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Raindrop.io is aggressively priced for all that it provides (I have switched from pinboard to this, and it is a near 1:1 replacement). In fact, it provides features such as highlighting / annotation that Pinboard.in will never implement.

Wallabag, Linkding, and Archivebox are three selfhosted options that come to mind, that serve similar purposes.

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I opened up raindrop.io and I see a video, and what appears to be a bootstrap.js site. I cannot express how much these things sway me away from the service. I will never use a site like this, if I can help it. Also, apparently there's an app. Facepalm.

The best part of pinboard is that there is none of this... stuff.

That "app" thing kept me from trying Raindrop for a long time, too. You can ignore it, it's just poor copy as far as I can tell.

Once I finally got around to trying it, I found it to be a performant webapp. More performant than most.

The home page really doesn't present it in a good light, but the actual service is good, you should give it a shot.

Highlighting is the killer feature in Raindrop for me -- it's such a quick way to help me remember why I bookmarked something.

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