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Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service by Derbasti on Saturday September 14, 2024 @01:29AM (#41537679)
I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm.

I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs.

Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.

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Re:The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service by 0xBDB on Monday September 16, 2024 @08:58AM (#41555610)
I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.
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