While I was not looking Mozilla has killed Pocket (aka. "read later") without having sent me a notice and now my data is gone (not that I had a lot).

Since Pocket was one of the main reasons I bought a Kobo ebook reader this spring, I'm somewhat annoyed.

But Kobo replaced Pocket with Instapaper, where I apparently even have an account I have not used since 2012 :D

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

https://www.kobo.com/blog/kobos-summer-2025-update-on-new-features-and-fixes

#Mozilla #Kobo #Pocket #GetPocket #Instapaper #ebooks #OurIncredibleJourney

With Mozilla's #Pocket shutting down (articles are already unavailable, exports can be retrieved through 8 October 2025, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250927204616/https://getpocket.com/home), I've exported the list of URLs I'd logged with the service.

One of my longstanding gripes was that there was no way for me to get a total of the articles I'd saved.

(There ... were other gripes.)

I now know: 30,735.

In an ideal world, this would have been a useful library of references. I'd tagged many of these (including, eventually, adopting a convention of tagging by archive date which Pocket surely must've known somewhere in its data schema, but petulantly hid from its users), through a loose but somewhat controlled vocabulary influenced in part by both my general interests and some familiarity with existing library ontologies, classifications, and subject headings.

I'm kicking around what to do with this archive. One question of course is how many of the links have since rotted (I suspect a high percentage). I've got a few leads on readability-rendering (including a bash script invoking JS ... somehow ... I've got to look at). Tracking down archived copies, and spinning up a media server, would also be handy.

#Mozilla #GetPocket #Shutdown #Libraries #KFC #KnowledgeManagement #WhyIsContentManagementSoShiteStill

Absolut schade, dass #Mozilla #pocket (#getpocket) einstellt. Seit gefühlt 10 Jahren eine meiner Lieblings-Apps. Vor allem die Offline-Nutzung war als Zug-Pendler immer ein großer Vorteil.
Jetzt teste ich mal #Raindrop. Auch um meine Apps etwas zu verringern bzw. zu konzentrieren.

Eure Tipps?

I made a bun app to grab all data from Pocket, including full-text of articles, using Pocket's private GraphQL API: https://github.com/jnv/pocket-archive

There's still a week to go, so perhaps it'll help someone.

#GetPocket #Pocket

With Mozilla shutting down Pocket, folks are calling for open-sourcing it. There's this “pocket-monorepo” project which seems to contain the majority of server code? https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-monorepo

Some parts are missing, notably the parser, but I've found it useful for reverse engineering their GraphQL API, particularly the public API proxy.
Anyone can confirm what else is missing?

#GetPocket #Pocket #GetPocketGoingAway