Exact same problem here. Archive backup doesn't work, mails are not answered. And it's not the first time.
When he was having fun dabbling in US politics, Pinboard was regularly misbehaving.
Archiving didn't work for weeks and months, after repeated mails, archiving worked again, failed again three weeks later. I went through that cycle several times.
There doesn't seem to be any monitoring or canaries in place, it's always "my account misbehaves, he does something, and the problem is manually solved". For me, not everyone else, presumably.
For god's sake, set up two or three dummy accounts and have them re-bookmark the same site again and again, see if it works. Have them export their archives every week, see if it works.
It became much more reliable when election season was over, but now it looks like he's lost interest in Pinboard again.
My subscription renewal is coming up and I'm thinking hard about leaving Pinboard. I like the interface, I like the features, I hate that it breaks all the time and the operator doesn't care.
You should check out Clayton Christensen's work on disruptive innovation. It's what pushed pinboard to success, and it's what will eventually be its downfall.
When he was having fun dabbling in US politics, Pinboard was regularly misbehaving.
Archiving didn't work for weeks and months, after repeated mails, archiving worked again, failed again three weeks later. I went through that cycle several times.
There doesn't seem to be any monitoring or canaries in place, it's always "my account misbehaves, he does something, and the problem is manually solved". For me, not everyone else, presumably.
For god's sake, set up two or three dummy accounts and have them re-bookmark the same site again and again, see if it works. Have them export their archives every week, see if it works.
It became much more reliable when election season was over, but now it looks like he's lost interest in Pinboard again.
My subscription renewal is coming up and I'm thinking hard about leaving Pinboard. I like the interface, I like the features, I hate that it breaks all the time and the operator doesn't care.