I was already wondering why development on Omnivore was halted…
This isn’t good news at all for Omnivore users. It made me legitimately consider switching away from my self-hosted Wallabag instance because everything looked so sleek and promising; in terms of read-it-later apps, it really held the promise of the big next thing (as far as that can apply to such a “simple” category).
I’m not sure if articles read aloud is the thing that Omnivore users are looking for, per se. Ah well, they’ll know why they did it…
On a side note:
> All Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.
Just me or is that extremely short notice? That’s in 2 weeks…
theschmed 3 hours ago [-]
> Just me or is that extremely short notice? That’s in 2 weeks…
It is not just you.
darrmit 41 minutes ago [-]
Ugh this is the only read-it-later service I ever found that "stuck". It was so simple and good. This sucks.
cstuder 8 minutes ago [-]
I came from Instapaper after their price hike to Omnivore and went back to Instapaper. I felt that Omnivore was over-complicated with their "every folder is a filter" structure. Instapaper feels much more straightforward.
freeqaz 18 minutes ago [-]
Damn they're giving under 3 weeks to export before you lose all of your data? That's insane! If I were on an extended vacation and missed this, my data would be gone when I get back.
They _really_ should increase that to be longer! Switch to read-only, but give at least 3-6 months to export. That's crazy otherwise
bberenberg 30 minutes ago [-]
For what it’s worth I’ve contacted them to see if they would be open to handing over the hosted version. The current answer is no, based in part on wanting to delete user data. I suggested I could take it without data and users could reimport their data post handover. If you’d like to see this happen send them an email and voice your support.
thylacine222 3 hours ago [-]
this really sucks, it's by far the best reader app out there. Hoping that people will be able to figure out a straightforward way to do self-hosting, because I would be willing to use the app as it is right now forever.
0x6c6f6c 2 hours ago [-]
Except on Android, where you couldn't even tag saved articles.
I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to do migrate back.
thylacine222 2 hours ago [-]
I seem to be able to tag articles, do you not have an "Edit Labels" option in the article menu? Regardless, they definitely were lagging on Android development, but it was still finished enough to use it. There's even a version that supports pagination: https://github.com/tent4kel/omnivore/releases/
jamil7 1 hours ago [-]
I built and ran a read it later app in the iOS app store for a few years as a side project. I found it pretty difficult to monetise and the support burden got to me. I eventually just pulled it from the store as I was getting emails and reviews and felt I couldn’t really give it the attention it needed. I saw quite a few competitors coming and going over the years, either through acquisitions or developers just losing interest. It seems like a difficult thing to make work sustainably.
dod9er 4 hours ago [-]
Too bad... I also really liked it and used. Seems like I go for wallabag again. Maybe it will be possible to selfhost omnivore at some point in time ?!
It's not a great self-hosting option, tbh, depends on a lot of Google services and the support for it in the apps can be finicky.
xz18r 2 hours ago [-]
The license allows forking, become a hero!
raybb 3 hours ago [-]
Ugh anyone have a rundown of how good the parsing is on wallabag vs instapaper vs pocket (or something else)?
Carbon1603 2 hours ago [-]
So, where to go next?
paulmorabito 1 hours ago [-]
I'd love an easier self hosted option too.
In the meantime, if you are in the Apple world then Goodlinks is a privacy friendly option for saving articles to read later.
I haven't found a decent alternative that can add articles via email like Omnivore. My workaround is to get the RSS link from Substack and add these to my RSS reader that I self host (FreshRSS).
samantha-wiki 22 minutes ago [-]
I’m looking into migrating to FreshRSS from omnivore now.
This isn’t good news at all for Omnivore users. It made me legitimately consider switching away from my self-hosted Wallabag instance because everything looked so sleek and promising; in terms of read-it-later apps, it really held the promise of the big next thing (as far as that can apply to such a “simple” category).
I’m not sure if articles read aloud is the thing that Omnivore users are looking for, per se. Ah well, they’ll know why they did it…
On a side note:
> All Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.
Just me or is that extremely short notice? That’s in 2 weeks…
It is not just you.
They _really_ should increase that to be longer! Switch to read-only, but give at least 3-6 months to export. That's crazy otherwise
I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to do migrate back.
It's just not documented well.
In the meantime, if you are in the Apple world then Goodlinks is a privacy friendly option for saving articles to read later.
I haven't found a decent alternative that can add articles via email like Omnivore. My workaround is to get the RSS link from Substack and add these to my RSS reader that I self host (FreshRSS).
Does [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/165nnk6/comment...) solve the email ingestion issue for you?
Ugh, it was so good!
Self-hosting it seems quite complicated, though. I really hope somebody will step up and offer a hosted version of it.