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ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
I'm a long time (yearly plan) user with a similar experience.
The crux of the issue is that Pinboard's centralized architecture is unsustainable in the long run. It's essentially an on-demand archive.org service with the same ever-increasing storage requirements, which becomes a bigger problem as more users join.
It must be difficult for a one (or two) person team to manage, especially since they also chose to manage their own hardware. I assume this is to avoid cloud storage and hosting costs, and I respect the decision, but this can add a lot of overhead on top of just keeping the software performing optimally.
The sustainable model for this type of service is self-hosted. https://archivebox.io/ seems like a nice solution I've been meaning to try.
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I'm one of da ol tymaz. Sorry to say, but I'd prefer not to pay.
Pinboard works, but the issues that were there from the start are still there. It's pretty much a time capsule (that works OK). Somehow (I'm being frank now) I don't trust this will change because a few OGs taxameters will start ticking.
I remember signing up partly because the business model was different thinking, "that would work, new people are born and that would generate more users". If that ain't the case — I'm not sentimental — and Pinboard goes to the grave, I'll probably self host https://www.linkace.org/
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My general use of Pinboard goes like this:
Several times a day: Bookmark a thing (usually marked as 'unread').
Every week or so: Look back at my unread bookmarks. Read, or just mark read because I want to keep a bookmark but I don't want to actually read.
A few times a month: Use Pinboard to look something up that I remember seeing, or I don't - but hope I did actually come across already. Full text search helps here.
I wonder if Maciej would consider getting some browser extensions and mobile apps developed? I've probably paid the same for apps over the years as I have for Pinboard itself [], and they've generally been terrible.
I'm certainly willing to pay more than I already am for Pinboard if it comes with some decent tools. Something like Promnesia [1] and note taking being integrated would make it the tool I use the most all day, so this would be well worth it.
[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html
[] I'm a paying Pinboard user since 2011 and have been paying for full-text indexing since it became available.
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Now that my HPI (https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI) thing has Pinboard support, I guess makes sense to add a proper module to Promnesia... I'll get to it one day unless someone else wants to give it a go
