So a question for Pinboard users especially. How big should I let an archiving account (or a regular account, for that matter) get before I start to cut people off? I'm talking in terms of bookmarks and terabytes stored. What's a generous allowance for both in your eyes?
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For context, this stuff follows a power law like everything else online (so there is no meaningful 'average user'), and I've only had to shut accounts a couple of dozen times over the life of the site, for doing things like firehosing half a million bookmarks into an account.
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More context: I have 152 TB of storage, and the average size of a stored bookmark in our fallen age is 1.8 MB
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Why is a bookmark so heavy?! Isn't it all but a URL and a tag or two?
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These are archived bookmarks I'm referring to, so 20 font files and 940 copies of jQuery
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Not a Pinboard user so I'm still confused. Do you cache the bookmarked pages?
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Users can pay extra for an archiving feature that caches the pages and indexes them for fulltext search.
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