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I'm one of the first paying customers of Pocket.

Alas, their quality has been going down recently. The most important feature - keeping the location inside an article between app invocations, is not working. For long articles, if I stop in the middle and want to resume later, there's a 80% chance that Pocket will happily set me right in the beginning.

Besides, their rendering for articles with code sucks, so I almost always use "web view", a decision Pocket also forgets every other time.

So I end up using Pocket as a convenient keyboard-shortcut to save articles, but on my phone actually open them into Chrome, which has no problem remembering the location in a tab.

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Instapaper is annoyingly great at remembering where you left off in an article. I was a Pocket user too (though not a paid one) but I switched to Instapaper because I felt like Pocket was losing focus. I'm a happy paid Instapaper user now.

What do you mean by annoyingly great?

Not OP but maybe you want to restart from the beginning at times because you've forgotten what you had read.

Yep, that's what I meant. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word annoying as there's no way for the app to know that and it's simply working as intended.

I went from Pocket to Instapaper as well. For me, it was because the Pocket web client was getting progressively worse with every update. (Huge floating navbar in a reading view -- seriously? And the UI was dog-slow.)

There's no WP app for Pocket so I use a 3rd-party app called Poki and it's amazing. Has no issue remembering where you stopped on various articles.

Geez, I was trying to figure out what you'd do with a Wordpress app for Pocket, and then it hit me.

Poki is pretty great on a Surface, too. I actually prefer it over the official iOS Pocket app.

I've had the same experiences and figured that if I was only using it as bookmarking service then I might as well completely migrate to Pinboard (and various supporting apps). I've been happy with my decision.

Shameless plug: I made drumroll.io to simply bookmark and/or send links from pc to phone (drumroll.io/app). It does not require authentication and has chrome extension (drumroll.io/chrome) as well.

I currently use Pushbullet, are there any reasons why I should switch to drumroll.io?

dl'd pushbullet, works great, thanks!

No particular reason. But I always wanted to push messages even when I am not logged in. So from any computer I can send myself the link/text. I can push to my friends too as long as I know their Phone Name.

I registered my phone but the link to the download page doesn't seem to be working: https://www.drumroll.io/drumroll.io/app

How do you handle security. By allowing anybody to push arbitrary links/text to your phone aren't you opening a vector of attack?

It kinda mimics the email. Anyone who has your email can send you messages. You are right about spamming, I am working with external tools to block spams and bots.

I will fix the link. Thanks for point out.

Similar impressions here. My e-book reader (Kobo Aura) has a native feature for synchronization with a Pocket account, so I end up using Pocket as a glorified bookmarking (and content fetching) service.

Geez, I've been using it for some time now and never had a clue it was supposed to save your position in an article. I just use it as a convenient way to transfer links between my devices.

Funny I switched from instapaper to pocket because it was new and shinier. So far I like it more and have not noticed any UX issues. I'll keep an eye out now thanks

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