{"id":45030,"date":"2024-09-20T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45030"},"modified":"2024-09-20T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:38:22","slug":"the-end-of-pinboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/20\/the-end-of-pinboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Pinboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gordon<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Over the past few years there have been a slowly increasing number of pinboard outages with less communication. While debugging the last outage I purged my local history from the 3rd party Pins iOS app and found that Pinboard was throttling their download API. I could download only 100 of my 50,000 or so pins. (It’s still easy to download the whole set as a file).<\/p>

That’s ominous, but more importantly Pinboard is a one person show and that person is no longer responding to support emails. Maciej is no longer active on social media that I know of. His Pinboard.in support forum has been quiescent for years. I’ll be researching my micro blog options and I’ll write about what I come up with on tech.kateva.org.<\/p>

10 years is an eternity on the web. Pinboard had a good run, but it too is passing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I, too, have see the site become slower and less reliable. Unlike some others<\/a>, I haven’t had trouble downloading my archive.<\/p>\n\n

ghoomketu<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wow, the irony is Pinboard, the very service that championed the idea of “Don’t be a free user<\/a>” is now shutting down (edit: sorry, ok not shutting down officially but apparently it’s in a free fall for quite some time and nobody gives a damn<\/a>). Their article argued that free services often turn into pump-and-dump schemes, while paid services promise sustainability and better support. Yet here we are, witnessing the demise of a paid service that couldn’t sustain itself.<\/p>

It’s a stark reminder that even paid models aren’t immune to market forces and operational challenges.<\/p>

Maybe the real takeaway is that no business model is foolproof, and unless you can self host something you can never know when and how it will end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n