Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

Post by corobo » Tue, Nov 01, 2016, 11:27 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #89

mikeleeorg wrote: post #57

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Oh, I didn't realize Pinboard had a Read Later feature. I thought it was just a bookmarking service. I finally found some info about Read Later on your website, though I didn't see it where I first looked (in your FAQ). So this is different than your Archival feature, yea?

It's just a status flag you can set on a bookmark. It's useful for saving stuff you want to pretend you're going to read, then will never look at again.

Post by dilemma » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 12:17 AM UTC

agentgt wrote: post #52

I would probably pay ~$10 for some combined services of blogging, link saving, todo list management, ad removal, photo storage, maybe even email etc. (posthaven, pinboard, asana, etc). I'm not saying they have to be integrated just that I might pay that much for a bunch of premium services if the price were bundled.... and the services were entirely focused on functionality of power users, privacy, and not ease of us…

Post by eropple » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 1:53 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #85

tomcam wrote: post #70

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I like how seriously Brian answered a post by someone named AdmiralAsshat

Well, the guy is an admiral.

Post by kobayashi » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 1:54 AM UTC

OberstKrueger wrote: post #21

purple-dragon wrote: post #4

Does anyone have experience to share re: Instapaper vs. Pocket (or something better)?

I've been using Pocket the last few months after having used Instapaper for a few years. For iOS, I find the Instapaper app to be a lot better than Pocket. A ton of font options that don't rely upon paying the Premium subscription, and the UI is less obtrusive. I also like that when you share links from the Instapaper app, it sends the actual link. Pocket's app shares links as redirects, so everything shows up as a s…

Post by x0x0 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:19 AM UTC

Splendor wrote: post #80

bthdonohue wrote: post #61

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I understand and appreciate the skepticism, however, the reason we're making this change is because we want to provide the best experience for our users. Pinterest receives value from the ongoing operation of Instapaper in the form of continued parsing improvements and aggregate information about links on the web, and that value is enough to justify our relatively small operating costs.

Would you mind elaborating on how Pinterest derives value from your "aggregate information about links on the web"? What types of data do you/they glean through Instapaper?