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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: 0s | source
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lxgr ◴[22 May 25 18:35 UTC] No.44065206[source]▶
Ugh, and that only months after Omnivore (a really great FOSS "read it later" app) shut down.

The one constant of "save your favorite articles and websites offline, forever" apps seems to be that they're... very much not forever.

In my view, this not being a native, interoperable feature of web browsers is a failure of the web. I'll be able to listen to a podcast episode I've downloaded as an MP3 forever, and the same goes for ePub books (if they don't have DRM in any case) – so why is the same so hard for blog posts and articles?

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eviks ◴[23 May 25 05:52 UTC] No.44070230[source]▶
You'll be able to read an article you save locally forever as well, that's the easy part
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1. lxgr ◴[23 May 25 12:24 UTC] No.44072198[source]▶
Yes, but saving it locally is the hard/unergonomic part.

There's the great SingleFile extension, but it doesn't always work, and it's a bit of a pain to do on mobile compared to just sending a page off to a reading app via the share sheet on iOS.

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2. eviks ◴[23 May 25 12:29 UTC] No.44072225[source]▶
"unergonomic" exactly! But that's the same for an mp3 podcast episode! You can't easily save one on a mobile to auto-sync with your other computers and also allow highighting/tagging/syncing playback position/favorites.

Ergonomic is precisely the core value proposition of all these services, "dumb" save has been possible for any such content since forever.