I use Instapaper to highlight research sources from the web. Then export my notes to markdown using the iOS app. I hope to God they don't ruin Instapaper. I really need it.
Instapaper is joining Pinterest
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, and I think that's part of the joke for Pinboard.
It's even better because in a bit of a dick move, they tried to buy pinboard.com back in 2009 or 2010. I say "dick move" because Pinboard predates Pinterest and they were aware of me.
Odd. Pinboard (I am a subscriber -- hi!) is not on pinboard.com either.
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#93> 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).
Are people who choose to not participate in the move denied unemployment?
Because that would really suck if you're loyal to where you live. Company has a "successful" exit, but you effectively get let go and denied unemployment.
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#94Sad panda. I had amazing time with this app. Now I have to find alternative that will work well on iOS and macOS. :(
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#95Instapaper to me is the epitome of doing something that "doesn't scale", and yet it did.
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#96Hi all,
Brian from Instapaper here. There seem to be a number of comments expressing concerns about the acquisition, and I wanted to just jump in and offer to answer any questions you have about the acquisition.
Based on the comments I've read below the main concerns seem to be that Instapaper will either be shutdown or materially changed in a way that effects the end-user experience. I can tell you that neither of those are the plan for the short-term or long-term of the product, and I am personally looking forward to providing you with the same great service under a new owner.
Brian Donohue Instapaper CEO
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#97If it's really going to be run as a separate property why does the team need to move to SF?
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#98Bummer. 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…
I really like http://raindrop.io - its pretty, easy, and has a mobile app / chrome extension.
This looks interesting. Will give it a shot!
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#99Hi all, Brian from Instapaper here. There seem to be a number of comments expressing concerns about the acquisition, and I wanted to just jump in and offer to answer any questions you have about the acquisition. Based on the comments I've read below the main concerns seem to be that Instapaper will either be shutdown or materially changed in a way that effects the end-user experience. I can tell you that neither of t…
Delighted competitor here. How do you force your entire staff to relocate across the country without "materially changing the end-user experience"?
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm cool with the idea of providing a readable option in Pinboard, since I already do something similar to get the text out of the page for indexing. Any library for this you particularly like?
Readability ( https://github.com/luin/readability ) is a classic, and included as part of Firefox (I think, maybe that's been discontinued). It's essentially a bag of hand-written heuristics but they're pretty good heuristics. Some interesting reading is Christian Kohlschütter's thesis on this problem, which is framed in academia as "how do we assemble good text corpuses from webpages for data analysis, which means r…
Firefox maintains a fork of Readability for Firefox's reader mode here: