I understand your frustration, but a funny thing here is I get these comments the most when I'm actively working on the site. Doing this stuff solo means not being able to work on every level at once. I just spent a month out in California during the fires setting up a boatload of hardware to add capacity to the site, in part so that even very large archives have a truly remote backup, but that's not a benefit people see in their day-to-day use of the site.
At this point the only accounts that can't get an archive download link are the truly big ones, on the order of 100GB. Raising that threshold (which I believe affects you) was another reason to schlepp out to California.
So I get why it's frustrating to not have pet features like substring search built for you, or unanswered emails, but find it equally frustrating from my side sometimes. It's an old, complex site, and I'm an old, complex guy running it.
Thanks for the response! I was hoping that putting this somewhere public would be the way I find out you're still working on it :)
> but find it equally frustrating from my side sometimes
Yes, I've tried in my requests not to come off as mean or indignant, I understand you're a single person supporting what's now a rather large project. You probably don't get this enough: thank you for building pinboard and maintaining it. For many years it was a shining beacon of excellence that you didn't get enough credit for.
If you say you're working on raising the limit (the site claims mine is ~90GB, I guess it's just on the threshold) then I believe you and I'm happy to stick around a while longer. My complaint comes from not knowing what you're up to. Until this comment I hadn't seen any signs of life for quite some time. I know you've chosen to keep this a one-man thing, which limits the number of emails you can respond to, but even a twitter account with updates about the service would be appreciated.
> I get why it's frustrating to not have pet features like substring search built for you
I think I chose the wrong phrasing for this, I'm not asking for a new feature. Say that there's a bookmark with the title "COVID Recovery", a search for "COVID" might not return that bookmark. I haven't found a pattern to it, search usually works, but if I can't rely on search that sharply reduces the value in having a lot of bookmarks.
At this point the only accounts that can't get an archive download link are the truly big ones, on the order of 100GB. Raising that threshold (which I believe affects you) was another reason to schlepp out to California.
So I get why it's frustrating to not have pet features like substring search built for you, or unanswered emails, but find it equally frustrating from my side sometimes. It's an old, complex site, and I'm an old, complex guy running it.