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podgietaru ◴[] 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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gnomespaceship ◴[] No.44071441[source]
https://omnivore.app is down. Hug of death perhaps?
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1. gnomespaceship ◴[] No.44071447[source]
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/omnivore.app.html says down for more than a week.