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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 4 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.728s | source
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interestica ◴[22 May 25 18:02 UTC] No.44064821[source]▶
Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.
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sswatson ◴[22 May 25 18:05 UTC] No.44064857[source]▶
My first thought as well. I wonder what Kobo will do in response to this announcement.
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1. timvdalen ◴[22 May 25 18:09 UTC] No.44064906[source]▶
Me too, I hope there will be a replacement with the same low friction.

I've been using IFTTT with RSS feeds to add serialized stories to my Kobo as they release.

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2. podgietaru ◴[22 May 25 19:23 UTC] No.44065753[source]▶
They should be able to change it with fairly minimal changes. I managed to modify some things to proxy articles from Omnivore to it, and the functionality remained largely the same across the two services.

They'd have to implement some kind of login, but they they should just be able to build some kind of converter between whatever format and the format that is expected by the Kobo device.

3. xandrius ◴[23 May 25 12:05 UTC] No.44072089[source]▶
Could you share the flow if someone wanted to replicate it for their own Kobo?
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4. timvdalen ◴[26 May 25 07:26 UTC] No.44094891[source]▶
Yes, but it currently depends on Pocket working.

I have an RSS feed from RoyalRoad that new episodes come in on. Using IFTTT, I have an action set up to, whenever a new item comes in on that feed, add the _URL_ of it to my Pocket account. Then, Kobo just syncs the Pocket articles automatically, and the new episode is added.