Ratafia Currant

Quoting from the blog, which has no apparent entry permalinks:

Tag Intersections

You can now filter by combinations of tags using the syntax /u:username/t:apples/t:oranges/. Up to three tags can be combined this way.

For the moment, this only works on the user+tag pages, and not in the global tag page nor any of the RSS feeds.

This makes me happy, as it was one of the features I missed most after moving away from delicious. I had also mentioned it in my feedback to Maciej Cegłowski, which I’ll also reproduce here:

On the whole, I think Pinboard is a very nice service, and holds to its goal of being simpler/less-cluttered than delicious. The ‘anti-social’ philosophy has worked out pretty well for my purposes. I think the two concessions of ‘x others’ and the public stream are just right.

The feature I miss most from delicious is filtering on multiple tags. I guess the search feature comes close, but I’m not sure I want the full search functionality that uses.

The recent addition of the code:404 keyword is clever, and half of a nice solution for the issue of dead links. (I still hope to see the caching mechanism brought back, though I understand the processing problems.) In his response, Maciej said processing isn’t really the issue.

Personally, I’ve never found tag clouds to be particularly useful. I could see it being interesting when graphed over time — I think I played with a third-party thing that did it using delicious — but that’s not really something that’s relevant for the service itself. The service I referred to may have been cloudalicious.

I would be interested in having the toread tag connect to Instapaper, and I seem to remember this existing or planned at some point?

Out of curiosity, would it be hard on the server for me to pull down my bookmarks once a day? I’m not sure what the computation costs are, but I know the delicious documentation strongly discouraged using anything other than the ‘updates since’ API call. Apparently a non-issue, at least for now.

Maciej is seeking feedback from all Pinboard users — either by email (see his site) or blog posts. If you use it, why not take a moment?