[gxqoz]

Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium.

I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2 years. Meanwhile, here's a non-exhaustive list of major, basic features that don't work: -Searching my own archive. This works maybe 75% of the time on articles I am 100% sure are in there. -Having a "permanent copy" of articles. This is Pocket's version of "full self driving," in that it doesn't mean what you think it means. -The ability to do any sort of advanced search. Pocket's web app has had a regression for exact match searching or multiple word searching for the longest time. I've raised numerous tickets with support and never get any meaningful responses. -Reliability of text to speech. There have been weeks-long spells where the better TTS voices just don't work. -Highlight exports or really any decent API interactions.

I'm guessing that this software is just on life support now. I'd love to hear from someone actually at Mozilla on what's happening with this software. What's been the headcount on this project?

Anyway, anyone on Hacker News is almost certainly served better by Readwise. Matter also looked promising but they didn't have an Android app so I never bought in.

[chrisdbanks]

Ditto. Recently moved from Pocket to Readwise and it's so much better. Readwise also supports spaced repetition for your highlights. Pocket could have been so much more. It could have surface articles I'd like using a Spotify style algorithm, it could have been so amazing, but Mozilla have killed it. I don't understand how they're so incompetent.

[diarrhea]

Saving offline copies simply… doesn’t work. It’s stuck at “preparing” perpetually, every time. That’s with me having a Premium subscription! Search being poor is one thing, but at least it sometimes works. Offline saving is one of the flagship features, and it doesn’t work, and hasn’t in probably two years.

I’m too baffled to be mad about this.

[gxqoz]

By the way, I'm curious if there are any Pocket communities anywhere. Readwise, for instance, has an active Discord. I haven't been able to find anything for Pocket, which is perhaps telling.

[dredmorbius]

I'd gone poking around on The Site That Is On Strike recently and discovered that both /r/pocket and /r/getpocket are either on strike or had been closed by admins, it's not clear which.

That said, yes, curiously little community around Pocket.