[rchaud]

Used Pocket for ~10 years, and I know Readwise is superior.

Here's the issue I had with Pocket, and one I'm sure you will run into as well. Around 2018 or so, I noticed Pocket stopped going to the offline version of the article, and would load the awful full web page, with ads and popups and everything. I would have to keep my phone in airplane mode to force Pocket to default to the offline article. I imagine they did this due to complaints from site owners.

Pocket at its peak probably had millions of users more than Readwise does. How will you handle similar requests when you reach that kind of scale?

FYI, my system now is to simply "save to PDF" in a labeled folder and keep devices in sync with Syncthing Fork.

[MattDemers]

It depends on the site; I've actually had good rapport with Pocket's team on bringing up sites that don't work, and getting them fixed.

[rchaud]

In my case, there was no issue with the sites. Pocket could archive them in offline mode just fine. It would just choose to send me to the online version, if it detected a network connection.

It wasn't a technical glitch, more like a dark pattern IMO.