I guess since the majority here is positive I shall offer my dissenting opinion.
I signed up for the site in the early days prior to browser sync being a common feature, but I just never found it fit my use model. It turns out the bookmarks I use tend to be either quick access shortcut which browser features like the bookmark toolbar or speed dial is a much better fit for, or short term reference which I end up just keeping in tabs.
I know HN here is generally very positive about subscriptions and mentions it's just a cost of coffee, but eventually they add up and the last couple of years the amount of cups of coffee and the overhead of thinking about which are actually providing their value has soured me on it and left me longing for days when more items were just purchased outright. I've mentioned in other posts moving back to music download purchases after subscription service library changes became problematic as an example.
Bookmark sync is just not worth a recurring payment to me. I use Firefox Sync these days, but if that went away I'd just run an instance before I'd pay for it. It sounds like from other comments here that Pinboard has not been much more reliable of late so it's not even like by letting someone else deal with running it that you get a more reliable service.
There is https://tinygem.org which is free and a bit different twist to bookmarking/content discovery. Would love to hear what you think! (disclaimer: me/author)
I signed up for the site in the early days prior to browser sync being a common feature, but I just never found it fit my use model. It turns out the bookmarks I use tend to be either quick access shortcut which browser features like the bookmark toolbar or speed dial is a much better fit for, or short term reference which I end up just keeping in tabs.
I know HN here is generally very positive about subscriptions and mentions it's just a cost of coffee, but eventually they add up and the last couple of years the amount of cups of coffee and the overhead of thinking about which are actually providing their value has soured me on it and left me longing for days when more items were just purchased outright. I've mentioned in other posts moving back to music download purchases after subscription service library changes became problematic as an example.
Bookmark sync is just not worth a recurring payment to me. I use Firefox Sync these days, but if that went away I'd just run an instance before I'd pay for it. It sounds like from other comments here that Pinboard has not been much more reliable of late so it's not even like by letting someone else deal with running it that you get a more reliable service.