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Pinboard needs help!
Mar. 4th, 2021 06:46 pmHi friends -
Dropping back in after a long absence to post a note about bookmarking site Pinboard, which needs your help! I'm posting to amplify this request from owner Maciej Cegłowski, in case some of you (like me) set up your Pinboard account with an old email that you may not check frequently.
Some background:
Many of us migrated over to Pinboard for fanwork bookmarking after Del.icio.us imploded (post Yahoo! sale). I was extremely grateful for the way that Maciej consulted with fandom to build the site so that it would serve us well. (Here's an awesome talk he gave in 2013 about the process.) He basically earned goodwill for life from fandom.
I was an early adopter, and paid something like $9USD in 2009 for a lifetime subscription. (Maciej offered this tier for a few years, then switched to new users needing to pay an annual subscription fee.) Apparently 2/3 of the Pinboard fanbase are also early adopters who paid a single lifetime price. This means that the site is making very little money.
Pinboard generates juuuust enough revenue to be sustainable ... in a stasis sort of condition. However, as with any webware, some growth is necessary (code updates!), and some would just be nice because why not improve as users needs change?
The Ask
Maciej is asking Pinboard old-timers to voluntarily convert to an annual subscription. You can do that here: https://pinboard.in/convert. There are many choices - I went with a 10 year fee, both to save money (since I'll definitely continue to use it) and also so that I could offer him a cash infusion right away since he has things he'd like to do, including hiring a developer.
Please consider doing this! Pinboard has been a quiet staple of my fan life, and I use it daily. I know many of you do the same (because I follow you there heeeeeyyy). Help it stay viable!
( Read Maciej's letter in full )
Dropping back in after a long absence to post a note about bookmarking site Pinboard, which needs your help! I'm posting to amplify this request from owner Maciej Cegłowski, in case some of you (like me) set up your Pinboard account with an old email that you may not check frequently.
Some background:
Many of us migrated over to Pinboard for fanwork bookmarking after Del.icio.us imploded (post Yahoo! sale). I was extremely grateful for the way that Maciej consulted with fandom to build the site so that it would serve us well. (Here's an awesome talk he gave in 2013 about the process.) He basically earned goodwill for life from fandom.
I was an early adopter, and paid something like $9USD in 2009 for a lifetime subscription. (Maciej offered this tier for a few years, then switched to new users needing to pay an annual subscription fee.) Apparently 2/3 of the Pinboard fanbase are also early adopters who paid a single lifetime price. This means that the site is making very little money.
Pinboard generates juuuust enough revenue to be sustainable ... in a stasis sort of condition. However, as with any webware, some growth is necessary (code updates!), and some would just be nice because why not improve as users needs change?
The Ask
Maciej is asking Pinboard old-timers to voluntarily convert to an annual subscription. You can do that here: https://pinboard.in/convert. There are many choices - I went with a 10 year fee, both to save money (since I'll definitely continue to use it) and also so that I could offer him a cash infusion right away since he has things he'd like to do, including hiring a developer.
Please consider doing this! Pinboard has been a quiet staple of my fan life, and I use it daily. I know many of you do the same (because I follow you there heeeeeyyy). Help it stay viable!
( Read Maciej's letter in full )
