For now, I have a bookmarks folder for stuff like this.
1. add the ability to "favorite" from the front page. I rarely "favorite" anything, because I grew accustomed to using "upvote" as the mechanism to save stories. I would switch, but that extra little bit of friction of needing to click through first, means I stick with my old habit.
2. Add "favorite" for comments as well.
3. (maybe) - consider renaming "favorite" to "save"? Possibly people who are used to seeing the "save" link on Reddit would find that more intuitive.
dang: if you get rid of it please don't do so w/o notice so that those of us who do use it can export the links first.
Heh, there ya go. I'm one of the people who uses the favorite feature (albeit sporadically) and I didn't even know you could do that.
Yeah, surfacing the UI element for "favorite" to make it easier to find would, IMO, make it a lot more usable.
I noticed over the years that my use of Pinboard is very asymmetrical: I save several URLs every month, but retrieve at most a handful per year. But knowing that my memories are safely stored gives me peace of mind (and, just to be safe, I make a backup every year or so).
It's better to have a URL and not need, than to need a URL and not have it :)
I wish HN had an easy way to save comments like Reddit, but this reply should do the trick :)