Pinboard is one of those pieces of software that has "just worked" since I first signed on. It's been a surprisingly useful part of my daily life, and the lack of bullshit when using it has been awesome. Also: Maciej is an incredible writer. If you haven't read his blog (http://idlewords.com/) or his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/baconmeteor) you really should.
"I propose to visit Antarctica in February, 2016 and write a series of at least seven blog posts about what I see and learn. In a break with past practice, I will publish the entire series within four months of completing the trip.
The trip I have in mind is a 36-day organized sea cruise on a Russian icebreaker to the Ross Ice Shelf and Bay of Whales, with stops along the way at Australian and American bases (including McMurdo sound) and numerous subantarctic islands."
Another user of pinboard here (not a heavy user though). Are there any other examples of services that are simple and just work? Seems like this is the holy grail of SaaS - a simple service, barebones design, something that just works out of the box, happy customers. Great service.
Regarding backups... I'm paid user and I don't have any idea how I'd back up the content of the mirrored pages. I understand that the bookmarks alone can be exported.
On another side, I always hoped that I won't have to backup anything from pinboard.in.
I love Pinboard, it's been the right thing the whole time, with no uncomfortable changes or redesigns.
The few extra features I want, I've added myself with userscripts and userstyles, and my own massively customized bookmarklet. The only thing I could want in this regard is some slightly more flexible HTML on Pinboard's pages itself, as it is it can be a bit tough to target certain elements with CSS selectors.
More than anything else, I'm glad something on the scale of Pinboard can exist. Just a man providing a service he built lovingly, to a base of happy customers.
I went to sign up and was very confused by the recurring fee. I fully expected to pay like $25 bucks once by now. I wonder how the one time fee would have looked currently?
»I changed the business model of the site in January from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it.«
