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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by zymhan »

somethingor wrote: post #152
segphault wrote: post #71

I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for re…

> every other browser You can just say Chromium

Safari exists, and is quite popular.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by saeedesmaili »

This really hurts. All my content consumption workflow depends on Pocket, I shortlist from my rss reader (inoreader) directly into pocket, then ot gets synced with readwise reader automatically where I listen to the chosen articles [1]. I also use my pocket account's archive as a collection of the articles and writings I have liked (planning to build a personal and simple content recommendation system for myself). [1] https://saeedesmaili.com/posts/my-content-consumption-workfl...

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by timetraveller26 »

So much wasted potential, I was a top 1% reader for a couple years (mostly because I saved a lot of things probably); it was a convenient way to save articles and references in multiple devices but at the end I was frustated it was so cumberstone to keep links organized.

I stopped paying premium and migrated to a self-hosted Wallabag, which doesn't have all the features I want but hey, in hindsight it was the right decision.

It would be cool if they open sourced the code, but one can only dream.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by 4ndrewl »

walterbell wrote: post #108
reaperducer wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your-self-hosted? Only if you're among the .0001% of people who can code it yourself. Otherwise, nothing is different; you're always relying on someone else for their software, feature, security, and compatibility updates.

Are we on Hacker News?

Yeah, bit weird - surely the population of HN is either going to be

- people who _can_ code it themselves, or

- people who believe they can get AI to code it for them

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by [deleted] »

mattrighetti wrote: post #159

(shameless plug) I didn’t like Pocket, so I worked on my own link archiver years ago [0]. UI inspired by HN, a list of links you saved + tags filtering. Plain and simple, less features but does the job for me. I’m actually looking for users to try it out as I have not yet publicized it that much. [0]: https://ulry.app

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by tristanho »

NewsGotHacked wrote: post #158
testfrequency wrote: post #19

Super bummed about this. I know a surprising number of high profile CEOs and founders who live by Pocket, really has just been quietly reliable and simple way to reserve content for later. Despite there being so many other $apps that can fill the gap here, none of them seem to be as clean and straightforward as Pocket has been for me. Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obv…

I have been paying for readwise for about a year and a half now. I was a pocket subscriber for years before they got bought out by Firefox. All that said, I wouldn't call myself an advanced user of either (tag a lot less than I would like, want to revisit more than I do, etc.). I am reasonably satisfied with read wise as a replacement/upgrade to pocket and will continue to pay for it for the time being. My least favo…

That is definitely one of the biggest painpoints, and we feel it ourselves for whatever it's worth!

However, if you're just looking for a replacement for Pocket, you only need the Reader app/extension and it shouldn't be clunky at all.

It's only if you want our highlight-specific reviewing/exporting functionality that you would also need the Readwise app... still not ideal, but merging two complex products like this without making the experience janky/complicated for new users is a really really hard problem!

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by TiredOfLife »

tristanho wrote: post #144
_def wrote: post #18

> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights. boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

You can connect Pocket to Readwise Reader ( readwise.io/reader ), via Pocket's API, which will let Reader view all the tags, metadata, highlights, etc. Even if you didn't want to use Reader, you could then export from inside Reader and Readwise to pull out CSVs of all of your articles+highlights -- no subscription required. (full disclosure: founder of Readwise here, obviously if you want to try our Reader app that w…

Thanks. Will try. Currently Pocket seems to be overloaded, but hopefully it recovers in the 30 trial days.

While your app seems nice on first glance the 10$ a month is not a small amount for non americans. 10$ a year I could stomach.

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