Hello!
I am/was a big fan of Pocket. Easy to use, a great place to stash long reads to read at a later date, a mobile app that would allow me to read content offline and a pipeline of new articles that i might find interesting. It was a good thing, so good in fact that I want to continue to have something like it as part of my browsing.
I do not want to rake over peoples concerns and complaints - this could be a positive thing, a great opportunity to use the open web and see what is out there and find a solution that best fits peoples needs.
I need to pull together three main elements:
- New content
- Mobile app with offline reading
- A place to collect the articles together
I am relatively lucky in that I am self hosting services some services and can self host the main web page article store part of the service. I looked at Wallabag, but that seemed to need a domain but I am happy to run it local (lower cost/effort). Shiori is nice, but the mobile offline reading part had a few UX issues.
I am currently using Karakeep - the add-on for Fx desktop is easy to use and the (self hosted) platform is really nice. Yet to try the mobile app, but am tracking a bug for availability of a .apk.
As for content, I welcome any thoughts around Flipboard. Seems like a nice service (they like the fediverse, which is good to see)
Keen to hear what ideas others have - lets learn from each other and go see what is out there.