Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla's wasted effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla "scam" and now that it's being removed, ~90% of the comments are "sad" and "I used it a lot."

The two opinions aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

I used and enjoyed Pocket, but never paid a dime for it so I can’t imagine that Mozilla made much if any money off of me. That’s probably true for most users, and as such it’s not difficult to imagine that Pocket ended up being a bad purchase for Mozilla in terms of diversifying income.

This is a perfectly reasonable distribution once you consider that only a small fraction of people who really care about something are motivated enough to comment about it.

There's a small group who complain loudly about Pocket, a small group who are really sad to see it go, and probably a much larger group that either doesn't know what Pocket is or doesn't care enough to write a comment.

It's important to keep this in mind when reading online discussions in general.

This.

I'm in the "didn't really care either way" camp. Pocket was not something interesting or useful to me, but I could remove it from the UI so its existence also wasn't annoying to me.

> I used and enjoyed Pocket, but never paid a dime for it

I did subscribe to Pocket Premium for a while but it wasn't really worth the money (plus they were being arseholes when I was asked for API support.)

I went out of my way to disable it in about:config in the 3 different booleans I needed to do that. But dancing on the grave of something is meh.

~99% of comments like this continue to fail to realize the simple fact that there is no contradiction in different people having different opinions.

And if you're keeping stats, try to find at least 1% of "hypocrites" who claimed it was a "scam", but are now "sad"