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Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#31

Post by philips »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I am hopeful that the Readwise Reader product will be good. However, it is still closed beta.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#32

Post by yolo42 »

baryphonic wrote: post #29
yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I've noticed similar issues lately. In fact, I have resorted to keeping my my Pocket browser extension in Brave disabled because for whatever reason, Pocket seems to cause the browser to fully utilize ~1.5 cores. I only discovered this after disabling all extensions and using them one at a time. Pocket was the only one that seemed to have a consistent signal. I haven't had weird Brave CPU spikes since I disabled Pock…

> I've wondered about how to exfiltrate all of my accumulated links I've put into Pocket over the past ~7 years or so.

Yeah, this is what has prevented me from moving away. I was a premium user and used to use their search. I’m not anymore but I still want to keep the list around. I still go back and find references that Google doesn’t show anymore.

There are some apps that move data from pocket to kindle or such, but having an import from pocket in a new product would be really nice.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#33

Post by gnicholas »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I recently heard about Alfread on HN. [1] If you're just looking to replace the front end, you can use it to pull from Instapaper/Pocket feeds.

Not sure if it currently does all you'd want, but the founders are responsive on email so perhaps worth asking for any features that you'd like them to add!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703671

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#34

Post by adambyrtek »

AA-BA-94-2A-56 wrote: post #24
yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

Instapaper is you like cross-platform, including Kindle. GoodLinks if you only use Apple and value privacy.

Instapaper after multiple acquisitions feels even more abandoned than Pocket.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#35

Post by spondyl »

philips wrote: post #31
yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I am hopeful that the Readwise Reader product will be good. However, it is still closed beta.

As a beta user, I can say that while it's super promising and I use it daily, it does still have some rough edges to it hence the closed aspect of it. The onboardings are starting to scale up a bit I believe though. Being able to highlight and take notes on RSS items or emails is very nice.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#36

Post by powersnail »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I've used instapaper for a long time, and it's a better product than Pocket, but it, too, has the problem of missing images sometimes.

If you want to save the entire snapshot of the web page for archival and references purpose, I think zotero is a good choice. But it's not a good read-it-later product.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#37

Post by userbinator »

Animats wrote: post #2

Will it become necessary to log in to use Firefox?

Given that we've seen things like Windows take the "you need to create an online account" route, and only a decade ago that would've seemed absolutely absurd, I think your question raises a good point and the downvotes are unjustified.

The only true answer is "not currently". A "not yet" would be too pessimistic, and "never" is too optimistic. If there's one thing that stands out during the past ~decade of software, it's "things are optional... until they aren't."

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#38

Post by matsemann »

JaggedJax wrote: post #11

This is such a nothing story it's surprising it's so high on hn. There's nothing new with Pocket and nothing new with Firefox, so why are we all complaining about things unrelated to this story? Almost any company will move to provide SSO for all their connected products. Having a separate ff and pocket login is silly at this point.

Because HN loves complaining about how bad Mozilla is, and that they therefore instead use Chrome...

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#39

Post by arepublicadoceu »

gnicholas wrote: post #30
eole666 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard Wallabag is a nice Pocket alternative. And you can host it yourself. I'll try putting it on my odroid one of this day. I'm now using the nextcloud bookmarks extension, but it's rather slow, seems unmaintained, most android apps & browser extensions don't work anymore (way worse than pocket, but at least there is no adds)

I'd considered using Wallabag years ago. How has it evolved in recent years?

I recently tried wallabag on my home server. The web version is fine. Functional even.

But the state of the iOS app is, well, not great. Clunky design, with odd syncing. Which is unfortunate as 99% of my use case is reading it on my phone whenever I’m waiting for something.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

#40

Post by orhmeh09 »

yolo42 wrote: post #32
baryphonic wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed similar issues lately. In fact, I have resorted to keeping my my Pocket browser extension in Brave disabled because for whatever reason, Pocket seems to cause the browser to fully utilize ~1.5 cores. I only discovered this after disabling all extensions and using them one at a time. Pocket was the only one that seemed to have a consistent signal. I haven't had weird Brave CPU spikes since I disabled Pock…

> I've wondered about how to exfiltrate all of my accumulated links I've put into Pocket over the past ~7 years or so. Yeah, this is what has prevented me from moving away. I was a premium user and used to use their search. I’m not anymore but I still want to keep the list around. I still go back and find references that Google doesn’t show anymore. There are some apps that move data from pocket to kindle or such, bu…

Could you share more about what Google misses today? Does the content exist and is now effectively unlisted?
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