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Snowflake #7, fandom resource
Snowflake#7 is a Fandom Resource, which I got super stuck on, because the only thing I could think of requires a lot of explaining.
So let me tell you a story about a website called del.icio.us that existed in the long long ago. If you had a free account on del.icio.us, you could put a button on your web browser, and anytime you saw a website - and specifically a fanfic - that you wanted to be able to find again, you could bookmark it to del.icio.us, and you could tag your bookmarks.
When del.icio.us started, you couldn't tag your livejournal. AO3 and Twitter and Tumblr and Pintrest didn't exist. Twitter, iirc, had these trendy new things called "hashtags", but you didn't really have any way to collate, organize, or find them, and every hashtag you used took away from the very limited number of characters allowed in your tweet.
del.icio.us was in a very real way the start of internet tagging. Fandom jumped on it. Fandom got really into tagging. Having a del.icio.us account was, in those days, just as basic as having a livejournal account, or having a fanfiction.net account that you bragged about hardly ever using. And, in the days when there was no centralized archive were you could post all your fic - where fic was scattered between livejournals where it was hard to find things; hundred of separate archives each of which had its own content rules which meant you couldn't post everything you wrote there; and personal websites - a del.icio.us account was necessary if you ever wanted to be able to find anything again.
But the best thing about del.icio.us was that it collated everybody's bookmarks together. If you clicked on the "sga" tag, you would see everybody's Stargate Atlantis bookmarks; if you clicked on the "slash" tag, you would see everybody's slash bookmarks. And the very best part was that it had an algorithm (this was back in the days before algorithms were evil.) Every tag had a "popular" page. If you went to http://del.icio.us/popular/slash (my fingers still have that algorithm memorized), it would show you the websites that had been bookmarked 'slash' the most times in the past several days. And you could do that for anything enough people tagged for! Sometimes the 'popular' fics weren't very good, sometimes they were amazing, sometimes you had no idea why they were there - but it gave you whatever it was that all of fandom was excited about or interested that day, every day. It was like a communal, consensus recs feed generated by the entirety of fandom. It was amazing, and there's been nothing like it since.
(AO3's tagging system is heavily influenced by del.icio.us - the combination of letting users free-enter tags but having wranglers to link related tags together is basically an attempt to recreate del.icio.us's tagging system, with all its scope for creativity and unexpected uses, but without its main weakness, which was that fic tagged Jack/Elizabeth and fic tagged Elizabeth/Jack weren't connected to each other at all.)
But the major problem with del.icio.us is that it was a tech startup that wasn't really monetized. So the owners sold it to Yahoo for a lot of money. Then Yahoo messed it up to the point that it really wasn't usable anymore for 90% of the people who had used it. Then it passed hands a few more times, and the last dried-out bits of the poor carcass were sold for peanuts to a man named Maciej Cegłowski.
Maciej had been running a one-man startup competitor to del.icio.us called pinboard.in which a lot of fandom people had moved to once del.icio.us was irretrievably broken. It wasn't as useful as del.icio.us had been back in its golden days. It didn't have as many organizational features, and maybe more important, it wasn't as socially oriented. You could still click on a tag and see everything that other people had used that tag on, but there were no tag-based "popular" pages anymore, and you couldn't do a lot of the more complex ways of searching everybody's bookmarks at once.
But for an individual person who just wanted to save their own bookmarks, it was great, and it actually has some features for that which are better than del.icio.us ever had (perhaps, most importantly, not being sold to yahoo and ruined.) After he bought del.icio.us, he also uploaded the del.icio.us data of everyone who gave permission, so it also has a lot of bookmarks from those old days of fandom, still up and discoverable via their ancient del.icio.us tags.
The main downside was that pinboard.in wasn't free. At first you could buy a permanent paid account for a fairly small amount, but it was pretty obvious that wouldn't be sustainable; for the past several years it's been a small yearly subscription if you wanted to bookmark things, free if you just wanted to look at other people's bookmarks. Recently he's had to lock down looking at bookmarks to accountholders only as well, because bots were driving up his hosting costs too far, and that was the simplest way to block them.
But you can't really blame it for those things, because it was a one-man company, and like Dreamwidth, it was aimed at being sustainable and providing a steady income for enough coding and support to keep the site running, not at making shareholders rich. It seems to have succeeded at that, although possibly a little too well, because Maciej had taken a few years off actually working on the site much in order to attempt to save Western democracy from the creeping tentacles of fascism, and as a result it's started to feel a bit abandoned.
Luckily for us, he's recently given up on that as a lost cause, so hopefully there will be some improvements to Pinboard this year, and also more timely support responses! (I hope the first improvement is having a free account tier so people can read-only browse the tags without an account; there are now a lot of bookmark sets on Pinboard - like old kinkmeme indices - that were made to be a free public resource and suddenly aren't free or public anymore.)
So what's left of Pinboard as a fandom resource if you didn't get in early enough to have a permanent paid account?
Well, it does have 'popular' pages, and they are still open for anybody to use, account or not!
It has exactly four popular pages:
https://pinboard.in/popular , which gives you what's popular across all of pinboard today
https://pinboard.in/popular/wikipedia , which gives you the most-bookmarked wikipedia pages lately (often very interesting)
https://pinboard.in/popular/japanese which I assume is the most popular Japanese bookmarks, although it's been very sparse for awhile
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https://pinboard.in/popular/fandom
pinboard.in/popular/fandom was created when fans first started moving to Pinboard from the mortally wounded del.icio.us . Maciej noticed the sudden influx, realized it was an organized subgroup, asked if there were features fans would like to see, received a collaboratively-built, meticulously organized and documented, tech-writing quality googledoc running to dozens of pages within 48 hours, realized we were scarily organized when motivated, and then - didn't get around implementing most of it. But he did implement a checkbox you can tick in your account settings that self-identifies you as a member of fandom, and if you do, your bookmarks are factored into the pinboard.in/popular/fandom page.
It's not as good as the old del.icio.us/popular/slash page. Partly because you can't narrow down by tags, especially if you don't have a paid account (there's supposed to be a list of popular tags from fandom users on the right side of that page, but… it got stuck sometime when Suits was still one of the biggest fandoms, and hasn't moved since. Fixing that is one of the things I really hope Maciej does now that he's paying attention again!)
Mostly though it's because fewer and fewer fans are still bookmarking on Pinboard. And most of the ones who do are people who are also in Pinboard's other primary demographic (techy people who like simple stripped-down solutions and are skeptical of startup culture, basically) so you get a lot of that kind of stuff slopped over into the fandom page.
That is fixable though, if more fans start using Pinboard! I know a lot of the dropoff is due to AO3 making offsite fic bookmarking a lot less necessary, and the ability to log in to browsers and sync across devices making bookmarking through a third party site less necessary too. Plus, the changes to the pay structure means possible bookmarkers are mostly people who've been around for years and years and years, and there are just less of them every year.
But having communal bookmarks is such a useful fandom tool! And bookmark search on AO3, while vastly improved from where it was a few years ago, is still not great. And having the ability to just go to one website every morning and see what Fandom, all of fandom, is talking about today, is just so good. So if you've got a permanent pinboard account sitting around, this is me asking you to think about maybe using it again someday!
(Also it occurs to me that AO3 bookmarks aren't locked, so if I fix my AO3 scraper, I could make it spit out an export of your AO3 bookmarks to import into Pinboard. Hm.)
And the other thing is - pinboard.in/popular/fandom not being all fanworks isn't entirely a downside, because most of the other links are also popular. I don't use Facebook and I don't have a Twitter account, but I often find that the viral tweets, and the links that are going around Facebook, and the good longreads that everybody is sharing, show up on Pinboard.in/popular/fandom before my friends who actually use the big social media sites find them on their feeds or trending. So to some extent, that site is my non-DW social media feed - it has enough viral nonsense and interesting longreads and internet news every day, mixed in with good fanfic! that I don't really miss out on those parts of having Facebook or Twitter. (Also the fact that I often read the more interesting/accessible/scandalous of the techy links means I seem to know more about IT security and general internet architecture than most of my work's IT people, which is just terrifying.) It's like having an algorithmic feed, but it's a generalized one that just has things that are widely popular, and also personal updates from people I actually know aren't mixed in with it. Also it only updates once a day, so I can finish it.
But the other thing about pinboard.in/popular/fandom , another thing that harks back to the good ol' days of fandom, is that you don't always know what you're going to get when you click on a link. You get either the title of the website or a title some Pinboard user gave their bookmark, and you get some tags that some pinboard user or other put on it, and generally that's it. If you click through you can see every pinboard bookmark for that link, with all the tags, and sometimes descriptions or summaries - but that depends on whether any Pinboard user has bothered to add on. It's especially bad for Twitter, for some reason - often all you get for a Twitter link before you click to look at it's a bare URL. If you're someone who really needs lots of warnings, that makes probably makes it unusable, but all the warnings and tags are there after you click through, and it sometimes tempts me to read good things I never would have if I'd seen a summary first.
The other thing is that since the page rebuilds itself every day, and there's no archive, so if something interesting goes off the page before you note it down, good luck finding it again! Although I think that's pretty normal on site with algorithmic feeds.
So it can be a little bit of a skill to figure out what's on that page and what's worth clicking on! So here's today's pinboard.in/popular/fandom: let's go down it and see what we see. (Sorry about the rich text but it made the copy/paste from Pinboard work better.)
Anyway, that's why I never really really do 'interesting links' spam or 'new fic I just read' recs, because 90% of the time it would just be off pinboard.in/popular/fandom anyway.
So let me tell you a story about a website called del.icio.us that existed in the long long ago. If you had a free account on del.icio.us, you could put a button on your web browser, and anytime you saw a website - and specifically a fanfic - that you wanted to be able to find again, you could bookmark it to del.icio.us, and you could tag your bookmarks.
When del.icio.us started, you couldn't tag your livejournal. AO3 and Twitter and Tumblr and Pintrest didn't exist. Twitter, iirc, had these trendy new things called "hashtags", but you didn't really have any way to collate, organize, or find them, and every hashtag you used took away from the very limited number of characters allowed in your tweet.
del.icio.us was in a very real way the start of internet tagging. Fandom jumped on it. Fandom got really into tagging. Having a del.icio.us account was, in those days, just as basic as having a livejournal account, or having a fanfiction.net account that you bragged about hardly ever using. And, in the days when there was no centralized archive were you could post all your fic - where fic was scattered between livejournals where it was hard to find things; hundred of separate archives each of which had its own content rules which meant you couldn't post everything you wrote there; and personal websites - a del.icio.us account was necessary if you ever wanted to be able to find anything again.
But the best thing about del.icio.us was that it collated everybody's bookmarks together. If you clicked on the "sga" tag, you would see everybody's Stargate Atlantis bookmarks; if you clicked on the "slash" tag, you would see everybody's slash bookmarks. And the very best part was that it had an algorithm (this was back in the days before algorithms were evil.) Every tag had a "popular" page. If you went to http://del.icio.us/popular/slash (my fingers still have that algorithm memorized), it would show you the websites that had been bookmarked 'slash' the most times in the past several days. And you could do that for anything enough people tagged for! Sometimes the 'popular' fics weren't very good, sometimes they were amazing, sometimes you had no idea why they were there - but it gave you whatever it was that all of fandom was excited about or interested that day, every day. It was like a communal, consensus recs feed generated by the entirety of fandom. It was amazing, and there's been nothing like it since.
(AO3's tagging system is heavily influenced by del.icio.us - the combination of letting users free-enter tags but having wranglers to link related tags together is basically an attempt to recreate del.icio.us's tagging system, with all its scope for creativity and unexpected uses, but without its main weakness, which was that fic tagged Jack/Elizabeth and fic tagged Elizabeth/Jack weren't connected to each other at all.)
But the major problem with del.icio.us is that it was a tech startup that wasn't really monetized. So the owners sold it to Yahoo for a lot of money. Then Yahoo messed it up to the point that it really wasn't usable anymore for 90% of the people who had used it. Then it passed hands a few more times, and the last dried-out bits of the poor carcass were sold for peanuts to a man named Maciej Cegłowski.
Maciej had been running a one-man startup competitor to del.icio.us called pinboard.in which a lot of fandom people had moved to once del.icio.us was irretrievably broken. It wasn't as useful as del.icio.us had been back in its golden days. It didn't have as many organizational features, and maybe more important, it wasn't as socially oriented. You could still click on a tag and see everything that other people had used that tag on, but there were no tag-based "popular" pages anymore, and you couldn't do a lot of the more complex ways of searching everybody's bookmarks at once.
But for an individual person who just wanted to save their own bookmarks, it was great, and it actually has some features for that which are better than del.icio.us ever had (perhaps, most importantly, not being sold to yahoo and ruined.) After he bought del.icio.us, he also uploaded the del.icio.us data of everyone who gave permission, so it also has a lot of bookmarks from those old days of fandom, still up and discoverable via their ancient del.icio.us tags.
The main downside was that pinboard.in wasn't free. At first you could buy a permanent paid account for a fairly small amount, but it was pretty obvious that wouldn't be sustainable; for the past several years it's been a small yearly subscription if you wanted to bookmark things, free if you just wanted to look at other people's bookmarks. Recently he's had to lock down looking at bookmarks to accountholders only as well, because bots were driving up his hosting costs too far, and that was the simplest way to block them.
But you can't really blame it for those things, because it was a one-man company, and like Dreamwidth, it was aimed at being sustainable and providing a steady income for enough coding and support to keep the site running, not at making shareholders rich. It seems to have succeeded at that, although possibly a little too well, because Maciej had taken a few years off actually working on the site much in order to attempt to save Western democracy from the creeping tentacles of fascism, and as a result it's started to feel a bit abandoned.
Luckily for us, he's recently given up on that as a lost cause, so hopefully there will be some improvements to Pinboard this year, and also more timely support responses! (I hope the first improvement is having a free account tier so people can read-only browse the tags without an account; there are now a lot of bookmark sets on Pinboard - like old kinkmeme indices - that were made to be a free public resource and suddenly aren't free or public anymore.)
So what's left of Pinboard as a fandom resource if you didn't get in early enough to have a permanent paid account?
Well, it does have 'popular' pages, and they are still open for anybody to use, account or not!
It has exactly four popular pages:
https://pinboard.in/popular , which gives you what's popular across all of pinboard today
https://pinboard.in/popular/wikipedia , which gives you the most-bookmarked wikipedia pages lately (often very interesting)
https://pinboard.in/popular/japanese which I assume is the most popular Japanese bookmarks, although it's been very sparse for awhile
- and -
https://pinboard.in/popular/fandom
pinboard.in/popular/fandom was created when fans first started moving to Pinboard from the mortally wounded del.icio.us . Maciej noticed the sudden influx, realized it was an organized subgroup, asked if there were features fans would like to see, received a collaboratively-built, meticulously organized and documented, tech-writing quality googledoc running to dozens of pages within 48 hours, realized we were scarily organized when motivated, and then - didn't get around implementing most of it. But he did implement a checkbox you can tick in your account settings that self-identifies you as a member of fandom, and if you do, your bookmarks are factored into the pinboard.in/popular/fandom page.
It's not as good as the old del.icio.us/popular/slash page. Partly because you can't narrow down by tags, especially if you don't have a paid account (there's supposed to be a list of popular tags from fandom users on the right side of that page, but… it got stuck sometime when Suits was still one of the biggest fandoms, and hasn't moved since. Fixing that is one of the things I really hope Maciej does now that he's paying attention again!)
Mostly though it's because fewer and fewer fans are still bookmarking on Pinboard. And most of the ones who do are people who are also in Pinboard's other primary demographic (techy people who like simple stripped-down solutions and are skeptical of startup culture, basically) so you get a lot of that kind of stuff slopped over into the fandom page.
That is fixable though, if more fans start using Pinboard! I know a lot of the dropoff is due to AO3 making offsite fic bookmarking a lot less necessary, and the ability to log in to browsers and sync across devices making bookmarking through a third party site less necessary too. Plus, the changes to the pay structure means possible bookmarkers are mostly people who've been around for years and years and years, and there are just less of them every year.
But having communal bookmarks is such a useful fandom tool! And bookmark search on AO3, while vastly improved from where it was a few years ago, is still not great. And having the ability to just go to one website every morning and see what Fandom, all of fandom, is talking about today, is just so good. So if you've got a permanent pinboard account sitting around, this is me asking you to think about maybe using it again someday!
(Also it occurs to me that AO3 bookmarks aren't locked, so if I fix my AO3 scraper, I could make it spit out an export of your AO3 bookmarks to import into Pinboard. Hm.)
And the other thing is - pinboard.in/popular/fandom not being all fanworks isn't entirely a downside, because most of the other links are also popular. I don't use Facebook and I don't have a Twitter account, but I often find that the viral tweets, and the links that are going around Facebook, and the good longreads that everybody is sharing, show up on Pinboard.in/popular/fandom before my friends who actually use the big social media sites find them on their feeds or trending. So to some extent, that site is my non-DW social media feed - it has enough viral nonsense and interesting longreads and internet news every day, mixed in with good fanfic! that I don't really miss out on those parts of having Facebook or Twitter. (Also the fact that I often read the more interesting/accessible/scandalous of the techy links means I seem to know more about IT security and general internet architecture than most of my work's IT people, which is just terrifying.) It's like having an algorithmic feed, but it's a generalized one that just has things that are widely popular, and also personal updates from people I actually know aren't mixed in with it. Also it only updates once a day, so I can finish it.
But the other thing about pinboard.in/popular/fandom , another thing that harks back to the good ol' days of fandom, is that you don't always know what you're going to get when you click on a link. You get either the title of the website or a title some Pinboard user gave their bookmark, and you get some tags that some pinboard user or other put on it, and generally that's it. If you click through you can see every pinboard bookmark for that link, with all the tags, and sometimes descriptions or summaries - but that depends on whether any Pinboard user has bothered to add on. It's especially bad for Twitter, for some reason - often all you get for a Twitter link before you click to look at it's a bare URL. If you're someone who really needs lots of warnings, that makes probably makes it unusable, but all the warnings and tags are there after you click through, and it sometimes tempts me to read good things I never would have if I'd seen a summary first.
The other thing is that since the page rebuilds itself every day, and there's no archive, so if something interesting goes off the page before you note it down, good luck finding it again! Although I think that's pretty normal on site with algorithmic feeds.
So it can be a little bit of a skill to figure out what's on that page and what's worth clicking on! So here's today's pinboard.in/popular/fandom: let's go down it and see what we see. (Sorry about the rich text but it made the copy/paste from Pinboard work better.)
With Surgical Precision - metisket - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) [Archive of Our Own] 8
au author:metisket the_untamed wen_qing
Wen Qing time travel fixt AU! Wen Qing my beloved
au author:metisket the_untamed wen_qing
Wen Qing time travel fixt AU! Wen Qing my beloved
orbital decay by defractum (PG, 14,213 words) 3
angst au fic slash 'ao3
Wangxian space AU! Very good.
angst au fic slash 'ao3
Wangxian space AU! Very good.
psyarxiv.com 2
DGNI fav-in-Twitter IFTTT Papers Psychology
Probably an archive of free-access psychology papers? I'd have to switch browsers for it to load, but looks useful!
DGNI fav-in-Twitter IFTTT Papers Psychology
Probably an archive of free-access psychology papers? I'd have to switch browsers for it to load, but looks useful!
if you liked it then you should've put ten rings on it by laiqualaurelote (PG, 6,673 words) 2
author:laiqualaurelote gen fandom:blackpanther fandom:shang-chi fic
Shang-chi and N'jadaka and they were roommates
author:laiqualaurelote gen fandom:blackpanther fandom:shang-chi fic
Shang-chi and N'jadaka and they were roommates
Cocktail party ideas 2
psychology engineering ideas IFTTT expertise
A deeply, deeply tech nerd essay about what's wrong with small talk at parties as reflected through discussion of different fields of engineering and how they talk about each other
psychology engineering ideas IFTTT expertise
A deeply, deeply tech nerd essay about what's wrong with small talk at parties as reflected through discussion of different fields of engineering and how they talk about each other
Competitive programming with AlphaCode | DeepMind 2
ai Programming DeepMind google alphacode
Something about AI, I think? It seemed too deep for me tonight.
ai Programming DeepMind google alphacode
Something about AI, I think? It seemed too deep for me tonight.
Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both 2
web3 metaverse nft #link blockchain
Let's talk about why Blockchain stuff is bad, or possibly not bad?
web3 metaverse nft #link blockchain
Let's talk about why Blockchain stuff is bad, or possibly not bad?
Impacts of lack of sleep 2
sleep food meditation diet drugs
A ycombinator link about why we should all go to sleep already, and interesting comments about how.
sleep food meditation diet drugs
A ycombinator link about why we should all go to sleep already, and interesting comments about how.
building a modern home - Johnny Rodgers 2
architecture design house housing IFTTT
An interesting longread about designing and building your own house (very blorbo-from-my-shows relevant to my current minecraft fixation.)
architecture design house housing IFTTT
An interesting longread about designing and building your own house (very blorbo-from-my-shows relevant to my current minecraft fixation.)
CGI did, in fact, ruin movies 2
cinema culture movies technology film
Interesting analysis about why movies now aren't as good as they were back in the good old days.
cinema culture movies technology film
Interesting analysis about why movies now aren't as good as they were back in the good old days.
The River Runs Forever - Cerusee - 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) 2
MDZS AU where Wei Wuxian becomes Jiang sect leader instead of Jiang Cheng
MDZS AU where Wei Wuxian becomes Jiang sect leader instead of Jiang Cheng
Furries Are Leading the War Against a Book-Banning Mississippi Mayor 2
Vice article about how Furries can do anything
Vice article about how Furries can do anything
Chocolate and Almond Tiger Cake Recipe - NYT Cooking 2
bakedgoods cake chocolate dairy eggs
Another good recipe!
bakedgoods cake chocolate dairy eggs
Another good recipe!
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet | WIRED 2
security hacking northkorea cyber IFTTT
Interesting Wired article about state-sponsered cybercrime and a plucky hacker
security hacking northkorea cyber IFTTT
Interesting Wired article about state-sponsered cybercrime and a plucky hacker
the handyman can ('cause he fixes it with love) by iphigenias 2
buck/eddie
9-1-1 fic - this fandom shows up here a lot lately but I haven't started reading it yet.
buck/eddie
9-1-1 fic - this fandom shows up here a lot lately but I haven't started reading it yet.
DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns 2
Games psychology Gamedev darkpatterns game
A website rating mobile games based entirely on whether they are designed to lure you into unhealthy play patterns in order to get your money/data/adviews or whether they are just designed to be really good games. Looks super useful and very needed!
Games psychology Gamedev darkpatterns game
A website rating mobile games based entirely on whether they are designed to lure you into unhealthy play patterns in order to get your money/data/adviews or whether they are just designed to be really good games. Looks super useful and very needed!
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And obviously, I ALSO hope more people start using pinboard- and I have a specific suggestion as to why they might want to, which is that public ao3 bookmarks are linked to the fic, and authors frequently do check them, and there seems to be. Let's call it "disagreement" over whether it is OK, etiquette-wise, to say negative things about a fic in a bookmark. (I have no opinion on the etiquette thing as I don't use ao3 bookmarks, but for the record, ao3 users stop sending in abuse reports claiming they're being "harassed" by regular old negative reviews in bookmarks challenge, that is not harassment. .) So anyway, why not just eliminate the entire question! Make a pinboard, and be as mean as you damn well please about shitty fic on it!
edit: okay, now that I realize ALL my bookmarks are being displayed on that page, I... may untick the box, haha. Because I bookmark a ton of non-fandom stuff, including stuff that I would probably categorize as personal if I was putting it somewhere that I thought anyone was looking. I guess I could start using private bookmarks more for "reminder to buy this specific brand of underwear" kind of stuff?
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I haven't seen anything along the lines of "buy this underwear" though - it does still require at least two people even on slow days, so it has to be something somebody else has also wanted to bookmark. (Some of the twitter threads that show up are pretty clearly 'two people bookmarking the same friend's cat' though.) And anybody who knows about that page is going to know what it's like and have context for the stuff that shows up! (Also unticking the ticky will still let your stuff show on the non-fandom popular page anyway.)
If you really don't want other people seeing some of your bookmarks you should private them, though - if the popular page ever gets too slow to be interesting, I am absolutely going to go directly to the personal bookmark pages of the last few fandom rec'ers standing, and in that case you see everything.
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Anyway, that's why I never really really do 'interesting links' spam or 'new fic I just read' recs, because 90% of the time it would just be off pinboard.in/popular/fandom anyway.
Personally, I like when people share the stuff "everybody's seen/knows about" from Tumblr or Twitter because I'm not on those platforms and would miss it otherwise, and I imagine I'd enjoy linkspam highlights all the same :) But I understand why that feels redundant!!
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Well, the stuff I get from pinboard.in/popular/fandom is how I get those highlights from Twitter and Facebook that I'm not on! So it would feel like I'm just copypasting somebody else's linkspam half the time.
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lol, so true. "I have an account there but I never use it! Honest!"
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But I do miss social bookmarking! I liked it so much and reading the comments people would write! Like a recs list, but more lowkey.
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There's some social bookmarking functionality on AO3, and it's still happening a bit on pinboard, but it's not the same. :(
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Luckily for us, he's recently given up on that as a lost cause
LOLSOB
I'm a dedicated Pinboard user, and I ALSO hope Maciej gets around to answering his support requests now that we're all doomed.
I hadn't heard that non-users couldn't browse the site. It's working for me right now in a private, non-logged-in window. But if it does go private again, that's going to be a bummer since I maintain![[pinboard.in profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/c3508662f31c/-/pinboard.in/favicon.ico)
fancake over there and it's meant to be a public resource.
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I clicked around and I think non-logged-in users can currently browse a specific account - which wasn't the case right after he changed it, so that's good, that brings back the usability of things like
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I really respected the work he was doing. But yeah a response to my emails would have been nice. D:
Good to know the site's not totally locked down for non-logged-in users. I didn't know until a few days ago that you even could browse site-wide tags. I clicked on one of my tags in the breadcrumb menu and shazam, there I was looking at everyone's bookmarks.
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But you've just convinced me to set up a Pinboard account.
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I'm sure he has an absolutely massive tickets backlog at this point, though, including a bunch that say "I gave you money and nothing happened, where is my money" which I hope he's handling first.
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