Well, it's useful *now*! I still get a lot of good fic from there. But the set of users (or, at least, users who are factored in as "fandom" journals - and I don't actually know how an account gets onto the fandom list) is small, so basically a fic only needs half-a-dozen or so bookmarks to be 'popular', which means a group of friends all rec'cing it to each other gets it on the page, and most of the prolific pinboard people seem to read each other's recs, which makes it less useful as a zeitgeist - some weird (but good) niche stuff shows up there.

The pay issue is part of it. And I think unfortunately it's still missing some of the functionality that made de.icio.us so perfect - for me, particularly being able to see popular links for any tag, but also some other stuff. But also del.icio.us was useful because there were so many people, from all different place, on it, and there was so much history there, too - unfortunately that set of people has become fragmented and we've lost most of the history, so I don't know if anything will ever hit the threshhold to being as useful as before.

And it's interesting that Teen Wolf was that high up! I've hardly ever seen it anywhere other than on pinboard, hmm. Maybe I should try reading some! (I had it confused with Big Wolf on Campus for a long time.)