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Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by idlewords » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 5:17 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #118

gant wrote: post #31

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I just subscribed. Very nice and simple service, love it. The only bad thing I can say is that the "popular" tab seems to be HN delayed by half a week or so.

My complaint about the popular feed is that it's mostly tweets and Pinboard doesn't name Twitter links anything useful. It would be awesome (for the popular tab and for my own Twitter bookmarks) if Pinboard would use the text of a tweet as the bookmark title.

Yeah, I'm actually drinking the coffee right now that I will use to fix that!

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 5:28 AM UTC

alexott wrote: post #73

pervycreeper wrote: post #24

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Pocket lacks the very useful send-to-kindle feature in Instapaper. Instapaper frequently fails to send images properly in their kindle digests, but it's still better than nothing (the key feature IMO). On the other hand, the Instapaper iOS app has some kind of problem with syncing, taking an inordinate amount of time to download a few articles (with the potential to ding you with substantial data costs if you open th…

Pocket also doesn't have notes...

That is getting to be a major annoyance.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by thekevan » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 6:33 AM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

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

Or has figured out a way to sell your data.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by mightykan » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 7:55 AM UTC

baddox wrote: post #119

mightykan wrote: post #51

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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…

For me, Pinner's share extension blocks the app's UI while it's saving still in iOS 10.

This is unfortunate as I thought an iOS 10-only update was supposed to fix this. Goes to show that the Pinner developer doesn’t care about providing any support.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by frankquist » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 12:01 PM UTC

nashequilibrium wrote: post #84

bthdonohue wrote: post #36

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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.

Hi Brian, I currently use pocket, why should I use Instapaper instead, is there any differentiation? I also receive the Instapaper weekly emails, which I love for the curation of top stories. Thanks.

See downthread for some comparisons :)

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by paule89 » Wed, Nov 02, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

purple-dragon wrote: post #4

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

just try a ifttt recipe to sync everything over from one to the next. with ifttt you can nearly do anything you want with both services.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by mrks_ » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 1:49 AM UTC

sireat wrote: post #92

gant wrote: post #31

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I just subscribed. Very nice and simple service, love it. The only bad thing I can say is that the "popular" tab seems to be HN delayed by half a week or so.

I've been a very happy user of Pinboard for the last few years (ever since Delicious got super slow). I even subscribe to the archive feature, although I have no illusion that I will get around to reading all my 20k bookmarks again... It seems Pocket(which recently started using their extension to politely spam Chrome start page with article suggestions) and Instapaper are in some sort of war of attrition while pinbo…

You can turn off Pocket's start page suggestions in the extension's options.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by Terretta » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 10:14 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #87

clydethefrog wrote: post #79

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Just add a comment system - that would be a HN competitor I would love to use.

Hah, that's an entertaining idea!

Wait, wait, add the work "API token" tag filter first!

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by michaelmrose » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

dmux wrote: post #64

michaelmrose wrote: post #44

I stopped paying for their service as I was broke and they kept billing my account leading to several insufficient funds fees on an overdrawn account that they wouldn't stop billing. Can't say I'd even use their service for free.

This doesn't really sound like it was their fault.

I canceled my service and they continued to bill me for a monthly service I had asked to be canceled even when I was threatening legal action.

I had to go to my bank and report them for fraudulent charges so that the next however many charges wouldn't count against me.

Re: Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone

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Post by michaelmrose » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 5:41 PM UTC

mitchell209 wrote: post #65

dmux wrote: post #64

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This doesn't really sound like it was their fault.

Are you telling me people have to be responsible for their own money? The horror.

I canceled my service and they continued to bill me for a monthly service I had asked to be canceled even when I was threatening legal action.

I had to go to my bank and report them for fraudulent charges so that the next however many charges wouldn't count against me.