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by ashishb 1944 days ago
Pocket is on the death bed. Instapaper is good but last I checked they didn't let you create an RSS feed. I ended building a readbility viewer with an RSS feed for personal usage.
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> Pocket is on the death bed.

What makes you think that? Happy Pocket premium user here. The product staled a bit for quite some time, but it received a large-ish update in January and they've posted this at the bottom of the changelog:

> We’ve also made significant changes to our underlying codebase so we can make more rapid improvements in the future.

That definitely doesn't sound to me like it's anywhere close to being killed.

I've been trying to cancel my account for days and their account subscription management page just redirects to login for me. Does it work for you?
Just tried it, and yeah it does. But when I re-login, it seems to take me back to the proper place.
> Pocket is on the death bed. Instapaper is good

Instapaper is more dead than pocket is. Their android app hasn't been updated since June 2019 [0].

[0] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instapaper...

Pocket works great, even on the free plan. The apps have a beautiful UI and it is fast.

Huh, what's your reasoning for this? I've been using Pocket for practically a decade with zero discernible issues. The Pocket app on iOS also works great.