I used to use Pocket religiously but fell off sometime after they pushed a redesign that made it more difficult to use. I've been using Inoreader to save articles now.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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#482I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…
As someone who self-hosts and who used the Pocket+Kobo integration _and_ who hacks away at their Kobo, hopefully folks like you and I can help keep the integration alive.
I already try to prevent the Kobo from upgrading due to unwanted changes to my Kobo patch configuration, so I'm crossing my fingers here.
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#483How can we export the backups from premium version? Let me guess—we can only export the URLs.
Indeed:
title,url,time_added,tags,status
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Safari exists, and is quite popular.
Safari is the only reason we don't rename (yet) Web as ChromeOS development platform. Thanks everyone, especially all those Electron crap apps.
In my experience, Safari has been the slowest to implement useful new standards and is the least transparent about bugs and development plans, so it's very hard to act like they're doing us a favor by preventing better and more open browsers from having more marketshare.
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#485I've always just used Instapaper. It feels weird to use a web service for something that feels like it should be local, though. I'm not sure I'm approaching this the right way.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#486here's the list of alternatives, extracted from this thread:
Instapaper is a good alternative.
Readwise Reader is a strong paid alternative, especially for heavy users and those wanting integration with tools like Obsidian.
Raindrop.io is a useful alternative, including its free tier and permanent copy feature.
Matter is another alternative that has been tried.
Self-hosted options like Wallabag, Linkding, Linkwarden, Karakeep, Omnivore, and Shiori exist.
Obsidian Web Clipper can save articles as markdown locally.
Other less common or custom solutions include Feedly, Histre, Walden Pond (defunct print service), Lighthouse, Full Sort, DoubleMemory (Apple ecosystem), Ulry.app, WordPress plugins, simple text files/spreadsheets, or custom scripts.
(Full summary here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/mozilla-pocket-shutdown-discu...
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> every other browser You can just say Chromium
I was curious what "view transitions" are even about: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-view-transitions-1/ It's yet another 2.8k line specification solely authored by Google employees, introducing a brand new complexity monster (clones of ghost elements represented as a pseudo-element tree ) to... make it easier to add fancy animations. Now what I really miss is a "disable CSS animations" button. I find them very distractin…
That is the generic way to implememt transitions. Alternative is playing css artist and handwrite every single animation. It is also complex.
I hate css animations too btw.
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#488Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The current pricing of Readwise seems like it will not be attractive to the 99% of Pocket users who are just looking for a reader app, and don't want to plunk down $120 every year for that (and various other features they aren't looking for).
It looks like you have a "Lite" tier that doesn't include the reader app. Maybe there should be a free tier that offers only the reader app, and you can try to upsell users from there. Otherwise people who just want a reader app will migrate to Instapaper or other free reader apps. I know that's what I plan on doing!
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#489I'll always remember finding that Pocket had exposed their Redux dev tools to production and they had a "dev panel" you could open that allowed you to bypass all the payment walls (for example switching fonts, layouts, etc). Never used Pocket though, so it didn't do much for me besides being fun to find.
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Agree on search being abysmal - I'm surprised that none of these readings apps realized that the right approach to this space is building an aggregator and solving discovery/search for all writing on the internet. perch.app is the newest entrant to this space, and it's the closest I've seen to getting this right.
Best alt other than perch? For whatever reason I can’t get it to show up in the share/send menu on iOS and doesn’t seem to have a browser extension. How do you send articles to it?
Maybe https://pinboard.in? I haven't used it, but it tempts me a few times per decade.