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I was a heavy user of Instapaper and switched to Pocket.

The reading interface for Instapaper is much better. Pocket has more clients, browser plug ins, etc so you can take it anywhere (When I switched Instapaper Android wasn't available).

Both are lame when bookmarking things like github repos.

I really want these services to open up their engine so that I can write a plug in for displaying bookmarked gists or repos.

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I run a rival site to these. Can you email me a description of what this kind of plugin would do? (support@pinboard.in)

Oh, I didn't realize Pinboard had a Read Later feature. I thought it was just a bookmarking service. I finally found some info about Read Later on your website, though I didn't see it where I first looked (in your FAQ). So this is different than your Archival feature, yea?

It's just a status flag you can set on a bookmark. It's useful for saving stuff you want to pretend you're going to read, then will never look at again.

As someone who just logged back in to Instapaper to find a pile of articles 3+ years old, still unread.. You know your business.

I'm slowly making my way through. Thanks so much for your service. It's wonderful.

As someone who is concerned with where Instapaper is heading, how well does your site compete with the likes of Instapaper or Pocket?

Poorly on making things readable, but really well on not going out of business or being bought by anyone.

sort of different use cases. I love pinboard and use it heavily, but it does nothing for the reading experience afaik (that's not a knock, i love pinboard, but it doesn't do what pocket or instapaper do for making anything more readable).

I've not used pinboard, but I think a good feature would include a time lapse... I mean I bookmark something then categorize it, then its in a certain folder, and I forget about it, after 3 or so months, I would like to be reminded about it.

You should check out wallabag. It's a FOSS alternative to these services. Can self-hosted it or use framabag hosting already set up for you. Build upon it as much as you want!

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