Pinboard is still online, still accepts signups at $22 per year, and your bookmarks are still there. But active development stopped years ago, communication is close to nonexistent, and in 2026 long-time paying users are publicly walking away. It is not dead; it is unmaintained in every way that matters to someone deciding whether to keep trusting it.
Last reviewed: July 12, 2026.
Current status at a glance
| What | Status |
|---|---|
| Site (pinboard.in) | Up, accepting signups |
| Price | $22/year, archival accounts slightly more |
| Bookmarking, tags, API | Working |
| New features | None in roughly a decade |
| Official blog | One post in January 2025; before that, nothing since July 2020 |
| Support | Community reports of unanswered email going back years |
What "still running" looks like here
Pinboard has always been a one-person service, and its pitch was exactly that: no venture capital, no growth targets, a fee that pays for the servers. For years that made it the sane choice for developers who had watched free bookmarking services die.
The problem is that the maintenance model quietly became the product's biggest risk. The official blog went silent between July 2020 and January 2025, when a single "Cavalcade of Updates" post appeared. Around the silence, users documented the decay in public: a widely shared 2024 post titled "The end times have come for pinboard.in" described broken archival links and unanswered support email, and in June 2026 a long-time customer published a detailed breakup post that made the rounds among exactly the audience Pinboard serves.
None of this means the service will vanish tomorrow. It means nobody can tell you it won't.
Should you keep paying for it?
If Pinboard currently does everything you need and you keep a fresh export, inertia is a defensible strategy; the service has outlived many prettier competitors. The calculation changes if you use the archival tier (the feature users most often report as degraded) or if you'd be hurt by an outage nobody is around to fix quickly.
Either way, do one thing today: export your bookmarks (Settings, then backup; Pinboard offers HTML and JSON formats). An unmaintained service with your only copy of fifteen years of bookmarks is a bad combination, and the export costs you two minutes.
If you're ready to move
We wrote a separate, detailed guide: Pinboard alternatives for developers. The short version: self-hosters go to linkding or Karakeep, people who want hosted bookmarking with polish go to Raindrop.io, and people whose real use case was "save articles, search them later, own the data" tend to want a personal reading library rather than another bookmark pile. That last group is who Gleamr is built for: full-text search across the content of everything you save, and a complete JSON export anytime, from a paid product whose business model is the boring, sustainable kind Pinboard originally promised.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Pinboard still working in 2026?
Yes. The site is up, signups are open at $22 per year, and core bookmarking works. However, there has been essentially no development for years, and support responsiveness is a documented problem.
Is Pinboard abandoned?
Not formally. The maintainer posted a blog update in January 2025, the first since 2020. But with no feature development in about a decade and recurring user reports of unanswered support email, most long-time users treat it as minimally maintained.
How do I export my Pinboard bookmarks?
Go to Settings, then the backup section, and download your bookmarks. Pinboard offers HTML and JSON export formats. Do this even if you plan to stay.
What should Pinboard users switch to?
It depends on the use case: linkding or Karakeep for self-hosters, Raindrop.io for hosted visual bookmarking, and Gleamr for a hosted, searchable reading library with full JSON export. See our full comparison of Pinboard alternatives.
Whatever you choose, keep your data exportable. That's the lesson Pinboard's own users are teaching right now.
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