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Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…
So what kind of value does Instapaper adds/will add to Pinterest? Will there be a pin it later functionality? I fail to see how Pinterest gains from such an acquisition.
1. Aquihiring may be cheaper then new hires overall, considering externalities. 2. The underlying tech may be useful. 3. The user base may be acquired. 4. the business relationships may be retained if they are beneficial. 5. Potentially less competition in a market.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wallabag ( https://www.wallabag.org/ ) if you want self-hosted. Pinboard ( https://pinboard.in ) offers archiving for (I believe) $25 a year. Or Pocket ( https://getpocket.com/ ) which used to be Read-It-Later.
It's funny how even after all those years, people still feel the need to mention "formerly Read It Later" when they talk about Pocket.
>Pocket, I remember. ReadItLater used to exist, maybe still?
there was an obvious reason to name Pocket as "formerly Read It Later"
> The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco I wonder how the instapaper team feels about that (and/or how much say they had in it).
The "must be willing to relocate to San Francisco" meme now even applies to companies with no presence in San Francisco.
LinkedIn now needs a pre-canned "No thanks, I'm not interested in moving to Silicon Valley" response.
Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…
The post says that, at least for the time being, nothing is going to change for their users. Hopefully you wont be forced to sign into Pinterest to use Instapaper.
Except a new third party (Pinterest) will sooner or later have access to my Instapaper data. I trusted Instapaper because they had a sustainable business model not based around ads. I do not trust Pinterest because their business model is based around selling my personal information and activity to advertisers.
Basically it's time to stop using Instapaper :(
Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…
Good opportunity to build an OSS alternative? Or even a side-project... in the possible event Instapaper gets sidelined. That always seems to happen. With the exception of maybe Reddit.
Can you summarize what their features are? From a quick web search, it seems to be: - Parsing a page for main body content, removing cruft, and reflowing it into an aesthetically pleasing layout - Cloud bookmarking these artifacts So how does this not run up against anti-scraping TOS provisions? Does money change hands between the publisher and the content-reflower?
I view it as a specialized browser view, although the cloud bookmarking doesn't fit with that. I use Safari's reading view on pages all the time as they're too visually busy for the screen on my iPhone 5.