Ugh, and that only months after Omnivore (a really great FOSS "read it later" app) shut down.

The one constant of "save your favorite articles and websites offline, forever" apps seems to be that they're... very much not forever.

In my view, this not being a native, interoperable feature of web browsers is a failure of the web. I'll be able to listen to a podcast episode I've downloaded as an MP3 forever, and the same goes for ePub books (if they don't have DRM in any case) – so why is the same so hard for blog posts and articles?

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gnulinux 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

I just Ctrl+P print the reader mode output to PDF. Takes 1 second. I've been doing it for years and it works perfectly. I have articles I saved from a decade ago in Dropbox. I'm honestly surprised people use a whole app for such a trivial feature, but yeah it's fair to have special needs. For me, Firefox reader mode is all I need, and you can just save it as PDF.

	▲	lxgr 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		PDFs are the opposite of what I personally want from an archival format. I primarily want to be able to read the article on any screen size (on the go, when there's no Internet connection), and PDF falls flat for that. Even on my computer, not many pages have a nice print stylesheet, and the result frequently looks horrible/nothing like the original page.

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eviks 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

You'll be able to read an article you save locally forever as well, that's the easy part

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lxgr 7 months ago | parent [-]

Yes, but saving it locally is the hard/unergonomic part.

There's the great SingleFile extension, but it doesn't always work, and it's a bit of a pain to do on mobile compared to just sending a page off to a reading app via the share sheet on iOS.

	▲	eviks 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		"unergonomic" exactly! But that's the same for an mp3 podcast episode! You can't easily save one on a mobile to auto-sync with your other computers and also allow highighting/tagging/syncing playback position/favorites. Ergonomic is precisely the core value proposition of all these services, "dumb" save has been possible for any such content since forever.