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You aren't missing anything. It was just a PR failure that users here won't forgive.

wolverine876 5y ago
It's a user failure, IMHO.
grey_earthling 5y ago
> a PR failure Warning: puns … Yes, in the sense that it's not open source and therefore you can't make a pull request on it. Seriously, the server part of Pocket is closed-source, and that's why I'm suspicious of it. I don't trust that it's operating in my interests. Teach a man to fish and he'll thank you. Hang around all the time offering him some fish you caught that's totally free to you but don't worry it's really good fish and you'll love it why don't you try it, and he'll start to think you're a bit fishy. And I don't understand why Mozilla would buy a closed-source service in order to compete with the open-source Wallabag. It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become.
- 3np 5y ago
  When Pocket was acquired, it was with the intention of open-sourcing the entire stack, including the backend. As you can imagine, transforming an in-house bootstrapped startup software not originally made with anything but a single closed deployment in mind is not trivial. The intention is still there and they have continuously made more and more parts of the backend public, as can be seen on their GH profile. There's little in terms of docs but step by step they seem to be getting there. https://github.com/Pocket https://github.com/Pocket
- _abox 5y ago
  > It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become. I've been looking to put words to what's going wrong at Mozilla recently but you captured this perfectly.

It's a user failure, IMHO.

> a PR failure Warning: puns … Yes, in the sense that it's not open source and therefore you can't make a pull request on it. Seriously, the server part of Pocket is closed-source, and that's why I'm suspicious of it. I don't trust that it's operating in my interests. Teach a man to fish and he'll thank you. Hang around all the time offering him some fish you caught that's totally free to you but don't worry it's really good fish and you'll love it why don't you try it, and he'll start to think you're a bit fishy. And I don't understand why Mozilla would buy a closed-source service in order to compete with the open-source Wallabag. It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become.

3np 5y ago
When Pocket was acquired, it was with the intention of open-sourcing the entire stack, including the backend. As you can imagine, transforming an in-house bootstrapped startup software not originally made with anything but a single closed deployment in mind is not trivial. The intention is still there and they have continuously made more and more parts of the backend public, as can be seen on their GH profile. There's little in terms of docs but step by step they seem to be getting there. https://github.com/Pocket https://github.com/Pocket
_abox 5y ago
> It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become. I've been looking to put words to what's going wrong at Mozilla recently but you captured this perfectly.