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Comment by l0b0 | Hacker News Reader

As a power user (21k bookmarks, 16k tags) I'm sorry to see Pinboard dying. I don't want any more features, but the killer feature introduced a few years, ago, archiving, is long dead:

  > You asked to download your archive on 2022-10-04 17:36:42.
  > You'll get email once the download link is ready.

Yeah, nah. I've requested this many times since it stopped working, and that was probably more than a year ago now.

Fortunately XML/HTML/JSON backups still work, so moving to another service should be easy.

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Follow-up: Weirdly, it seems the backend for the archive feature is working fine - it's reporting what looks like a correct number of bookmarks, and says the backup is currently 51 GB, up from 30 GB when I last downloaded in July 2020. I guess there's an automation step missing (including throttling!), and then it could just run itself.

51GB for bookmarks? What am I missing here?

as mentioned in GP, pinboard can archive the content of webpages you bookmark, most likely the large amount of data is archives

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I've seen people (on here?) suggest that Maciej is on a long period of leave from Pinboard, and will definitely return to breathe fresh life into the product. But I don't think I've seen an official statement from him to that effect, not on the blog anyway https://blog.pinboard.in/

Do we know if he's okay?

> Do we know if he's okay?

He last commented on HN four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33557751

Did they publish that fact anywhere?

I apparently misread the tweet last year. They took the year off twitter LOL.

https://twitter.com/pinboard/

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