Re:Pinboard Turns Eleven
by c1c2c3 on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:39AM
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I like pinboard but when I had problems with my archival account a couple of years ago I didn't receive any response to emails even though I chased for months. No longer subscribe but would love to find a similar alternative. Maybe poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.
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I run www.historio.us and I reply to emails :P
He does! And unless I'm wrong, historio.us has been around as long as Pinboard but never gets half the HN love.
Most of that is on me, I haven't given it the love it deserves, but I'm currently rewriting it and will be modernizing it, making it responsive, and adding new features.
Enjoy, and congratulations on running a long-lived solvent business that actually answers its email.
Thank you, and likewise, congratulations for running a long-lived successful business!
replying to a goading competitor rather than an honest now-former customer with a legitimate complaint strikes me as a real classy business move.
just my opinion.
(i'm a customer, I love pinboard, and this affects nothing as far as i'm concerned.. I haven't ever needed customer service -- it just strikes me as rude.)
> poor customer service is the reason for the number of active customers dropping off.
I've had a similar experience. Last year the site just wasn't working when I needed it, so I did not renew and moved to Larder.