What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

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We've had two threads about Pinboard in the last few months:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183419https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375My own situation is unchanged: paid archiving accounts aren't archiving, and one of them isn't functioning at all (can't even view the bookmarks for individual tags), and I haven't had a reply to the many emails I've sent Maciej.Looking around for alternatives, Raindrop.io looks good, but there was this negative experience:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24792652I also just found this detailed comparison of the two sites which is not hugely encouraging about either (although most of the negatives about either are not relevant to my use case):https://dsalo.info/pinboard-vs-raindrop-two-bookmark-apps-enter/I'm inclined to try shifting to Raindrop, but I'm curious as to what other people are doing.

tsp · Accepted Answer

I have been using Pinboard for many years and switched to Raindrop ~2 years ago. I am 90% satisfied and would definitely recommend the switch. I made my decision to leave Pinboard when it took three month for the developer to respond to a request that I submitted. It seems that they stopped taking it seriously a long time ago.

__d · Answer

There's also https://larder.io/

runjake · Answer

If you're not getting what you're paying for, stop paying -- and then request/demand a refund for the affected time-frame.
Pinboard is a one-man shop and maybe that one-man has some personal life issues of some sort to deal with. Adjust your expectations accordingly, going into the future.
If a service you want to use is a one-man shop, adjust your expectations accordingly.
(Please in no way take this as excuse-making for idlewords, but rather as a rule of thumb.)
PS: Who runs Raindrop.io? It looks like a one-man shop, but I cannot find who that person is.
Edit: Looks like this fellow runs Raindrop:
https://github.com/exentrich
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rustem-mussabekov-33172612/

warrenm · Answer

I never understood pinboard, or del.icio.us, or any of the other "social bookmark" tools out thereCan someone explain better than wikipedia the draw to them?

tconfrey · Answer

Kind of a different take, check out https://braintool.org . Chromium only RN and no archiving, but you own your own data in plain text (org-mode format). Freemium, source-available and private. Its optimized for fast filing and retrieval with search and keyboard controls.

Irongirl1 · Answer

I am a Raindrop user and while I have no major complaints, I'm not really wowed either. I'm thinking of switching to this : braintool.org. Being able to achieve simply, self-hosting (I have 12k bookmarks) and the tagging and note attachment really stands out to me.

aworks · Answer

Former del.icio.us and pinboard user here. I've been using raindrop.io for three months. I like it so far although I no longer use tagging.

gaws · Answer

Pinboard is dead. Move on to something else.