[tptacek]

Why do you want major updates and improvements? Are you a customer of Instapaper's, or an investor hoping your dollars today pay off in a much better product later? A thing I like about the service I use is that it doesn't add major new things regularly; it just does the thing I ask it to do and gets out of the way.

[wpietri]

I'm in the same category. They said the plan is to "ensure Instapaper can continue for the foreseeable future", which is all the feature I need.

I could believe they will think of other things I want besides continuing to work well. But I don't want them to feel like they have to be on a feature treadmill.

[bloodorange]

Unfortunately, though this might be the view of some (or many) users, the organisation which provides the product - if profit driven - can not maintain the 'development' level of staffing just for maintenance and likewise the valuation also changes if they are only in maintenance mode.

So, it is not realistic to expect that they'll not do much. Ultimately, this is the bane of a consumption drive society.