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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by riffraff »

segphault wrote: post #71

I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for re…

Same here, I was a readitlater user, recent iterations somehow broke it and it stopped syncing for offline viewing which was my main usage of it.

Screw you Mozilla.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by pjmlp »

epolanski wrote: post #422
pjmlp wrote: post #248

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Safari is the only reason we don't rename (yet) Web as ChromeOS development platform. Thanks everyone, especially all those Electron crap apps.

> Thanks everyone, especially all those Electron crap apps. Electron apps have no stake nor impact of any kind in the results of browser market share. None.

Indeed, shipping Chrome alongside each application, because developers couldn't be bothered to write cross-platform Web code for OS Web widgets or the users system browser doesn't have nothing to do with it.

None at all, those poor devs, write portable Web code is so hard.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by rsaz »

randomor wrote: post #226

Wow, after Instapaper went back to indie from Pinterest[1] and Omnivore closing last year this is no longer surprising. This is also proof that read-it-later app as a category is not sustainable as a venture / company backed service. This is also a category of app that I believe could be better served by local-first native apps. As there is no reason why a server has to be requirement to enjoy the full service. Your…

Your app looks great, I love when apps make good use of iCloud syncing.

If you don't mind me asking, what's your plan for monetization? I'm considering moving over from Raindrop.io, but am a bit worried about basic features ending up behind a subscription.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by pjmlp »

AgentME wrote: post #484
pjmlp wrote: post #248

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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.

Welcome to open standards.

Same happens across OpenGroup, Khronos and ISO standards in the industry.

Apparently what is so great about them, is too much work in what concerns doing the latest shinny thing on the Web.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by politelemon »

paradox460 wrote: post #475
bwat49 wrote: post #376

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I think firefox is going to end up like Opera lack of investment in gecko and dropping marketshare of firefox will result in more and more compatibility issues over time (which further accelerates dropping marketshare), until they're eventually forced to become another chromium based browser

A few years ago it was Safari that was the new IE, the one browser you had to go out of your way to support all its dumb little quirks. Firefox and Chrome+friends more or less "just worked" Now Firefox is moving into that role. Except Firefox has no killer captive audience. Safari was pushed because of iOS Mobile users. Firefox doesn't have that. So when you're a frontend dev at big corp, and you have to get stuff do…

IE was not really about quirks, it was about it abusing its dominant position to do whatever it wanted, the quirks were a symptom. Safari is still the new IE. But yes to the rest, Firefox's lack of dominance will get worse if it fails to keep up.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by goku12 »

hiq wrote: post #302
goku12 wrote: post #90

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I use KOReader [1] on my Kobo. It supports Wallabag [2]. Wallabag offers both hosted [3] and self-hosted options. There's also a standalone kobo client for Wallabag [4]. In addition, Wallabag also supports direct import from Pocket. [1] https://koreader.rocks/ [2] https://wallabag.org/ [3] https://www.wallabag.it/en [4] https://gitlab.com/anarcat/wallabako

Thanks, just set it up via koreader that I already had installed. Any opinion on using wallabako vs koreader? koreader might involve some more steps to sync it looks like?

It has been a while since I used Wallabag on KOReader and I have no experience using wallabako (that project wasn't around when I tried Wallabag). But seeing that you're already using KOReader, I don't expect either of them to present a challenge to you. As far as I remember, using Wallabag on KOReader, including sync was simple enough.

The only issue I have with Wallabag is that it reduces the battery supported time significantly. This isn't a big issue in my case, but a longer backup would be nice. However, others have reported that they don't suffer the problem to the same magnitude. Perhaps wallabako can reduce that power usage when KOReader can be exited.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by pablomalo »

_tqr3 wrote: post #95
NAHWheatCracker wrote: post #46

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> I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than useless to me. Low bar to hit.

Oops a typo. Adding to that, all i want is a download current page to read offline, sort of like pdf (embedded image and styles) but on reading mode.

If that's all you need, you could try the SingleFile browser extension. Works great on mobile, too.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by Teever »

whyenot wrote: post #315
major505 wrote: post #247

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Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

Their reckoning day is coming when Google stops paying them $500m+ a year to be the default search engine. That payment alone account for 80% of Mozilla's budget, and has made them fat, wasteful, and directionless. It's really upsetting to me personally, I gave a lot (time, code, and money) to Mozilla in the early days when they were really struggling.

Does anyone know if Mozilla has built up an endowment/trust fund type thing that will allow them to operate without further revenue from an entity like Google?
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