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Is Pinboard.in Down Again?
4 points by dlegg 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I noticed the bookmarking service pinboard.in stopped working on 19/10/2024 and three days later it is still not responding.

I see this question has been asked before and usually the outages are a few hours so it is worrying that this one is so long. I also see that the single owner has a record of not maintaining the site and seems to prefer writing comments on X. I joined pinboard some 10 years ago having jumped ship from the doomed Delicious service. I have had no major problems in all that time which makes me sad that I may have to leave again. I'm hoping it comes back briefly so I can update my backups. Failing that I may have to hack the Android app to extract them from that.

Interestingly all the downdetector web sites say it is up and running for them. I think this is because they simply check for a connection and don't care if they ever get a 200 response code. I found the IP address of the domain and noticed that a ping fails completely to connect whereas if I simulate a web browser using the wget command to port 80 or 443 it connects but never gets a response.

Anyhoo it would be nice to know I'm not the only person in the world who noticed!



I have noticed the problem on a few different days this week including right now (Oct 24 @ 14:25 EST).

From what I see, the issue is the API url (https://api.pinboard.in) timing out.

The web interface seems working, albeit a bit slow.


I don't use Pinboard, but I was able to open the website in my browser without any issues. Both https and http seem to work fine.


Thanks very much!

As an experiment I turned off the WiFi on my phone and tried accessing the site through the mobile network and... you are correct, it is up and running!

So judging from the tracert I think packet routing is failing when it tries to leave England and go to the US!

I think my fibre broadband company needs to get a new Visa!




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