I haven’t used it in years, but still this piece of news makes me a bit sad
I use it somewhat regularly. This definitely makes me sad.
I was so sad getting this notification.
I use it basically every day to read articles and bookmark sites to check out later.
I am trying out InstaPaper, but honestly I still prefer Pocket. It was my number 1 app in 2024 and it’s a shame to see it go.
I understand some people saw it as irritating or a waste of time, but it’s not just another news app. You could save offline copies of pages and use reader friendly mode. Not just reading it offline, but making a completely separate copy. You could also highlight specific parts of the text, which you wouldn’t be able to do on a regular web page.
(Some pages I bookmarked using Pocket were later removed from the web, and the offline copy would have been the only copy of it still existing on the web had I saved them longer. I understand not being a fan of your older work as a creator myself, but I think it’s really sad to have those content as lost web media. I personally thought they were amazingly written and highly underrated.)
I wanted to give my perspective as someone who really loved it. I wish they had given a donation option or terms to keep it going, but I get it. Budget cuts happen all the time, and sometimes things are too good to last. Maybe it’s because it wasn’t a social network clone that it had a quiet but loyal following, instead of being the next SubStack or next Reddit.
I’ve heard that the Digg founder is interested in buying it. Not sure whether that’ll go through.