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Is Pinboard still maintained by just one person?*

(*)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069474

Yes. Sometimes not even one!

Yeah, I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I should trust all my bookmarks with a guy who seems to have a knack for disappearing alone into strange corners of the world. Even if he is occasionally protected by a company of tanks and a Hind helicopter :)

Just make daily backups. That goes for any bookmarking service you use.

Couldn't you build that into Pinboard (via Dropbox or similar).

Yeah, but then you're trusting me to do the backups for you. That's much less protection.

yep, this in a crontab somewhere is all you need:

  curl -k -o ~/backups/pinboard-backups/pinboard-$(date +\%y\%m\%d).json 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?&auth_token=username:APItokenhere&format=json'

I meant it as a defense against concern against the bus scenario.

The backups would run while the site is live and if it ever spontaneously disappears then users would have an up-to-date backup available.

Better than the other "cloud" options, which end up getting sold or shuttered every year or two.

Also, if you are a customer, you get to follow the hilarious twitter account.*

*This is not true; anyone can and should follow the hilarious twitter account.

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