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I recently switched from Pocket to a self-hosted instance of Wallabag (https://wallabag.org https://wallabag.org) and I've been very happy with it. One thing I
by joekrill 10y ago
I recently switched from Pocket to a self-hosted instance of Wallabag (https://wallabag.org https://wallabag.org) and I've been very happy with it.
One thing I've noticed with these types of services is that they quickly start becoming intrusive and annoying. Ads are the obvious annoyance. But as an additional example, the Pocket extension injects code into certain sites (HackerNews being one) so that I can "more easily" "pocket" posted articles directly from the listing page itself. And in fairness it can be disabled, but it's enabled by default. And with things like this, I just find that simpler is better. I don't need all these extra features being pushed and modifying my browsing experience "by default".
- dangoldin 10y agoI had some issues getting the Wallabag app working on a smartphone. Have you used that successfully?
- joekrill 10y agoI've had no problems at all. I use it primarily on my Android tablet (Nvidia Shield K1), and occasionally on my phone (also Android, Moto X Pure 2015). I haven't noticed any problems. I use it for both reading and adding using the built-in sharing functionality in Android. For setup I simply set my URL, username, and password in the settings and used the "Autofill" option to handle populating the rest of the settings, and it works great. I'm running the server itself in a Docker container, with connections proxied through Nginx (also in a Docker container).
- nicosomb 10y agoHey dangoldin, Don't hesitate to ping us on gitter.im/wallabag/wallabag if you still have any problems.
- nicosomb 10y agoThank you (I'm in the wallabag core team). About "the Pocket extension injects code into certain sites", can you give me more details please?