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Comment by egonschiele | Hacker News Reader

Just curious, why are you planning to migrate away from Pinboard? I have been meaning to sign up for years.

I've been been a Pinboard fan for years. I paid $11 for lifetime access back in 2011, and "upgraded" to an annual plan with archival in 2021 (mostly because I wanted to support the continued development of Pinboard, and that the time Marciej mentioned new features that were supposedly coming). I love Maciej's work, writing[0], and general vibe. Pinboard acquiring del.icio.us[1] after Yahoo drove it into the ground is one of the most delicious (pardon the pun) acquisition stories in tech history I think. I also enjoyed his micro-incubator thing[2] (I think he was giving grants of $50 or something).

Unfortunately over the past several years it just feels like he's gotten burnt out on Pinboard and has stopped developing and is barely supporting it. I guess that's fine if everything works properly, but I don't really have a lot of confidence in the future of Pinboard anymore. I personally haven't had any actual problems with Pinboard yet, but have read several accounts by others who have and have found support poor to non-existent.

[0]: https://idlewords.com/

[1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...

[2]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/01/pinboard_co_prosperity_winn...

Have you also considered Linkhut as an alternative? [1] I like it a lot, but I'm addicted to Pinboard's autocompletion of tags, so I haven't made an ultimate switch (I'm also with Pinboard since ~2010-2011).

Would be great, indeed, to see a working instance of Webtag.

1: https://ln.ht

I’ll check it out, thanks! Ideally I’m looking for something that’s self-hosted and also supports archival, but maybe that’s too much to ask.

Curious, what do you mean by “autocompletion of tags”?

Just the typical thing: while adding a bookmark, when I start typing in the first letters of a tag (e.g. "hack" for "hackernews"), Pinboard is offering a drop-down menu with possible matches. Linkhut didn't have this last time I checked. It is maybe not a big issue, though -- possibly, relying on your own memory (not programmatically offered suggestions), your tagcloud may get less messy over time; you'll end up with a smaller amount of tags, which may be a good thing at times.

I think I like 'em both, Pinboard and Linkhut, though.

I plan on leaving. I am unable to download all copies of ny bookmarks from my archival account. Have sent support request about this never any response. Support requests are often not answered. Google around , you will see plenty of other complaints in my opinion.

Pinboard is pretty great, especially with a perpetual accpubt

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