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While I was not looking Mozilla has killed Pocket (aka. "read later") without having sent me a notice and now my data is gone (not that I had a lot).

Since Pocket was one of the main reasons I bought a Kobo ebook reader this spring, I'm somewhat annoyed.

But Kobo replaced Pocket with Instapaper, where I apparently even have an account I have not used since 2012 :D

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

https://www.kobo.com/blog/kobos-summer-2025-update-on-new-features-and-fixes

#Mozilla #Kobo #Pocket #GetPocket #Instapaper #ebooks #OurIncredibleJourney

I hadn't logged into Pocket in a while, but discovered yesterday that they are shutting down. :( So today I set up a self-hosted instance of @linkwarden and migrated all of my links from Pocket. It all took less than an hour.
#linkwarden #readitlater #getpocket #selfhosting

I hadn't logged into Pocket in a while, but discovered yesterday that they are shutting down. :( So today I set up a self-hosted instance of @linkwarden and migrated all of my links from Pocket. It all took less than an hour.
#linkwarden #readitlater #getpocket #selfhosting

I hadn't logged into Pocket in a while, but discovered yesterday that they are shutting down. :( So today I set up a self-hosted instance of @linkwarden and migrated all of my links from Pocket. It all took less than an hour.
#linkwarden #readitlater #getpocket #selfhosting

@nikolasdi Thanks for the hint. I tried @readeck now as well and it is great. But I'm still missing the #singlefile integration or at least need to understand how to add it. For my common tasks I may stay with #linkding for now. I also use @obsidian clipper to store really important stuff I need for my active knowledge base and mark and modify the content as needed. #obsidian #pocket #getpocket #bookmark

I've considered migrating my personal home page for quite a while. I've wanted to build everything in #infraascode as a #portfolio too, and a fun exercise, but what implications could be from having that as #oss? (i.e #pulumi state etc)

The idea is I can then easily spin up #microservices (i.e. I'd like to visualize a list of the articles I've been reading on #getpocket or the books I am currently reading via either #goodreads or #Bookwrym). Having it in #iac would make it somewhat trivial.

So, Pocket, the article-archival tool that keeps getting worse the more you use it, has just become immeasurably worse.

I've reverted from version 8.6.x to no, not 8.5, not 8.4, not 8.2, but 8.1.1.0 from freaking February of this year to revert these completely fucking brain-dead changes.

The TL;DR: link is https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/mozilla-corporation/pocket/pocket-8-1-0-0-release/

That's what you want to install and freeze on until Pocket catches a motherfucking clue.

I've had a long an unhappy relationship with this feature and app. Its sole claims to my continued use are that it holds nearly 5 GB of content hostage, and that it, unbelievably, seems to be the best of what is an immensely shitty application space. See my now-six-year-old rant virtually all of which remains valid: https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/#

Most recently, Pocket has lost two features:

• A "page flip" mode, which though itself hugely flawed, is better than scrolling through articles, especially on e-ink devices.

• The ability to view all articles either in the (hugely preferable, very useful) #ReadabilityJS view, or in-app in a "web view". The latter now revert to your device's default Web Browser app on mobile devices.

The problem with that latter is that the task of annotating and tagging articles (my principle remaining justification for Pocket) is made vastly more tedious --- and it's already more than adequately tedious in previous Pocket versions. To the point it's not even worthwhile.

Fortunately, I was able to hunt down a prior version of the app (using the APKMirror app), and I will not be upgrading Pocket beyond the most recent version I can find which still supports both Page Flip and Web View modes, as noted above 8.1.1. from 17 February 2023. (Few if any of Pocket's "improvements" over the past five years have had any value to me whatsoever, so this is little loss.)

There is of course a Relevant xkcd: "Software Updates":

https://xkcd.com/2224/

I would so like to see a useful document-management solution for tablets and e-ink devices with the ability to managed both offline and online (Web-based) content.

Boosts and re-sharing this on other platforms is strongly encouraged.

Edits: I'm updating this toot as I'm finding out more. In particular, what version(s) of Pocket are NOT affected by these changes is not yet clear.

#Pocket #GetPocket #MozillaPocket #Mozilla #ApkMirror #EInk #DocumentManagement #xkcd #xkcd2224 #kfc #webfs #docfs