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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 3 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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poisonborz ◴[22 May 25 17:30 UTC] No.44064404[source]▶
Saving links and offline reading is dime a dozen nowadays, but the one BIG feature was recommended articles, which basically opened the reading list of the world and you could read extremely interesting longform articles based on your list. It was the best magazine you could imagine. But I guess it required maintenance and moderation so they axed it - in the typical fashion of an acquired product I might say.

I still wish for something like this with privacy in mind and community maintained.

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1. zimpenfish ◴[22 May 25 17:58 UTC] No.44064784[source]▶
> the one BIG feature was recommended articles

The TWO BIG features were recommended articles and integration with IFTTT. I think, of the suggested alternatives, only Instapaper has IFTTT integration (modulo setting up a local webhook).

Given I have multiple things per day (and have for 10+ years) going into Pocket, this is going to be a big pain in the arse to deal with.

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2. poisonborz ◴[22 May 25 18:10 UTC] No.44064923[source]▶
You could try Wallabag. It provides 3 separate RSS feeds per saved link status, that could trigger IFTT.
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3. zimpenfish ◴[22 May 25 19:50 UTC] No.44066076[source]▶
Ah, I'm talking about feeding -into- Pocket. I haven't found anything except Instapaper that has direct IFTTT actions for saving URLs or anything which natively supports a webhook kind of thing for saving (but I'm sure there must be something because it seems such an obvious thing to support!)