I'm hoping this is a 'Halo Car' kind of project for Pinterest. Instapaper has, I'd guess, a relatively large, legacy subscriber base, and their parsing and read-it-later tech is pretty mature. Hopefully, it's a product that they use for development of features to see if they are useful into the main Pinterest product, and so it stays around instead of just getting killed in 6 months.
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#12Does anyone have experience to share re: Instapaper vs. Pocket (or something better)?
I've pretty much switched to Evernote. Its web clipping is pretty good. The pure reading experience is't as good as a dedicated program, but in return I use Evernote for more than just reading, and having the articles already in a "read later" notebook helps me keep the ones I want to keep. Note: I have a paid account so it downloads all my saved articles to my iPad.
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I'm a huge fan of Pinboard. I like that it has a clear I-am-the-customer profit model, and it's performed flawlessly for me for several years now.
Are there apps that work with Pinboard? I'd like to support it, but I want to be able to background sync my saved stuff to my phone, like I do with Pocket.
There are several third party apps - I'm using Pinner, and it means I can save pages on the go from the usual share menu, and of course access my saved links.
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#14Does anyone have experience to share re: Instapaper vs. Pocket (or something better)?
I was a heavy user of Instapaper and switched to Pocket.
The reading interface for Instapaper is much better. Pocket has more clients, browser plug ins, etc so you can take it anywhere (When I switched Instapaper Android wasn't available).
Both are lame when bookmarking things like github repos.
I really want these services to open up their engine so that I can write a plug in for displaying bookmarked gists or repos.
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#15Does anyone have experience to share re: Instapaper vs. Pocket (or something better)?
I used Readability in the past and it works great! But then they too shut it down on Sept 30.
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#16Looking forward to Pinterest shutting Instapaper down in 2 years.
Hello Pinboard.
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#18Does anyone have experience to share re: Instapaper vs. Pocket (or something better)?
I was a heavy user of Instapaper and switched to Pocket. The reading interface for Instapaper is much better. Pocket has more clients, browser plug ins, etc so you can take it anywhere (When I switched Instapaper Android wasn't available). Both are lame when bookmarking things like github repos. I really want these services to open up their engine so that I can write a plug in for displaying bookmarked gists or repos…
I run a rival site to these. Can you email me a description of what this kind of plugin would do? (support@pinboard.in)
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a huge fan of Pinboard. I like that it has a clear I-am-the-customer profit model, and it's performed flawlessly for me for several years now.
Are there apps that work with Pinboard? I'd like to support it, but I want to be able to background sync my saved stuff to my phone, like I do with Pocket.
Sure. Pinner for iOS looks good, works well, and has a share extension to allow you send pages from Safari directly to Pinboard. I like Spillo for macOS for the same reasons.
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#20This smells like an app that will be shutting down in about six months.
My first thought was to comment and say how sad I'd be if Instapaper shut down (I'ma premium subscriber), but in all honesty, my Instapaper queue feels more like of a burden than something I look forward to.