| Sad, but hardly surprising. I would really like to hear the backstory on this. I'd run across Readability a few years ago and found it useful. There was an update to the application about 2012/2013, which as is typical, offered a few things, but also took away others which had been useful. And then .... nothing. The Facebook page hasn't been updated since Januarey 23, 2014. The blog is ... offline. Twitter actually seems active, though I'd thought that hadn't been active either. I really liked the concept, had issues with the execution, loved the bookmarklet (for rendering pages within a browser in "readability view"). But this had obviously been abandoned for a long, long time. I've been slowly schlepping articles to Pocket. I guess I'll have to speed that up.... Hrm. I find this about the design firm behind Readability joining Facebook, a year ago: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/01/16/design-partners-behind-m... |
However, a number of bloggers and content owners objected to this, and made bug fuss about it, and pretty much poisoned the "with it" tech croud on the idea of Readability.
Readability then pivoted to a more conventional read-later app and read-now service. But it never seemed to recover from its original bad press.