I started using Delicious, and then Yahoo completely changed the service. Utterly. It broke a bunch of features.
Switched to Pinboard and never looked back. And it's stayed just as rock-solid as it was on day one.
Also, if you're using Delicious to archive some personal bookmarks, I trust those to be on Maciej's servers more than Yahoo servers. I don't know what kind of privacy settings Delicious has, but even if it's as painless as Pinboard's, I wouldn't really trust it.
In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.
> In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.
"If you are uncomfortable with this research and wish to opt out, please email me with your username, and I'll keep your bookmarks out of the pool. If you have questions, ask me on Twitter or email me privately, and I'll be happy to answer them."
While there's only so much privacy you can technically expect from an operator of a web data storage service, I think being upset about an opt-out study - announced only via blog and twitter - that would benefit the operator personally and users almost not at all isn't really unreasonable.
Edit after downvote: I use Pinboard and like it, think Maciej is a fantastic guy, and don't personally have problems with this study, but come on guys. He'll be alright with some dissent.
Why does it matter that much though? It was other issues that made Delicious fail, including that Yahoo sucked at acquisitions back then (they have since improved).
Depends what you're bookmarking. Some people value their privacy. A bookmarking service probably knows almost as much about your political affiliations, your sexual orientation, etc as Facebook or Google does, after you use it for a couple years. I trust Maciej not to exploit that information.
So it's not really about whether another bookmarking service can deliver or not, for me. It's whether they're faithful steward.
I've been using Pinboard since 2011. I switched from Delicious after Yahoo started screwing it up.
The things I like about Pinboard:
The UI is simple, intuitive, and works on my computers, my iPad, my phone, etc.
It doesn't do a million other things and lose focus on bookmarking.
It doesn't integrate with Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest.
It doesn't rollout new changes every other week.
I'm not worried about the site getting sold to a different company and being ruined.
I'm not worried about the current owner deciding he needs to change things up and ruining it.
It's always online. In the past, even when getting pounded by new sign ups (i.e. after Delicious has a new release) the site's stayed online. I think the worst I've seen is he throttled or disabled the importing tasks for a little bit.
It charged me up front instead of making money off of me on the backend by selling my data to advertisers.
> It doesn't integrate with Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and the rest.
You can link a Twitter account, for one advantage of using the Twitter favorite mechanism to automatically bookmark (optionally archive) in Pinboard from any Twitter client.
Switched to Pinboard and never looked back. And it's stayed just as rock-solid as it was on day one.
Also, if you're using Delicious to archive some personal bookmarks, I trust those to be on Maciej's servers more than Yahoo servers. I don't know what kind of privacy settings Delicious has, but even if it's as painless as Pinboard's, I wouldn't really trust it.
In particular, all of your bookmarks will certainly be analyzed on Yahoo servers. Whereas I trust Maciej not to perform experiments on random people's bookmarks.