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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by hugocbp »

So disappointed. I had such high hopes when Mozilla acquired them, specifically for the integration with Firefox.

However, for years the design has been going the completely opposite direction of what I expected. The focus on more random content instead of my own articles is not what I wanted to see.

Pocket is probably one of my oldest online accounts. I'll be sad to see it go but I guess it was already kind of dead for a few years now.

Amazing opportunity here for a really simple and focused read later app to take the reigns.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by NegativeK »

godelski wrote: post #143
sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

This is what confused me coming into this thread too! I was wondering what it'd be like consider how widely unpopular pocket is around here. Enough that anytime Firefox is brought up people point to pocket. No one defending it at those times so at just hear negatives. I'm sure there are plenty of different users but it's interesting to see what opinions dominate a thread at a given time. I think people just like comp…

There are some from the Pocket disliking group that have made comments here. I bet most don't care that much.

The vast majority of people using Firefox don't care at all.

And then the people are significantly affected, the Pocket users, are going to be the loudest in this thread.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by akirk »

sambaumann wrote: post #99
_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.

anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

WordPress + Friends + Post Collection plugins (+send to e-reader), see https://youtu.be/kHaODAUazwE?t=214

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by drooopy »

Pocket and other similar services always ended up becoming a virtual junk drawer for me, as I was just hoarding content to consume when I have free time, but time never realyl freed itself up and content just kept pilling in. In the end, it just became one of those annoying things that I have to disable on a new installation of Firefox.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ndegruchy »

I remember requesting the source code after they bought it[1]. They kept kicking the can down the road. It looks like they dumped everything in a monorepo on Github[2] which does nothing good for anyone.

Seems like Mozilla is dead-set on grinding up any good will they get from users.

[1]: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/pocket-source-code/43686/11 [2]: https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-monorepo

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by netghost »

sambaumann wrote: post #99
_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.

anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

This might come off as dismissive, but after using services like Delicious from way back, I've more or less ended up using Obsidian to edit a few markdown files that contain links to stuff I liked.

I know there are services that offer more, but if I look at how I __actually__ used them, this does the trick.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by monocasa »

ndegruchy wrote: post #166

I remember requesting the source code after they bought it[1]. They kept kicking the can down the road. It looks like they dumped everything in a monorepo on Github[2] which does nothing good for anyone. Seems like Mozilla is dead-set on grinding up any good will they get from users. [1]: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/pocket-source-code/43686/11 [2]: https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-monorepo

What's wrong with a monorepo?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#170

Post by lxgr »

Ugh, and that only months after Omnivore (a really great FOSS "read it later" app) shut down.

The one constant of "save your favorite articles and websites offline, forever" apps seems to be that they're... very much not forever.

In my view, this not being a native, interoperable feature of web browsers is a failure of the web. I'll be able to listen to a podcast episode I've downloaded as an MP3 forever, and the same goes for ePub books (if they don't have DRM in any case) – so why is the same so hard for blog posts and articles?

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