Someone who knows me very well often tells me, "Hey you are like a machine! No feelings, nothing" At the same time the person also tells, "you are sentimental" I think, probably, more influenced by the "it is the best of times, it is the worst times" quote of Dickens.
Well, the reason I bring this up is, though I don't care about products getting killed and services getting shutdown, I am still reeling with sadness over the demise of Google Reader and Pocket.
(Also the algo change and as a result the user behavior on the platform. Twitter used to be a gold mine for me to discover and come across a lot of interesting articles)
I blame their demise to my digital addiction to Twitter, Insta and Youtube reels.
If only they had been around, I would have been spending more time reading rather than wasting time.
Anyways, sometime back, I found raindrop.io as the alternate to Pocket. Even exported the pocket articles to Raindrop.
Somehow, never got to read the articles or use them. Nope, it is not that Twitter or Insta was the reason.
I just felt the UI/UX was off. Just couldn't put a finger on it.
Thankfully, recently came across Instapaper. Interestingly, it is easy to add the articles. Easy on the eye and have been slowly back to reading.
Oh and also they give 3 month free trial to premium if you export articles from Pocket.
How I wish, Mozilla had open sourced pocket which could be run locally.
Still I feel there are no discovery or recommendation services like the way Pocket did.
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