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The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Re: The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Post by idlewords »

welanes wrote: post #17

I'm working on a bookmarking service right now (literally, open in the other window). Instant search, highlighting, a UI that encourages 'rediscovery' of articles that are saved but not read ("hey you, here's what you bookmarked 7 days ago") and a reading feature similar to readability. There's space here to build a product that people love and that sticks around. Parsing web pages is proving tricky in some cases, if…

Tweet me (@pinboard) when it's ready and I'll be happy to tell people there's a new bookmarking game in town. I like to advertise new arrivals because it makes me look confident.

Re: The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Post by dredmorbius »

nicky0 wrote: post #19
dredmorbius wrote: post #3

Sad, but hardly surprising. I would really like to hear the backstory on this. I'd run across Readability a few years ago and found it useful. There was an update to the application about 2012/2013, which as is typical, offered a few things, but also took away others which had been useful. And then .... nothing. The Facebook page hasn't been updated since Januarey 23, 2014. The blog is ... offline. Twitter actually s…

When readability started it had an innovative business model: collect monthly from each user, and share out 70% to the owners of the pages viewed. However, a number of bloggers and content owners objected to this, and made bug fuss about it, and pretty much poisoned the "with it" tech croud on the idea of Readability. Readability then pivoted to a more conventional read-later app and read-now service. But it never se…

I vaguely recall that. Pity, all 'round.

Re: The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Post by jm3 »

welanes wrote: post #20
tachaeon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

will it be self hostable?

Launching as a service to begin with, however considering people's justified concerns with bookmark services folding I'll look at that. Key feature will be easy import from every other popular bookmark service. Pull in your data in seconds, see if you like how we treat it, and make a call on switching.

would love to try it. what's it called?

Re: The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Post by welanes »

jm3 wrote: post #23
welanes wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Launching as a service to begin with, however considering people's justified concerns with bookmark services folding I'll look at that. Key feature will be easy import from every other popular bookmark service. Pull in your data in seconds, see if you like how we treat it, and make a call on switching.

would love to try it. what's it called?

Unnamed as of yet but I'll send the link your way once live. A week or so.

Re: The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016

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Post by sandstrom »

davidp670 wrote: post #6

If you're looking for a bookmarking alternative BookmarkOS has been awesome so far ( https://bookmarkos.com ). Also, Instapaper ( https://www.instapaper.com/ ) recently got acquired by pinterest, so it looks like it has a future.

Being acqui-hired doesn't spell well for its future.
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