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Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by athenot » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:39 PM UTC

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

If you're on macOS / iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices.

It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by Analemma_ » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #19

Up next. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Based on your username, for a minute there I thought you might be Marco Arment, which would've made this comment even more hilariously cynical.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by jeffrand » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:42 PM UTC

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

The post says that, at least for the time being, nothing is going to change for their users. Hopefully you wont be forced to sign into Pinterest to use Instapaper.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by adamnemecek » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

This is offtopic but am I the only one who keeps confusing Pinterest and Pinboard?

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by osi » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

athenot wrote: post #21

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

If you're on macOS / iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices. It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.

I wish the reading list was available via the browser so I could access it on my Linux desktop at work. That's the only reason I don't use it :/

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by overcast » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #22

overcast wrote: post #19

Up next. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Based on your username, for a minute there I thought you might be Marco Arment, which would've made this comment even more hilariously cynical.

Been using the overcast username since 1994. Also, I'm much better looking. :)

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by Arcsech » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

Pinboard has a read-it-later feature. It works for me, and I know it won't change suddenly out from under me (unless idlewords gets hit by a bus, but eh).

"It works, it's nice and fast, and will continue to work the same way for the foreseeable future" is pretty much the highest praise I can give a service like this, and Pinboard nails that aspect.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by derefr » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

athenot wrote: post #21

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

If you're on macOS / iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices. It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.

I use Mobile Safari on iOS but Chrome on macOS. This means that, as much as I love Safari's Reading List, it's basically "unavailable" to me on the desktop. To put something in the Reading List from Chrome, I have to focus the URL bar, copy the URL, open Safari, paste and go to the URL, and then ⌘⇧D to put it in the list. (I can also right-click on the URL bar in Chrome and use the "Add to Reading List" OS Service, but the mousing involved is actually nearly as much work as the series of keyboard-gestures in the above.)

The fact that there's no way to get anything to actively sync between Chrome and iCloud is maddening. Why has nobody reverse-engineered the iCloud API and made a Chrome extension to talk to it?

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by pcl » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #28

athenot wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're on macOS / iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices. It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.

I use Mobile Safari on iOS but Chrome on macOS. This means that, as much as I love Safari's Reading List, it's basically "unavailable" to me on the desktop. To put something in the Reading List from Chrome, I have to focus the URL bar, copy the URL, open Safari, paste and go to the URL, and then ⌘⇧D to put it in the list. (I can also right-click on the URL bar in Chrome and use the "Add to Reading List" OS Service, b…

I've recently switched my primary browsing back to Safari on my 2012-era MacBook Air. Battery life is noticeably better.

I still launch Chrome and FF regularly for development, but my tab-hell lives in Safari now.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

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Post by sneak » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

athenot wrote: post #21

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

If you're on macOS / iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices. It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.

The iOS reading list frequently fails to sync offline content to my device, stranding me contentless on airplanes. It's incredibly annoying, and is specifically why I began using Instapaper.