Since AVOS took over Delicious from Yahoo earlier this year things did not get better… The browser integration stopped working (I consider signing in every time I want to bookmark something as “not working”!) and the site has serious performance problems… I do not want to wait 3-5 seconds for storing a simple bookmark.
Thus it was finally time to look for alternatives, and I found it in the form of “pinboard.in“, a social bookmarking service without all the social crap:
Pinboard is a bookmarking website for introverted people in a hurry.
The focus of the site is less on socializing, and more on speed and utility.
And that describes it very well – it is fast, defaults to private bookmarks, has browser extensions available that work and it has the same API as Delicious – so rewriting scripts is a matter of changing the host name.
The drawback? They charge the *incredible* amount about $10 once, to board the service </sarcasm>.
So, if you want a fast, flawless and working bookmarking service check out Pinboard.in, but be prepared to support the developer with your credit card. You won’t regret it.
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