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So much for my hopes of them removing it from Firefox. Uhg.
You want them to remove one of the most useful feature of Firefox? You can remove it easily, but I'd advise you to try using it. It personally helps me go through interesting news and "pocket" it if I don't have the time to read it now, or want to keep my time for more important articles but still think it's an important piece of news. I have both the desktop Pocket application and the mobile Pocket application. They…
So much for my hopes of them removing it from Firefox. Uhg.
Pocket used to have a feature aimed at surfacing high-quality content from the collection of things a user had already pocketed. They removed that feature. I was paying for their premium service before that change. After they removed it, I stopped the premium subscription because I wasn't sure what pocket's value to me was anymore.
Now they have a recommender that recommends things you haven't pocketed yet. But that just encourages the user to accumulate an ever larger collection of pocketed things, not surface the best things in that collection.
Ever since, I've reflexively kept saving things to pocket, hoping they would bring that feature back. But the only practical thing I have done with it is pull up something I just saved recently, because it will be near the top of the list.
Pocket's CEO also writes, “In fact, we have a few major updates up our sleeves that we are really excited to get into your hands in the coming months.” I hope they will bring that feature, or something with a similar aim, back.
Otherwise, you have to click on a FB link to get the unmangled URL, thus counting against your number of free views every month.
I have used Pocket for the last five years or so. 99.5% of the articles I bookmark every day I never actually read. Probably should make me think why I use it at all...
For me it's a great time saver, I see some interesting article during work, but instead of wasting my time on it during work, I save it for later. Granted I get no signal during the subway where Pocket becomes a really useful app, but it results in me being a lot more efficient with reading.`
Mozilla doesn't have the resources to continue with Thunderbird.
I am increasingly baffled by their decisions and how they relate to the strategic plans [0] they've been producing for a while. Despite the worthy words in their plan they seem to have no sense of direction. That saddens me.
That said I'm happier having Pocket as an open source part of Mozilla/Firefox than a surprise integration of a commercial app.
what will happen to pocket premium?
did anyone buy pocket premium? i always perceived it as a sales page that got no sales.