People should use whatever site they find most useful. But I find the specific criticisms here baffling. To wit:
* "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enough to remember Pinboard origins know that I cloned it off of del.icio.us after Yahoo made that site useless through repeated redesigns. The value proposition of Pinboard is that it endures, just like the stuff you archive there.
* The "add URL form is not responsive". I fixed this in early January, along with a raft of other updates targeted at phone users, as the author himself acknowledges. I've been working to get things looking neater on phones for a while now; bug reports about this are especially welcome.
* They don't like me and my politics are bad, for reasons they can't remember or articulate.
Again, you can dislike me and my website for any reason you want, but if you're going to publicly attack my livelihood, do it with more substance.
Agreed. The post is less critique than a weird traipse through the author's head. I can't tell why the post ended up on HN; the post doesn't even contain information on how the author built their new solution.
* "The site has barely changed in years/decades". That's kind of the point of the site! People ancient enough to remember Pinboard origins know that I cloned it off of del.icio.us after Yahoo made that site useless through repeated redesigns. The value proposition of Pinboard is that it endures, just like the stuff you archive there.
* The "add URL form is not responsive". I fixed this in early January, along with a raft of other updates targeted at phone users, as the author himself acknowledges. I've been working to get things looking neater on phones for a while now; bug reports about this are especially welcome.
* They don't like me and my politics are bad, for reasons they can't remember or articulate.
Again, you can dislike me and my website for any reason you want, but if you're going to publicly attack my livelihood, do it with more substance.