Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter…

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Pinboard

I don’t think Pinboard’s added a feature in ten years. It certainly hasn’t added a feature useful to me in that space of time. 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. Its documentation is similarly stale, and so are its ancillary tools—don’t use the Pinboard-developed bookmarklet for bookmarking because it often breaks and Cegłowski refuses to fix it (blaming browsers and websites instead); get one of the third-party browser plugins.

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Raindrop.io

Raindrop’s URLs, by contrast, are an absolute dumpster fire. Collections (which are the only “shareable” aggregation in Raindrop) are identified by a lengthy meaningless number-string, not collection name; I haven’t memorized my collections’ numbers and likely won’t. Worse, I can’t copy-and-paste URLs from the address bar because they’re different for the logged-in account owner and anyone else! There’s a whole “share” rigmarole I have to go through to make a collection public, and the eventual URL for it looks like https://raindrop.io/dsalo/share-21103580 which is just gross. The cherry on top is that hashtags have the hash character… URL-encoded, which is just massively irritating to someone used to Pinboard’s URL elegance. The long and short of it is, Raindrop links are immensely too difficult to repurpose and reuse.

#Bookmarks #Bookmark Manager #Bookmark Synchronization 178 social mentions