Personally, I am and always was very put off by Wallabag's design. It seems permanently stuck in the 2010s default Bootstrap era.

There was and technically still is Omnivore (https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore), but it got aquired by ElevenLabs last year and the official instance got shut down. Shiori (https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori) also comes to mind, but I think that's about it.

As for closed source solutions, I'd say Readwise Reader (https://readwise.io/read) actually innovated a little bit for the first time in over a decade by catering to power users, but I didn't use it often enough to justify a perpetual $10/month subscription (no free tier what so ever).

Nowadays I just use Obsidian's web clipper.

Maybe https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore. And there are several bookmark managers like https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep, https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden, https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire.

A fairly new alternative to Wallabag is Readeck. Easily self hosted and comes with great API integration. And fully FOSS.

https://www.readeck.org

Wallabag 2.6.1 (released earlier this year) has improved stability, better article parsing via Readability, and supports EPUB/PDF export, though self-hosting still requires some technical know-how.

I tried to install it recently to a linux container running on proxmox. I gave up after half an hour because it requires a ton of PHP dependencies and there's no instructions or script provided to install them. I guess if you use the docker version it should be easier, but that wasn't an option for me.

I tried a year ago and then stopped after few days because it couldn't save properly reddit pages (new design or old design, does not matter).

From my experience it had the exact same behavior as the "Reading mode" feature from browsers. Which was not great overall.

No clue if there is something better than that though.