Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

Post by K_REY_C » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:49 AM 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 ChrisLTD » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 2:58 AM UTC

zodPod wrote: post #95

hullo wrote: post #83

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"Hi I just got something for free and I'd like the opportunity to complain about it now." I mean he said there are no plans to shut it down. What timeframe? You want a promise that for X years you'll continue to receive this service for free, unchanged? They're extending the value. There's literally nothing to be grumpy about.

Except you literally just stated what there is to be grumpy about. > "..I just got something for free and .." What you're saying is now that they got it for free they have no right to complain about the fear of it being unstable. Which is EXACTLY why people are having an issue here. They are fearing that the fact that it is free means it also won't be able to be relied upon and you just proved why they are saying tha…

Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 3:35 AM UTC

bthdonohue wrote: post #36

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

This smells like an app that will be shutting down in about six months.

Brian from Instapaper here. We have no plans to shut the app down, and a big part of the value the app provides (parser improvements, aggregate information on links) requires the ongoing operation of the service.

Post by jtrtoo » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 3:39 AM UTC

notgood wrote: post #108

robbyking wrote: post #20

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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.

They should throw machine learning at it and send you the best summaries they can, that may reduce the "burden" feeling. Or maybe a way to automatically set an expiration for each link

Post by baddox » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 4:11 AM UTC

mightykan wrote: post #51

untog wrote: post #10

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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.

Unfortunately there are no good iOS apps for it. The only decent one, Pinner, decided, inexplicably, to drop iOS 9 support as soon as iOS 10 was released. iOS 9 is still fully supported by Apple. (Using iOS 10 isn’t an option for me for now). The iOS 9 version’s share extension still has a few bugs that completely block the third-party apps’ UI when adding URLs. Also the Pinner developer never responds to any support…