If anyone is interested into self-hosting their bookmarks service so that they don't suffer this again. Here is a list of interesting open source projects that provides that
Happy user of Linkding here (wish it had a different name that wasn't one syllable away from LinkedIn).
Linkding: I self-host and the developer has been very receptive and open minded about feature requests.
Pinboard: I moved after Maciej asked existing subscribers for donations so he could hire somebody to keep it running and then... didn't. I'm not saying he used that money to do some travelling, but it certainly looked that way to me.
I asked him for my full archive download in October 2022, and having heard nothing back I wound up paying him another $39 to keep my archive from being deleted while I tried to get his attention.
I didn't get any response until late February 2023, when he sent me a link that produced a 404 error. I complained about that, and about a week later, I got an email from him that asked me whether I'd been able to download that archive he'd sent me the link for "in late January".
I told him, again, that the link he'd sent in February hadn't worked, and that I'd told him that, and in a couple of hours everything was wrapped up satisfactorily.
Had he been able to do that when I'd asked for it five months earlier, I would undoubtedly have a much higher opinion of the man.
Yup also happened to me in 2018. I never received a download link for my archive. My support email was never answered and my archive expired and was deleted.
At one time he asked all existing subscribers for donations to enable him to pay a Romanian programmer to maintain the site. People paid and then he used the money for something else other than employing somebody to maintain the site. Not cool. Ref: https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/161007608301301350...
I have requested my full archive download a couple of times over the last year and haven't been able to get it, which stinks. I keep trying to figure out a migration plan, but it seems daunting, especially with so many archived bookmarks. I love the service and want to keep using it, but the inability to get a backup archive makes me nervous.
Yep, stopped working for me years ago. Had to contact The Guy personally every single time, because my archive grew to 20GB. He’s not responsive for years tho :(
I got Anybox[0] with the lifetime subscription (40$) and have been happy with it (Only for Apple devices unfortunately)
I can choose to automatically download a web archive when I bookmark. Also has a trial version. Can be a bit overwhelming to set things up. But works seamlessly once done.
Homebuilt tool. Started when the Pocket BS in FF happened, just kept playing with it. It's a PWA/Share Target on mobile and an extension in my browser.
I was a previous Pinboard customer. I've since moved to Linkding[0], a self-hosted solution, and highly recommend it. It's got the same feature parity as Pinboard but gives me much more confidence about the longevity of my bookmarks.
Internally, perhaps, but it doesn't have external feature parity when it comes to, e.g., being able to automagically import things using IFTTT.
(Yes, I could probably lash up a webhook feeding into linkding but IFTTT's webhook support still isn't great but I'm already 20 projects behind on my personal list and redoing all my IFTTT recipes that talk to Pinboard isn't going to be a priority.)
Linkding is definitely worth a look though as backup.
It really depends on your needs. I use Pinboard on many different browsers and devices and I'm not really interested in running my own service. I'll happily pay for the full text archiving but I acknowledge it is not perfect. I have come to the conclusion if you want to retain full text copies of your bookmarks, you need to download the pages yourself. I have been using SingleFile extension but there is also a CLI available.
What have you been using for search? The CLI app? What is your download workflow like? Is there an automated way to download a bunch of links, say pulled in from an API?
I don't have nearly as sophisticated setup as [Gwern](https://gwern.net/archiving), but they provide an overview of how you might go about it. Right now I manually use the extension on as as needed basis, but I would like to get it to the point where I can point a script at a list of urls and both run SingleFile and also upload to the Wayback Machine
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- Linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
- Linkwarden https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
- Servas https://github.com/beromir/Servas
- Grimoire https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire
- Hoarder https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder
- LinkAce https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce/
- Readeck https://readeck.org/en/
- Shaarli https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli
- Shirori https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
Linkding: I self-host and the developer has been very receptive and open minded about feature requests.
Pinboard: I moved after Maciej asked existing subscribers for donations so he could hire somebody to keep it running and then... didn't. I'm not saying he used that money to do some travelling, but it certainly looked that way to me.
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I didn't get any response until late February 2023, when he sent me a link that produced a 404 error. I complained about that, and about a week later, I got an email from him that asked me whether I'd been able to download that archive he'd sent me the link for "in late January".
I told him, again, that the link he'd sent in February hadn't worked, and that I'd told him that, and in a couple of hours everything was wrapped up satisfactorily.
Had he been able to do that when I'd asked for it five months earlier, I would undoubtedly have a much higher opinion of the man.
I've been pretty happy with raindrop.io ever since.
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[1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
I can choose to automatically download a web archive when I bookmark. Also has a trial version. Can be a bit overwhelming to set things up. But works seamlessly once done.
[0] https://anybox.app/
Downside is I have to be online to use it.
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0. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
Internally, perhaps, but it doesn't have external feature parity when it comes to, e.g., being able to automagically import things using IFTTT.
(Yes, I could probably lash up a webhook feeding into linkding but IFTTT's webhook support still isn't great but I'm already 20 projects behind on my personal list and redoing all my IFTTT recipes that talk to Pinboard isn't going to be a priority.)
Linkding is definitely worth a look though as backup.