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Habe zum Glück heute noch einen Export anstossen können. Der Import nach poketto.me verlief auch problemlos

heise+ | #Pocket verabschiedet sich: Sieben Read-Later-Alternativen vorgestellt | heise online https://www.heise.de/tests/Pocket-verabschiedet-sich-Sieben-Read-Later-Alternativen-vorgestellt-10464775.html #heiseplus #ReadLater #Mozilla #MozillaPocket #FirefoxPocket #MozillaFirefox

@itsfoss
“Is Firefox on the right path? Maybe.”

Really don't think so! #Mozilla rather cares about the #AITrend more than its users.

Ah, and also, killing good #software for the sake of this #trend. And when you think that it's little probable for it to succeed in it, when there are much bigger players on the table! 🙁

#browser #Firefox #ArtificialIntelligence #artificial_intelligence #MozillaPocket #MozillaAI #privacy #privacyMatters #dataPrivacy #security

For several years my work flow has been to have feeds in Feedly and save articles to Pocket to read later.

With @mozilla killing Pocket, I'm wondering if @wallabag would actually serve as a replacement for both.

I'd be curious to hear any comments or experiences from folks. I'll be trying it out this week regardless, but I'd still love any tips given what my work flow has been.
🧵1/N

#ReadItLater #rss #mozillapocket

Ende von Mozillas #Pocket-App ruft Kaufinteressenten auf den Plan | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Ende-von-Mozillas-Pocket-App-ruft-Kaufinteressenten-auf-den-Plan-10395708.html #MozillaPocket #Mozilla #Digg #Medium

Aus für Bookmark-App: #Mozilla stampft #Pocket ein | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Aus-fuer-Bookmark-App-Mozilla-stampft-Pocket-ein-10393892.html #MozillaPocket #Fakespot #MozillaFakespot

I hear Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, and it took me back to my troubles with the app last year + my adventures to find a #FOSS replacement. I did Pocket → Omnivore → Raindrop, and I'm still loving Raindrop so far (+ its lovely RSS feed).

https://vis.social/@candide/113007744655773749

https://vis.social/@candide/113394605656887249

I highly recommend Raindrop to anyone looking for a Pocket alternative, and it's easy to migrate: https://raindrop.io/integrations/pocket

#Mozilla #MozillaPocket #Pocket #Omnivore #Raindrop #RaindropIO #RSS

The only reason I was still using Pocket alongside @omnivore was to access all my saved articles via an #RSS link provided by Pocket. This way, I could just access the articles in my RSS reader instead of having to open a separate app or web page.

I've just found out today that this feature has been discontinued (and I found out the hard way, via #FreshRSS).

What a bummer!!

RE: https://vis.social/@candide/112741919036427720

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/can-i-subscribe-to-my-list-via-rss

#omnivore #omnivoreapp #pocket #pocketapp #mozillapocket #mozilla

And, please @firefox/ @mozilla, remove those tracking links from #MozillaPocket. With that, you bring discredit on yourself.

https://mastodon.online/@shaedrich/112167697451986072

As Mozilla now plans to focus their efforts on open-source AI, now's prolly a good time to recall that Pocket still isn't fully open-source despite promises made almost seven years ago:
https://blog.mozilla.org/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-pocket/

#mozilla #mozillapocket #OpenSource

@mutkitta Thanks, I'm aware of Wallabag but after several earlier transitions (still not fully recovered-from) I'm leery of anything I don't fully control.

I'll also note that Pocket still haven't replied to my email sent over two months ago.

(I'm not sure if that's because their spam system is still refusing Protonmail, but that would be yet another strike against Pocket.)

#Pocket #GetPocket #MozillaPocket #Mozilla

I'll also note that on APK Mirror, v. 8.1.1.0 has more downloads than any release of Pocket dating back to 7.64.1.0, in September of 2022.

Which would suggest some possible level of agreement that it is in fact preferable to other releases.

#Pocket #GetPocket #MozillaPocket #ApkMirror

OK, this is getting fucking ridiculous.

I've installed and reverted three versions of Pocket so far trying to find one that performs with a tolerable level of annoyance. This is hours spent managing a fucking application's brokenness instead of being able to read and research.

Hint: It's not 8.5, 8.3, or 8.2. Currently trying 8.1, from February, though I swear I'd updated since then (I usually check for updates on apps weekly). I'll update parent when I find it.

OK: 8.1.1.0 seems to revert both behaviours. That's the 17 February 2023 release here: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/mozilla-corporation/pocket/pocket-8-1-0-0-release/

Meanwhile ... the Google Play reviews discussion is illuminating, and the natives are not happy as of April, 2023:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro (Archived as that's a dynamic page: https://web.archive.org/web/20230708225314/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro)

Also #ApkMirror is a motherfucking godsend for situations such as this: https://www.apkmirror.com/

#Pocket #GetPocket #MozillaPocket #ApkMirror #FuckingFuckAlreadyMozilla

Copy of my support email sent to Pocket.[1]

Further Pocket 8.6 issue: "Full article view" is no longer supported in the Pocket app itself.

This is a dealbreaker full stop. I've reverted to an earlier version of the app which doesn't include this functionality (currently trying 8.5.0.1) and will not upgrade the application further.

There are numerous reasons why having a flawed or even Web view in-app version of the article is useful:

I use Pocket to annotate articles, mostly by adding tags to them. Often the tags are copied directly from the text itself (personal names, institutional or organisational names, place names, specific concepts, etc.), and having to navigate back and forth between a browser and Pocket's own tag-editing / entry interface(s) is utterly disruptive and destructive to workflow. If your goal is to keep people from tagging articles, well, congratufuckinglations, but as a desired and useful feature, seriously, fuck this shit.
(Being able to add tags directly based on selected text, or to have that text copied to the tags editor for further refinement, e.g., removing stop characters (commas), and editing down to tag max lengths (25 chars) would also be useful. But well over five years into dealing with Pocket's bullshit, who the fuck am I kidding?)
Readability.js It's really a killer fucking feature. "Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem." The reader-mode view for articles is vastly and indescribably better than the default for 99.999999999999999999% of all online content. Sure, it sucks when the origin item is so utterly fucked up that Readability can't make heads or tails of it, but that's really not your fault, and I've appreciated that bad parsing can be reported and does seem to eventually get fixed.
Paginated navigation. Yes, as I've said, Pocket's swip-based gesture UI/UX is horrible, but pagination, especially on e-ink devices, is hugely preferable to scrolling. I wish you'd fix this as I've long suggested: a fixed rather than fluid layout, Pocket article tools (select, copy, highlight, etc.) directly accessible from page-flip mode, a region-based navigation as with e-book reader software rather than gestures. But even the shitty previously-existing version is better than nothing at all. Low bars and all.

I'll further note that the behaviour of the Web-based Pocket client dumping me to the original document rather than Pocket's render of it is similarly absolutely maddening.

Please, for the sake of all of us, pull your goddamned heads out of your collective asses.

Notes:

1. For well over a year now, Pocket seem to be unable to receive (or acknowledge) email from Protonmail accounts. So this is both record and alternative delivery.

#Pocket #GetPocket #MozillaPocket #Mozilla #PleaseForTheSakeOfAllOfUsPullYourGoddamnedHeadsOutOfYourCollectiveAsses

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