I started using Delicious, and then Yahoo completely changed the service. Utterly. It broke a bunch of features.
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.
> 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.
I've been using Pinboard since 2011. I switched from Delicious after Yahoo started screwing it up.
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.
> It doesn't integrate with Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest.
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.
sillysaurus3|11 years ago
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.
aratob|11 years ago
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/
yuhong|11 years ago
jlarocco|11 years ago
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.
bsg75|11 years ago
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.