ?

It’s actively being worked on with native apps, is competitively priced at $28/yr, though it carries the same risk as Pinboard (of being run by a solo founder).

It looks like raindrop is a for-profit company which does not publish source code under a free license, or at least i could not find it on the homepage. In comparison, wallabag is fully free software: you can self-host it, or you can have a commercial contract with the maintainers to host it for you. In both cases, you can donate money for development.

The main developer publishes regularly about the finances of the project and the economic sustainability of free-software. The last update was only available in french though: https://nicolas.loeuillet.org/billets/2022/01/03/wallabagit-...

To be fair, wallabag is also mostly maintained by a single person. However, there's a wide community so it's unlikely the software would go unmaintained if a bus accident occurred. I must admit i have no idea about the "hosted" side of things and if the maintainer has a backup plan for someone to take over in case they're not available.

It has been obvious to me for a while that Pinboard is sort of a dying product. It seems great for what it does but as open source solutions fill in the gaps it becomes pointless. Now if someone will make a pass-like pinboard app that syncs with Git using markdown files, that would be slick as can be. Tired or solutions that want to use SQL for storage.

I also use Pinboard and also have had no replies to emails.

I actually like the service but I don't use the archive feature. It's minimal, text based and provides rss feeds for most things. It also plays nice with Miniflux.

I'm going to look at ArchiveBox but I hope someone else takes over Pinboard and can give it some proper time and attention

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