I switched from Pinboard to Raindrop after not getting a response to pinboard support emails. I hope Pinboard’s creator is okay.

Same for me. Got an answer to my support requests months later. I left long time ago (to Raindrop).

Probably busy tweeting

His last tweet is from December, declaring he’d spend a year off Twitter. He’s made it halfway so far!

he needed a year off twitter. he was fun to follow for a while, but it was sad to watch the tweets turn so angry and defensive.

Likewise. I switched to Raindrop.io.

Well, the archiving hasn’t been working.

Paying customer ~4 years here (prior use for years). Happy with it. Use it for extensive private bookmarking.

Is it failing for you? Would you switch to some other alternative?

Exactly, I hate the idea that software has to be constantly updated. That's how we end up with so many bloated messes that started out simple (cough dropbox cough). Pinboard is simple, and for my needs at least, perfect. If he kept it in maintenance mode forever, I'd be fine with that.

Ah yes, this is why Hackernews is now abandonware. /s

HN has a full time maintainer @dang. And HN hasn’t started failing at its basic tasks like posting or commenting.

The comment you're replying to was sarcasm (note the /s).

I am not a techbro (not from a tech field) and I don’t want new features, only that the ones it has not stop working. Especially when I am paying for it.