<story><title>Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?</title><text>Over the last year or so, pinboard.in&amp;#x27;s paid archiving service has become increasingly sporadic. The process used to be nearly instant, but bookmarks are crawled maybe once a month now and frequently fail to archive correctly or are skipped completely.&lt;p&gt;From Pinboard&amp;#x27;s Twitter mentions, I can see I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.&lt;p&gt;Overall, it&amp;#x27;s left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I&amp;#x27;d also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.&lt;p&gt;I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it&amp;#x27;s still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heinrichf</author><text>From the FAQ of pinboard.in (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pinboard.in&amp;#x2F;faq&amp;#x2F;#anxieties&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pinboard.in&amp;#x2F;faq&amp;#x2F;#anxieties&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; What happens if the guy who runs Pinboard gets hit by a bus?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The bus is likely to be fine. They don&amp;#x27;t go very fast and are designed with passenger safety in mind.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard?</title><text>Over the last year or so, pinboard.in&amp;#x27;s paid archiving service has become increasingly sporadic. The process used to be nearly instant, but bookmarks are crawled maybe once a month now and frequently fail to archive correctly or are skipped completely.&lt;p&gt;From Pinboard&amp;#x27;s Twitter mentions, I can see I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.&lt;p&gt;Overall, it&amp;#x27;s left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I&amp;#x27;d also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.&lt;p&gt;I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it&amp;#x27;s still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cogs</author><text>I cancelled my subscription last year after similar problems with full text search.&lt;p&gt;I did get a download of my data, albeit it took a while, after requesting it from my settings page.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had a reply to any of my emails to him. Alhough I did eventually get a reply on twitter, which said &amp;quot;Sorry for the terrible support&amp;quot;  But then I heard nothing more, and got no replies to further emails either.&lt;p&gt;I think he&amp;#x27;s too busy being a celebrity.  And it&amp;#x27;s a shame because he was kind of a figure head for independents doing a good job, and I was a bit of an evangelist.  Oh well.</text></comment>