Ten Years of Instapaper(blog.instapaper.com) |
Ten Years of Instapaper(blog.instapaper.com) |
OTOH, back when del.icio.us was good, I used it for roughly the same purpose.
But instead it shows up on my Kindle. I'm in a completely different mode when reading my Kindle than I'm in when on the computer. I'm calmer, slower, and I'll actually sit down and read the articles.
That said I also use Pinboard.in. I don’t go back to read everything but I find it a useful research tool for when I remember saving something but not exactly what it was.
the only thing that helped the last few years was to uninstall the browser extension. it means i have to log in to the website if I want to add something and I only go through all that hassle if i 'really' want to read it later
im thinking i might set up wallabag soon and jailbreak my kindle because I think I might have a better chance of reading them there
But I pay for an archive account and it does full-text search, so the other huge benefit is that when what my tabs are full of is PDF ePrint papers, I can search later for things and get results for research questions faster than I can from Google.
This is a surprisingly apt comparison, and is probably why I stopped using it a while back.
I think it is akin to when you work at a place for five years but it is bought by another company at the three year mark. How do you put that on your resume? I worked at <new company name> for five years? I worked at <old company name> for five years? Or split it up and make it look like you changed jobs?
It's awkward. But ya just gotta let it slide as long as it's not disrespectful.
Fun fact: The latter sued the former unsuccessfully several years back.
Maybe many of the engineers have moved on to different projects at Pinterest, but even then, what's left to do at Pinterest? I just looked up "new features in Pinterest", and they're working on AI to identify different things in photos [1]. "Lens can recommend outfits for you if you snap a photo of clothes that are already in your closet" - That's actually a really cool idea. But it kind of feels like a different startup tacked on to the Pinterest brand. I guess there are a lot of directions they can branch out into. Maybe they'll eventually become like Google, working on a lot of unrelated projects. If Google can do it, it's hard to see why other companies can't build up a large portfolio of disparate apps and services.
Anyway, I hope they keep Instapaper running instead of shutting it down. I don't use it myself, but I just like the idea of "finished software" that runs for the next hundred years. Everyone's always trying to change things and increase growth, but they usually end up shooting themselves in the foot.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/pinterest-lens-updates-new-fe...
Back then, people were not accustomed to build tablet-friendly websites and even though Safari was very good, Instapaper was in league of its own when it came to plain old reading, especially when offline.
I found it the best service to be able to just click a button and have long articles delivered to my kindle. I do a weekly batching and it just works.
However, I'm using Instapaper for a long while which is the primary reason keep using it.
But anybody else experiencing lots of bug with the paging view and automatic night mode on iOS? (Page in night mode, but menu buttons and status bars still in day mode, offset of the page incorrect...)
Reporting bugs always met with silence.
Things like pronouncing in an inintelligible way any english words in the middle of an article in spanish, or reading A.P.I. as "A, period. P, period. I, period." make it so that it works great for some articles, and terribly for others.
What do you find lacking about it? I've heard (first-hand) it sounds even better on Android. There are offline voices and also live-streamed voices, and it all sounded pretty decent to me.
It's a service that converts text or websites to audio. It's voices seem pretty good (I've just tested a couple, both with text in english and in spanish).
I love that it haves the ability to integrate the articles I send to Narro into a podcast feed, that I can suscribe to see in Overcast next to my "real" podcast.
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instapaper...
I'd call it abandoned if it didn't fit the platform standards, if it was buggy, if it didn't run on some new devices…
This update in September is enlightening:
Added support for iOS 11 password autofill.
You know which other OS introduced system-wide autofill suppport? Android Oreo.
I think it's safe to say that Instapaper is abandoned on Android.
I'm a heavy Instapaper user myself and was always disappointed with the quality of the official Android app: it runs terribly slow, some articles don't even show up, no image thumbnail, etc.
My app doesn't have all the feature from the official app yet (I'm starting simple), but I'm very open to feedback.
Ever since Pinterest bought them I've been waiting for the sunset message
Instagram has their trademark since September 2011 (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...).
So no, Instapaper is not "lucky" to still be in the App Store.
Don't assume that because Instagram is well-known that they have more seniority and the rights and abilities to do whatever they want.
Though it's easy to assume in this day and age.
I pay for Evernote so I have no storage limitations, not sure if the free version has limits.
I wish pinboard had an option like evernote to display your pinned results next to google search results