Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by tshaddox on Friday September 13, 2024 @06:29PM
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Same thing happened to me around that same time.
I've been pretty happy with raindrop.io ever since.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by ksec on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:10PM
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Many low hanging fruit. I guess many feels the same about support.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by bosquefrio on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:00PM
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If Maciej is burnt out then I wonder why he hasn't hired someone to do support for him?
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by mrzool on Saturday September 14, 2024 @04:49AM
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I don’t think he’s burned out. I think he’s just an asshole.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by burkaman on Saturday September 14, 2024 @10:32AM
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Yeah he's just making enough money that he doesn't care anymore. He is aware of how many people are confused about the lack of support and has commented about it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31186755.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by zargon on Saturday September 14, 2024 @03:41PM
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Yep. He has demonstrated it repeatedly in pinbiard threads here.
Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
by msephton on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:28PM
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At one time he asked all existing subscribers for donations to enable him to pay a Romanian programmer to maintain the site. People paid and then he used the money for something else other than employing somebody to maintain the site. Not cool. Ref: https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/161007608301301350...
I didn't get any response until late February 2023, when he sent me a link that produced a 404 error. I complained about that, and about a week later, I got an email from him that asked me whether I'd been able to download that archive he'd sent me the link for "in late January".
I told him, again, that the link he'd sent in February hadn't worked, and that I'd told him that, and in a couple of hours everything was wrapped up satisfactorily.
Had he been able to do that when I'd asked for it five months earlier, I would undoubtedly have a much higher opinion of the man.