Submitted 9 months ago by benjaminoakes@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://getoffpocket.com/?rby=lemmy
I previously posted this at lemmy.world/post/30816595
I really appreciate all the feedback from the community! I haven’t had time to address everything yet, but I thought I’d share the redesign as I continue to make this a useful tool for everyone who needs to find a new home for their articles. For anyone who saw the old version, I think you’ll agree it has come a long way!
For those unaware: RSS is still a thing and still works. You don’t need fancy platforms and algorithms to follow sites that post stuff you care about. Just an RSS catcher.
On F-Droid, Capy Reader does a great job and supports full article downloads to circumvent the sites that only put previews on RSS.
This isn’t analogous to RSS. I’ve been using RSS for more than twenty years. I’ve been using Pocket to save web pages for eleven years (migrated to Wallabag). RSS is great for catching new info. Read-it-later services are great for storing information.
I use bookmarks for that. All the browsers I use support them.
Certainly RSS adjacent! Definitely different purposes, as you’ve described. Wallabag and FreshRSS are a nice combination.
Good look! Might I suggest it would look better with the pocket logo being next to the “Get off pocket” text instead of below.
I’ll think about that. It’s to the right on desktop, but it’s not quite as nice on mobile, is it.
Great, you stole my domain. Now I have to come up with a whole new brand for my new line of travel sized fleshlights.
I was going to say. This is neat, but it’s not what getoffpocket.com had, last time I shopped there!
lizardsocket.seks
My treat.
I thought Omnivore was sold.
Also, isn’t pocket being renamed to something? Odd having it listed as an “alternative” to itself!
Thanks for the feedback!
Omnivore is still around as an open source project. There’s no official hosting. That may need to be represented better.
As far as I know Pocket is completely shutting down. It would be big news if it isn’t. I heard some things about someone buying it, but the Pocket website hasn’t been updated in a couple weeks since I heard that first.
It’s a good point about Pocket being listed. There are some plans to make it easier to compare alternatives to Pocket and that’s why it’s there. A bit of a partially finished thought right now, given that I pulled that out of what was released. I’ll look at hiding it.
You’re sponsored and accepting donations? Somebody better fork this guide before the GitHub gets yanked
I’ve made some updates. There are many perspectives to view a guide like this. I hope there are some improvements to the self-hosting perspective. getoffpocket.com
Yeah I’m sketched out that it shows only paid monthly subscription options even for open source self hosted options that you probably don’t need to pay a penny for
You have some good feedback. Thanks for taking the time to provide it.
It takes a lot of effort to make something like this. I appreciate any support people are willing to provide so I can continue improving it.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Very attractive page. I’ll check it out more when I have some free time. Fwiw, I went from Pocket to Wallabag. Still too new to comment on how the two compare. Import to Wallabag appears to have been a completely smooth transition (once I regained access to my Pocket account). This was when exporting from Pocket and importing to Wallabag. Trying to do it with the Pocket APIs failed every time.
benjaminoakes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Glad to hear you’re trying Wallabag! I made this tool that could be helpful for others in your situation: benjaminoakes.github.io/pocket-to-wallabag/ It sidesteps the Pocket API entirely.