The recent post on archival accounts reminded me of a question I have been meaning to ask. Do websites get re-archived if they change? I'm thinking of two circumstances:

1. I bookmark a site and the site later goes down - will the archive save a copy of the site as it looked when I bookmarked it?

2. But what about WIPs? If I bookmark an AO3 work in progress, will the archive get updated when new chapters are added to the bottom or will the archive stay the way the site looked when I first bookmarked it (saving only the first chapter, for example)?

I'm guessing it keeps the sites as they looked when they were bookmarked, which means I should go back and re-bookmark all the fics that were WIPs when I initially bookmarked them.

Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone here has an archival account at Pinboard? I'm thinking about getting one, but many of the links I bookmark are on Livejournal or AO3, meaning sites that have "click to proceed" warnings. Does Pinboard get around those or would I end up with an archive full of "click to proceed" pages?

Thank you in advance.

I've updated PinToDW to version 0.8. (I've also started using version numbers, as you see. I'm actually wondering about using SourceForge or GitHub. If someone has Opinions about software repositories, I'd love to hear them.)

This version brings support for categories, i.e. you can now separate your bookmarks depending on how they're tagged. If you post fandom tags, you may want to separate Art from Fics from Vids, for example, and now you can do it very simply.

I've also separated the configuration file, which will make it easier for future updates, as you'll just have to change the actual script file.

Finally, you'll now be able to post your bookmarks uncut.

I've (barely) updated the tutorial. Do not hesitate to holler if something's not clear. In true coder's fashion, I hate writing documentation.

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Future (hypothetical) developments are available at the Changelog page. Given that I plan to support Delicious (on one side) and Livejournal (on the other) in the near future, the name "PinToDW" will become irrelevant soon. Any suggestions on a catchier name will be received with gratitude :)

Any suggestions for future development are also welcome. I'm not promising I can fit everything, but I can try.

You can follow all the posts about PinToDW on my Dreamwidth journal using the tech:pintodw tag.

So much excellence on Pinboard recently!

1. URL pages now list all the people who have bookmarked a page, and include their tags, description and date saved. (Interestingly, my Date Lines script now seems to work nicely on URL pages thanks to the update, but if you use Sort Visible Links you should update to the latest version of the script to prevent it from trying -- and then failing -- to work there.)

2. Public profile pages! (Well, public to anyone logged into Pinboard.) Enable your profile by going to settings->privacy and choosing "Enable public profile". Then a link to your profile page will appear in the top nav menu, and you can go there to set up it up. Of particular interest to fandom: you can indicate your accounts on various websites, including LJ, Dreamwidth and AO3. AMAZING.

3. Check out the new Pinboard directory to see all the public profiles that have already been enabled.

Crossposted to DW: http://pinboard.dreamwidth.org/8253.html

I've updated my tan and brown user style/site skin so that it also styles the latest additions to the user interface. If you installed it when it was new it might be a good idea to change it for this updated version.


Crossposted to Dreamwidth.

Two new options are available on Pinboard!

Do you enjoy having your tags arranged in strict alphabetical order? If you say the word, Pinboard will now automatically do it for you on all your bookmarks.

Do you sometimes wish you could see the URL of a bookmark without having to mouse over the darned link? Now you can! Full URLs, displayed right under your bookmark titles, there for looking at.

To opt-in to either of these features, go to your settings tab, find the new "bookmark display" section, and check the magic ticky boxes.

crossposted to Dreamwidth Pinboard comm

Pinboard's "copy to mine" link now works like my Inline Save script: instead of doing a straight copy of the link to your account, it adds an inline form to the page so you can do your own custom tagging, change title/description text, etc. Yay! Now we can all uninstall Inline Save. I love it when my scripts become redundant -- it's the Greasemonkey coder's dream. (PS In three years, it never happened once on Yahoo!Delicious.)

Maciej did alter the site code when he implemented this change, and it's possible that the update broke some of my other scripts. Let me know if you encounter any bugs!

Oh, and I made a quick script for forestgreen, which adds a link to the popular/fandom page to the top navigation menu: Pinboard - Popular Fandom Nav Link.

ETA: Aaaaand now there's also one for popular/wikipedia: Pinboard - Popular Wiki Nav Link. :)

Crossposted to DW: http://pinboard.dreamwidth.org/7192.html

I updated Inline Save again today, this time to make it work on the popular pages (popular/fandom, popular/wikipedia and popular).

The script is keyed to only work on bookmarks that have the "copy to mine" link, so when I was first developing this script I didn't think it was buggy when it didn't work on the popular pages, since as far as I could tell there were no copy to mine links there. Apparently they are just so faint as to be nearly invisible until you hover over a bookmark. Mysterious behaviour which I'm afraid my script does away with -- I forced opacity on the div that holds the copy to mine and save to mine links, mostly because it seemed like too much work to implement the scripted hover behaviour for the injected save to mine links, and also so that the inline save form wouldn't be too pale to read.

Crossposted to DW: http://pinboard.dreamwidth.org/6976.html

The settings page now has a tickybox for self-identifying with fandom (settings>general>"I'm part of fandom. Hooray!"). Maciej says this information will be used to create a popular/fandom page and extra fields in our public profiles. Eventually, according to the explanation of the tickybox on the website, there will be a fandom-specific settings pane.

Great news! Pinboard now supports sorting the autocomplete drop down by tag frequency, so you can ditch the userscripts I wrote for that functionality. You need to enable the native Pinboard frequency sorting by going to your settings page and checking both "Tag auto-completion" and "Sort tags in autocomplete pulldown by frequency". \o/