Pocket park in the dark.
Biomedical and Electrical Engineer with interests in information theory, evolution, genetics, abstract mathematics, microbiology, big history, IndieWeb, mnemonics, and the entertainment industry including: finance, distribution, representation
Since it's not covered in the primary group of Pocket Casts, Castro, or Overcast which are the defacto kings for the past year or so, I'll mention that I've been using AntennaPod for a while now and enjoying it quite a bit. (Also, if you're not using huffduffer.com, you're just missing out on life.)
@CodingItWrong @jeremywsherman @wookiee @davedelong I keep meaning to install Wallabag which is an indieweb-esque open source project that's a Pocket replacement. Perhaps that's your cup of tea? https:/
@Chronotope I just got into a beta app for Pocket on android that reads articles... #robotsreadingisstrange
For the syndicated portfolio, you might want to take a peek at the PressForward plugin for WordPress [http:/
As an example, compare:
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to
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This is beneficial as you can syndicate (POSSE) the post with your own URL to Facebook, Twitter, et al. and folks who click to read will be sent to your site for a moment before being forwarded on to the original. Thus you get a ping and the original outlet also gets a ping (as well as the advertising revenue for it.) And if, for any reason, the original outlet goes out of business, gets sold, or disappears, you've got a word-for-word copy of your original and can simply un-forward it so that it can appear on your site as it was originally published. Naturally if you prefer and the outlet doesn't stipulate otherwise, you could publish the original to your site and not forward it (or even forward it for an exclusivity window of time pre-agreed with the original publisher.)
Additionally, if you're using Brid.gy for backfeed, anyone who comments on your POSSE copies will have their commentary sent to your site. While others won't necessarily be able to see the commentary (if you're forwarding the URL to the publisher's original), at least you'll be aware of it and can reply to it and get your own replies in return. I suspect that in the future brid.gy may be able to scrape commentary based on the syndicated URL so that your personal version aggregates commentary from the publisher's original as well as mentions of it on Facebook, Twitter, et al.
There are still some missing pieces I'd like to see in such a workflow for journalists, but it's slowly and surely getting somewhere.
(I've written about other parts of PressForward before at http:/
Jeffrey, I came across your site while looking for some opensource OPML tech (thanks for the plugin by the way) and ran across this post on Wallabag. I too had a similar problem/use case and wanted to get out of Pocket so I could better own my data. I ran across the PressForward WP plugin which does a lot of fun stuff towards this end. I've written up some thoughts about it when I did it. You might find them useful if you haven't settled on a solution for yourself.
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@wordpressdotcom @Pocket I wrote this for you: Feed Reader Revolution http:/
@PressFwd And it looks like it's not a day too soon: https:/
Colin and David, I've been a long time Feedly user myself and certainly feel your pain. (And in particular, I'm a bit irked that I can't seem to get Feedly to discover alternate RSS Feeds being broadcast from my site to provide consumers with more options about what content they'd like to consume from my site, see also: http:/
While slowly hacking away at IndieWeb philosophies, one of the big issues I've always hated was using an outside feed reader that wasn't directly integrated into my own site. I've played around a lot with woodwind.xyz which has some great IndieWeb features, but doesn't have the massive developer team behind it that Feedly does.
Recently while doing some alternate research I also came across the WordPress plugin PressForward that was originally designed for journalists and academics, but in short is actually a built-in RSS feed reader that you can self-host as part of your WordPress install. I've been loving its general functionality and also use it somewhat like a self-hosted version of Pocket/InstaPaper as well, so it serves multiple uses. While it may not have everything that Feedly does, it's incredibly functional, and better, it's open on Github with lots of documentation, so you could potentially add the features you want. I've written a bit more about it (including some useful links) here if you'd like to explore it a bit more: http:/
Like both of you, I'm always eager to hear of other options should you come across them.
Checking again it appears that they're all still there, so it's not the case that even if they were set to flush via a later chron job that that event got triggered (or certainly not within the last two weeks).
I'm tempted to cut the storage time for feeds back to one month which will put them well within the time frame to try to get rid of them that way instead.
Out of curiosity as I don't see it documented, when the system flushes items longer than the "Months to retrieve and retain feed items", does it delete everything that hasn't been drafted, or does it keep items on which actions (star, comment, nominated/drafted) have been initiated upon? I ask this because for those using PressForward as a self-hosted version of webapps like Pocket/InstaPaper (which both you and @mAAdhaTTah appear to), this would be a very useful feature without needing to take the additional steps of nominating/drafting the particular post. Further, does marking as "read" save the date/time as it may be useful to have this data? (I looked around and didn't see any fields which would have indicated this as a potential feature.)
@geerlingguy Sorry Jeff, you're right that it should auto re-direct to your page as if it were a bookmark and the attribution should be different even in the case that anyone besides me should be able to see it. I've been making some changes to the code for those types of "I read this" posts since mid-December in an effort to own a personal version of something like Pocket or InstaPaper on my personal site.
Thanks for the note/error report.
@Chronotope Okay, so I've spent the majority of my time since your tweet playing with (read: drooling over) @pressfwd.
It is awesome and almost exactly what I've been looking for for ages without knowing it. I think that I'm not only an immediate convert, but an evangelist.
In fact, not just hours earlier in the day, I'd made this comment on the WordPress Reader Refresh (at https:/
"Some nice visual changes in this iteration. Makes it one of the most visually pretty feed readers out there now while still maintaining a relatively light weight.
I still wish there were more functionality pieces built into it like the indie-reader Woodwind.xyz or even Feedly. While WordPress in some sense is more creator oriented than consumption oriented, I still think that not having a more closely integrated reader built into it is still a drawback to the overall WordPress platform."
From the sound of your tweets and how I see it laid out, in some sense I suspect you're personally almost also using it as a built in bookmark or to-read app like Pocket or InstaPaper? This is almost exactly the type of "off label" use case I'd like to bend it to--though it doesn't really require that much bending given its current architecture. Are you displaying all the items you've read/commented on publicly (and where is it?) or are you just using the comment functionality and the nominated portions as a private "I've read this list" on your back end?
I've been thinking about the topic for a while since just before InstaPaper's acquisition by Pinterest and recently written a few things including about Owning My Online Reading Status Updates: http:/
I've even thought about using the Wallabag self-hosted version of something similar to this, but I'd prefer something more closely integrated with WordPress and PressForward has almost everything one could dream for.
If you have a few minutes next week to chat via phone about some of these uses, I have a feeling you could expand your user base a bit as a result. I also know of a few folks working on similar WP-based readers who might be encouraged to merge their work into your much more polished project.
My thanks to the whole team for not only a beautiful plugin, but for some well written and spectacularly documented code on Github!
@IFTTT It was via web (Chome browser, current standard version) from https:/
@rikmende Rick, I can't speak to stripping out your prior history of past posts, but I have used a quirky hack in the past to get around Facebook's save-for-later functionality which seems to be designed to keep you in Facebook 24/7. It'll work for your "saved" articles moving forward.
You can use this IFTTT recipe: https:/
To have it work, instead of bookmarking with Facebook's native interface, just repost/share the link/article you want to save to your own Facebook feed. If you don't want to share it with everyone, just mark the reshare as shared only with yourself and then only you would be able to see it. The IFTTT recipe will then strip the URL out of your shared post and push it to Pocket.
Note that if you POSSE to Facebook, you'll also see shared URLs for your own posts appear in Pocket from then on, but you can delete/mark as read all of those quickly enough. Or you can favorite them and push them to your public-facing Pocket shares (which are also subscribable) and consider them a form of POSSE to Pocket! Win-Win!