[jandrese]

Is there a post somewhere explaining why they are shutting down? Did they just run out of money? Was it being run by a single guy who is tired of maintaining it?

[ksherlock]

There is. Previously on HN:

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

[jandrese]

Thanks. The banner on the linked website offered no hints whatsoever.

After digging through a couple blog posts:

> While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

They ran out of money.

[saintfire]

Funny. I loathed pocket and how they felt it needed to be enabled by default and required going to about config to fully deintegrate.

Never heard about fakespot and it sounds like a great tool; especially if it ran locally so it didn't need a monthly fee..

[PaulHoule]

A lot of people liked it but I thought it was "thoroughly pizzled" [1] and I was resentful about yet another unwanted product shoved down my throat. I guess I'm used to it when Microsoft is doing it but it just seemed Firefox should have done better.

[1] https://scatter.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/thoroughly-pizzled-...