Creating Pinterest pins has been failing 50% of the time lately

[WHS_Designs]

Since last month, creating Pinterest pins has been a hit-and-miss affair. After hitting the Publish button, about 50% of the time, I'll have to recreate the same pin because my first attempt won't save the new Pin to my boards.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

[waterart]

Nope, I just created a pin and it saved to my board

[PAZP]

Never had that problem. I've been pinning a bit more lately and no problems on BRAVE, Vivaldi and Opera browsers. 

[WHS_Designs]

I've been using Mark's (@HightonRidley) bookmarklets quite a bit lately, and I wonder if the server is being overloaded/cutting out because of high(er) usage rates.

I'm using Microsoft Edge.

[HightonRidley]

My server is only used when you're making the image. Once you've done that, my server isn't involved any more. Any issues with publishing are down to Pinterest.

It could be because you're trying to pin too quickly? I always leave a good handful of minutes between pins.

[WHS_Designs]

Mark,

Thanks for clarifying. I space my Pins apart a few minutes, too (when I use your bookmarklets, I actually do writeups, sometimes from scratch, as opposed to straight (and fast) Pinning). 

I'll try and see if the issue happens on Google Chrome. It may be a quirk of Microsoft Edge. I noticed this "failure to Pin" starting near the end of December 2022.

Thank you!

[HightonRidley]

Wait a minute - got confused... my server is NEVER used by the bookmarklets (I got mixed up with the speed-sharer). The images etc are all done in and by the browser you're using.

[WHS_Designs]

just as an update: I used Google Chrome instead of Microsoft Edge, and my manually created Pins are also failing to pin about 45-50% of the time on that browser, too. I eliminated the hashtags from my descriptions, and spaced the timing of the pins apart, but neither of those two strategies worked, as sometimes even my first Pin of the day fails to publish.