A year or so ago I got some Twitter DMs from someone (not Cegłowski) indicating that a refactoring and new features were on the way, but I have heard nothing since and don’t particularly expect to. It certainly hasn’t added a feature useful to me in that space of time. I don’t think Pinboard’s added a feature in ten years. The tl dr version is that Pinboard is falling apart but its underlying elegance saves it for now, while Raindrop is superficially prettier but the actual experience of using it is full of frustrating warts and friction. What I’ve done in response is move active bookmarking back to Pinboard, but set up an IFTTT recipe to crosspost all public bookmarks to Raindrop, so my students and I don’t get T-boned by a Pinboard outage again.īecause I not-infrequently get questions about bookmarking tools, following is a wildly opinionated comparison of present-day Pinboard and Raindrop, looking at featureset and user experience. I found Raindrop, did a blessedly quick export/import (good job, both platforms!), and my students were (somewhat haltingly hold that thought) back in business.Īfter several months of Raindropping, my conclusion is that both tools are presently awful, but for different reasons. Rather than try to remonstrate on Twitter-the Pinboard account there is about Cegłowski and his politics, not actually Pinboard-I went hunting a non-broken alternative. I’m usually willing to give apps the benefit of the doubt, but not when it harms my students and I can’t fix it for them. When I went to troubleshoot, I saw no announcement explaining the issue, much less any suggested workarounds.
I knew nothing about this until my poor intro students told me they couldn’t reach a tag page (specifically this one) necessary for one of their major assignments. From the next-to-nothing that was actually communicated to Pinboard users, it appears a DDoS attack caused owner/developer Maciej Cegłowski to cut off access to publicly-available tag pages except to logged-in users. Last fall, my mainstay Pinboard did me dirty and I was furious. I collect them assiduously, post them to social media (formerly Twitter, now Mastodon) as they pass my gaze, use them in syllabus construction and professional writing, rely on them when people ask me reference-like questions. As many TattleTape readers already know, I live and die by bookmarks.
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