Hmmm, the bookmarklet recently stopped working. I wonder if this is related in any way.
Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
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Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not really sure. I’ve been using Pocket since it was Read It Later and it hasn’t become very much more useful to me since then. It probably could have advanced in many more ways given the right people and resources. They have access to these, but the great innovations have been in bundling the product and administering its accounts. I’m glad they haven’t changed the Pocket experience too much. I still use and pay…
I've never understood - what does Pocket do over 'save to reading list' in your browser? That's how I save things to read later - and it's free.
I don’t know. I guess I stated using it before that was a common feature, and it was useful to have a cross-platform way to save bookmarks across devices. It’s the easiest cross browser option IMO.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not really sure. I’ve been using Pocket since it was Read It Later and it hasn’t become very much more useful to me since then. It probably could have advanced in many more ways given the right people and resources. They have access to these, but the great innovations have been in bundling the product and administering its accounts. I’m glad they haven’t changed the Pocket experience too much. I still use and pay…
I've never understood - what does Pocket do over 'save to reading list' in your browser? That's how I save things to read later - and it's free.
Fair question. For me, it was the cross-device sync and offline functionality. Also, save to reading list didn’t exist when I started using Pocket.
Some people also use Pocket as a repository.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#64Somewhat 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 used Raindrop.io for a while after moving off Pocket, it’s much better. Now I’m trying out mymind but it’s costly so I may revert back if I don’t find it overly better.
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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?
Using a selfhosted version behind a subdomain of one of my TLDs. Something to be aware of - it can't be hosted behind a specific URI if you plan to have other stuff hosted on the same web root path (like example.com/wallabag), it always needs it's own (sub)domain (wallabag.example.com).
Other than that, it works pretty well with most text-based content. I'm using it through the Android app occasionally, and while the app won't win any design awards, it serves it's purpose.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#66Has anyone around here tried to run their own pocket/ff account replacement server for session management? I did some reading a couple of years ago but got caught up in other things and never even tried doing it.
Basically impossible to do without docker and even then, it feels like it would be a full time job to maintain.
I played around with the idea of writing a minimal version that cuts out all the fat but even that seems like a monstrous undertaking.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#67Has anyone around here tried to run their own pocket/ff account replacement server for session management? I did some reading a couple of years ago but got caught up in other things and never even tried doing it.
Basically impossible to do without docker and even then, it feels like it would be a full time job to maintain. I played around with the idea of writing a minimal version that cuts out all the fat but even that seems like a monstrous undertaking.
See my sibling. It’s a mess to do the initial setup but after that the maintenance is trivial and quite hands-off.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#68Somewhat 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…
Save as ebook extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saveasebook/), everything goes in a folder managed by syncthing so I have it on my smartphone as well.
On the scale of years, products fail, get bought, are unmaintained, become too expensive, etc... An export of your database is always a hassle to manage, and you must hope there will be an importer for the next product that will also fail a few years down the road.
On the other hand, files have always been there and will always be there. Epub is a standard-enough format that will live. The highest piece of complexity is syncthing, which can be easily replaced the day it doesn't work anymore. Bonus: I have all my data offline so I don't need connectivity, and I lower my environmental impact.
Too often products feel like a reinvention of the whole stack because it's easier to sell, rather than reusing proven tools and using them the way they were supposed to be used.
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#69This 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...
I use Mozilla for the same reason I vote for a shitty political party.
Nothing better exists than the heaping turd that we have.
Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
#70I'm wondering if this will affect the Pocket integration on Kobo eReaders.
Hi all! I'm the head of product at Pocket. We're in active conversations with Kobo right now to find ways to preserve that connection. It's a really important one for us.