[pratyushmittal]

I (still) use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pratyush

  Reasons:
  1. Archives - those tutorials and guides stay when the original pages go 404
  2. API - I use the api to automatically post my bookmarks to my blog
  3. Full-text search: this is very very useful when needed
  4. Social Discovery: Search that niche website / app on Pinboard. It shows lots of other people who found that same thing as interesting. We can then follow them and subscribe to their favourites as RSS feed.

[blakewatson]

I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the philosophy of Pinboard and I also like Maciej. That said I recently decided to roll my own bookmarks tool with Wayback Machine archival capability.

https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks

[eitland]

Archival hasn't been working for months for me and nobody answers the mails (I've tried three times over the last year or so) so as much as I like pinboard.in at the moment I am looking for something else

[klenwell]

I use the API to send myself a daily email with a combination of random and anniversary bookmarks:

https://github.com/klenwell/pinprick

I find it a good way to keep in touch with past bookmarks and do some light maintenance.

[AareyBaba]

Maciej has a 'random' bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar. See https://pinboard.in/howto/

[tclancy]

Same. Having imported my delicious bookmarks dating back to 2005 or so, I have a fairly large set of links that I try to tag consistently. I don't actually read a ton of them, but being able to full-text search or filter by combining tags makes it really useful for digging up things I barely remember coming across.

[skinnymuch]

Archiving can’t do pages that need authentication. Which are frequently the most important for me. Either way the archiving does not work very well.

I have over 30K bookmarks and add multiple hundreds a month.

[some_furry]

I love Pinboard. It has all the features I'd expect from a bookmarking service, but nothing superfluous. There's no upsell. There's no advertisement or JavaScript bloat.

Part of the reason for Pinboard's success is the lack of VC pressure for growth. I'm happy to keep paying for Pinboard indefinitely.

[jng]

I use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I never paid for the full-text-archive feature of pinboard, it would have been a good idea but it's too late now). Sometimes it definitely helps me find some old highlights that still lurk in a shiny way in my mind.

[windexh8er]

Pinboard is phenomenal. I used to keep all my links in Simplenote but Pinboard is far superior for a number of the reasons listed here already. I may only search through it for something once a week but I find I tag things much more thoroughly in Pinboard than anything else I've used.

[jnovek]

I just became a Pinboard customer a few months ago!

I picked Pinboard because the UI is simple but functional. No 30mb blob of JavaScript. It pairs well with todo.txt… now I just need a simple Dropbox-based notes app to complete the trio.

[robterrell]

I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.

[ghaff]

The same. I started using it after Magnolia died. I used to do link blog posts via a script that used the API but stopped doing that at one point.

[gammarator]

14k bookmarks in Pinboard for me! Major use case is helping me close tabs, but I search for old stuff with some frequency.

[Semiapies]

It's a great service.