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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 2 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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podgietaru ◴[22 May 25 18:59 UTC] No.44065481[source]▶
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/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

I think Pocket was amazing. I think the idea worked amazingly for someone like me, who is an enjoyer of reading, but had a hard time finding a moment to sit down and do it.

I am upset that Pocket is going. I am upset that Omnivore shut down. I am upset that my Kobo will probably remove that integration and thus ruin my Self-Hosted Omnivore's integration with it.

I think it could have been a lot, lot more.

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1. arvinsim ◴[23 May 25 03:49 UTC] No.44069705[source]▶
It's ironic that the device that is supposed to facilitate reading(e readers) makes it so hard to read articles from the web.
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2. pm3003 ◴[23 May 25 07:14 UTC] No.44070634[source]▶
I feel like there should be an easy and common file transfer protocol, like a more straightforward bittorrent,FTP,MTP to exchange with these devices.