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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by anilakar »

podgietaru wrote: post #211

I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…

Another long-time Kobo user here. I hadn't even heard of Pocket before I bought an Aura One, but it quickly became my preferred way to copy miscellaneous content from PC to the reader.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by aspenmayer »

Is the shutdown date possibly related to this info I was able to find from the DOJ?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-implements...

> As explained in NSD’s Data Security Program Implementation and Enforcement Policy Through July 8, 2025, NSD will not prioritize civil enforcement actions against any person for violations of the Data Security Program that occur from April 8 through July 8, 2025, so long as the person is engaging in good faith efforts to comply with or come into compliance with the Data Security Program during that time. These efforts include engaging in compliance activities described in that policy, such as amending or renegotiating existing contracts, conducting internal reviews of data flows, deploying the CISA security requirements, and so on.

> At the end of this 90-day period, individuals, and entities should be in full compliance with the DSP. This policy does not limit NSD’s lawful authority and discretion to pursue civil enforcement if entities and individuals did not engage in good faith efforts to comply with, or come into compliance with, the Data Security Program.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by gnomespaceship »

podgietaru wrote: post #211

I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…

https://omnivore.app is down. Hug of death perhaps?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by retinaros »

alias_neo wrote: post #599
gxqoz wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I have 32k saves and hit the same problems with search being extremely unreliable. About 5 years ago quotes stopped working in search. Trying to find "The Grapes of Wrath" would return all instances of "of" and "the." You could sort of hack it by searching for the most distinct word (maybe "Grapes") if you already knew exactly what you were searching for. I long suspected there was some architectural change they…

Is something like Apache Solr (a search index) well suited for something like this? I've deployed and used it at work for searching specific, well-specified bits of information, but I don't know how well it would work on large chunks of text like articles etc; I assume this is its real purpose and it should fit, but I'm guessing.

Just pgsql is enough. Even a chache db or sqlite do full text search

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by gnomespaceship »

gnomespaceship wrote: post #617
podgietaru wrote: post #211

I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…

https://omnivore.app is down. Hug of death perhaps?

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/omnivore.app.html says down for more than a week.
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