Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (August '22 edition)?

15 points by tsg ↗ HN
April edition here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183419

Is anything new for anyone? My archiving accounts still don't work, I've tried emailing a few times asking for a refund (after many emails asking for a fix), but haven't heard anything back.

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This situation seems pretty frustrating for many. My guess, from his most recent public communications, is that idlewords is taking a mental health break.

Step number 1 would be to stop payments to Pinboard if you are not satisfied.

Then pursue a refund and wait $x until he responds. There's not much you can do beside that. People raging on the Internet doesn't seem to be grabbing his attention enough to offer a tangible statement, effort, or refund.

He can build a clone