It's a "royal dick move" to allow users to copy data between competing applications? Uh, OK.
No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands, especially in this case when your competitor happens to be -up to this moment- an independent guy that has done this project for years on his own. The service is not being terminated, that info has been posted for a long time... so again, unnecessary and unasked for. That's all.
so an independent guy worked so hard on a project for years, i should just let him be, and work on some thing else..
>And I have hundreds of "important" bookmarks in Chrome that I'll probably never check again. That's a pretty terrible analogy. What I have in Pocket is more than a bunch of bookmarks, it's a local archive of everything I've added. I can read it in a nice flowing text format and benefit from limited search functionality. I can reference anything in there anytime whether I have connectivity or not, whether the source…
if you have unread items going back for more than a year, chances are you are adding more to the list than you are removing. I guess hes right, i have observed this in myself and many colleagues from the days of delicious onwards. You bookmark/tag alot of interesting stuff because you are absolutely sure you will need it again and then forgetting about it after several weeks/months never looking at it again. In the c…
I've done this in Instapaper. I have many thousands of articles (thanks to the instaright Firefox extension) going back years. Clearly, this is what Clay Shirky says is a filter problem, not a problem of too much information. I no longer horde in instapaper like I used to but I would like to at least be able to be able to export what I have since I started using it and even transfer the FULL archive to pocket. Probably doesn't apply to many, but: "If you have more than 2,000 articles, only the most recent 2,000 will be included. " I not only bought Instapaper, but I've been a paid subscriber since the beginning (so I can search my archive for potential research) and it would be nice to download a full archive, but nope, I can't.