Can someone give me some hints about pinboard's advantages over, lets say, delicious?
I know people love it over here but from what I've read it seems to be more about the openness of the creator that the product itself.
I know people love it over here but from what I've read it seems to be more about the openness of the creator that the product itself.
Switched to Pinboard and never looked back. And it's stayed just as rock-solid as it was on day one.
Also, if you're using Delicious to archive some personal bookmarks, I trust those to be on Maciej's servers more than Yahoo servers. I don't know what kind of privacy settings Delicious has, but even if it's as painless as Pinboard's, I wouldn't really trust it.
In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.
So it's not really about whether another bookmarking service can deliver or not, for me. It's whether they're faithful steward.
Well, there is this blog entry from August:
Researching Link Rot "This week I'll be running a little experiment in link rot,in preparation for an upcoming conference talk" https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/
"If you are uncomfortable with this research and wish to opt out, please email me with your username, and I'll keep your bookmarks out of the pool. If you have questions, ask me on Twitter or email me privately, and I'll be happy to answer them."
Edit after downvote: I use Pinboard and like it, think Maciej is a fantastic guy, and don't personally have problems with this study, but come on guys. He'll be alright with some dissent.
The things I like about Pinboard:
The UI is simple, intuitive, and works on my computers, my iPad, my phone, etc.
It doesn't do a million other things and lose focus on bookmarking.
It doesn't integrate with Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest.
It doesn't rollout new changes every other week.
I'm not worried about the site getting sold to a different company and being ruined.
I'm not worried about the current owner deciding he needs to change things up and ruining it.
It's always online. In the past, even when getting pounded by new sign ups (i.e. after Delicious has a new release) the site's stayed online. I think the worst I've seen is he throttled or disabled the importing tasks for a little bit.
It charged me up front instead of making money off of me on the backend by selling my data to advertisers.
You can link a Twitter account, for one advantage of using the Twitter favorite mechanism to automatically bookmark (optionally archive) in Pinboard from any Twitter client.